Successful River Cleanup!
Thanks to all the volunteers who helped make Saturday’s cleanup a huge success. A total of about 314 pounds of nasty trash was pulled out of the river, which […]
Our DEP Needs a Wakeup Call to Reality–
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), overseer and boss of the five water districts, needs to take a step out of the La La Land in which it exists and look at the real […]
Hazardous Waste Being Mixed into Roads
This needs to be banned everywhere and a good place to start is Columbia County and all counties through which the Sant Fe River flows. We cannot imagine any county allowing this material on […]
Blue-green algae are not to be taken lightly
The State of Florida has made a terrible mess of protecting and sustaining its waters, and we are only just beginning to pay the price. Nutrient-fed algae have damaged tourism, more important even than […]
People and springs need rights to clean water
We urge you to sign the petition outlined below, and to ask your friends to do the same. We have found that lawsuits demanding that our water laws be obeyed are often ineffectual, and this […]
“every bit of plastic ever made still exists.”
It gets worse and worse. We remember that our water district just issued a permit renewal to a single-use plastic water bottling company for up to SIX THOSUAND PLASTIC BOTTLES PER MINUTE. Most go […]
ENVIRONMENTAL WIN: Keystone XL pipeline gone
We just almost never win. But here we did and it is big. The oil companies know their time is limited and that may have been a factor also, but most certainly this pipe would […]
More idiocy at SRWMD
The Suwannee River Water Management District (District), as well as other water districts, have mismanaged the water so thoroughly and for so long that they have resorted to science fiction idiocy in their desperation to […]
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