CR’s Guide to Better, Safer Drinking Water
Following is the most comprehensive report on drinking water that we have seen. Safe drinking water should be a right but it is not guaranteed and not in the USA. We have seen in Florida […]
Excess Nutrients a Problem in the Midwest and In Florida
Intense corn, wheat and soybean production in the Midwest has caused huge amounts of fertilizer to be carried down the streams and rivers to the Mississippi, and also to enter the groundwater. Excess nitrates are […]
Human-caused Excess Nutrients Feed Seaweed
As with red tide and toxic algae, excess nutrients are suspected as a cause in the recent huge masses of seaweed occurring in our oceans. Some of those come from Florida rivers and perhaps […]
New Book Outlines the Dangers of Over-use of Fertilizers
Dan Egan is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. A two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times […]
Blame Goes to More Than Feds
All this hub-bub simply because the State of Florida refuses to keep its waters clean enough for manatees to live in them. Pollution is far outgaining environment restoration. The feds are not the only […]
IFAS Confirms Its Lack of Credibility
We have pointed out the problems with IFAS and fertilizer with its connections to the fertilizer industry leaving it soundly embarrassed and rightly so. The taxpayer-funded flagship of Florida’s universities should be above such shameful, […]
Not So Good News About Reclaimed Water
Desperate for more water, authorities resort too often to reclaimed water when they should reduce pumping permits. Read the original article here in WFSU News. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river […]
Only In Florida
If it were not for the wasted money, killed wildlife and the injustice of protecting polluters, Ron DeSantis’ attitude toward toxic algae would be hilarious. Seen in the light of reality, it is sickening. […]
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