<p><span style="color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Metro Atlanta started the week under the threat of a court order that could have shut off its main <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/ruling-changes-politics-of-southern-water-dispute/bdc57bf16b5a449682aa811cfa714cec" title="article">water</a> source for 3 million people, making Georgia the needy neighbor in legal negotiations with neighboring Alabama and Florida.</span></p>