More Can-kicking to Delay the Issue; a Popular Florida Tactic
A popular delaying tactic to avoid action used by so called “leaders” is to request funds and time to “study” the issue, often to discover what is already known many times over. This has […]
Sorry History of Valdosta Sewage Mismanagement
As we understand it, Valdosta was not only lax in preventing sewage spills but was also remiss in monitoring contamination downstream. Thanks to John Quarterman and Merrillee Malwitz Jipson, finally the city began to inform […]
Bottled Water Most Concentrated Source for Microplastics Ingestion
Of all the negatives from bottled water, and they are many, a new one has emerged which may be among the most serious of all; ingesting microplastics. The following statement is from PNAS: […]
Politics, Sea Levels, Septics and Florida
We have written about Santa Fe River floods distributing E.coli bacteria from flooded septic tanks and this article reveals that rising seas are doing the same thing on a large scale along the coasts. The […]
More Information On PFAs
Of interest in the article below is the link to the Environmental Working Group”s (EWG) testing of home filters for the toxic PFAs. There is an abundance of conflicting information regarding filters and how well […]
Failure to Protect
OSFR has a long history of fighting not only small private water companies, huge corporations such as Nestle and BlueTriton, as well as agencies such as the DEP and the Forest Service. Even though […]
Corn, With John Oliver
Recent high corn prices have resulted in many acres of native pastures being plowed up for the first time in order to raise corn. Since corn is a water-intensive crop, new irrigation acres draw down […]
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