Water Efficiency Ratchet
On June 15, 2014 at 07:14PM Tom at Watery Foundation published the following article: One way to promote efficient water use in Florida could be to adapt to Florida the state of Georgia’s “Flint River […]
Water Is a Side Issue
On 6-11-14 Tom at Watery Foundation published the following article: If you read this blog even sometimes, you have a very unusual degree of interest in water issues. For most people, water problems are incidental to […]
OSFR Signs On to Sierra Club Letter
Our Santa Fe River, Inc. has signed on to a Sierra Club letter, along with 56 other organizations and businesses, asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to disassociate the State of Florida regarding the Chesapeake Bay Clean […]
OSFR Members Attend SRWMD Board Meeting in Cedar Key
OSFR president Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, along with two board members, attended the Governing Board meeting and public hearing in Cedar Key today. The issue of main concern for OSFR and the public was a controversial mega […]
Water Stigmatization
Students polishing Legislative cuspidors, 1962. (Florida State Photographic Archive.) The Florida Legislative chambers once were fully stocked with cuspidors for tobacco-spitting legislators. That became an unacceptable social practice, then was considered a charming recollection, and finally […]
OSFR President Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson Publishes OP Ed in Today’s Gainesville Sun
Sunday, June 8, 2014 OSFR President Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, along with board member Jim Tatum, wrote today, in a special to the Sun, “Where will the gas go?” dealing with the […]
OSFR Files for Petition Over Excessive Water Permit
Our Santa Fe River president, Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, today, on behalf of Our Santa Fe River, filed a petition for Administrative Hearing with the Suwannee River Water Management District to challenge a recent Water Use Permit […]
SRWMD Prepares for Hurricane Season
LIVE OAK, FL, May, 29, 2014 – The Suwannee River Water Management District (District) participated in the 2014 Statewide Hurricane Exercise as part of Hurricane Preparedness Week, May 25-31. In coordination with the Florida Department […]
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