OSFR enthusiastically supports this movement. Indeed, President Mike Roth and board member Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson are founding members of the small group in Gainesville Santa Fe River Bill of Rights (SAFEBOR.) This movement shows great potential […]
The Gainesville Sun’s Cindy Swirko continues to write about the Seven Springs Water Partnership in their bid for pumping millions of gallons of water out of the Floridan aquifer to sell to Nestle for personal […]
Our river is under siege. Seven Springs Water company, a local business which pumps water for Nestlé whose wells are within a few hundred feet of Ginnie Springs, has applied to the Suwannee River Water […]
* Our thanks to Cindy Swirko and the Gainesville Sun for telling the sad story of our springs. That our legislators and leaders are allowing them to die is inexcusable, especially since we have the […]
* Florida’s natural environment is collapsing because our political environment is broken. To fix one, we need to fix the other. Ryan Smart speaks the truth. The disaster that is the abuse of our environment […]
“…the state has failed to go far enough in not only reducing pollution from septic tanks, but also in cutting the contributions from fertilizer use and livestock waste. To really save our springs, […]
* This is serious stuff, this is the truth being told to the people who have the obligation to listen and do their jobs. Our springs and rivers are dying and those who are supposed […]
Clockwise from center on ground, OSFR President Mike Roth, Jaime Bach, Suwannee St. Johns Sierra Club President Whitey Markle, your historian, unknown, Florida Springs Council Executive Director Ryan Smart, unknown. The aim of the protest […]
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