Want clean water? Follow the money
Yep, money. Big Sugar has enough that they give to all candidates who have a chance to get elected. That way their backsides are covered no matter what and they get stable (high) sugar prices […]
Poll: Floridians willing to pay for clean water; coalitions: here’s how they should do it
The idea is good and the numbers may be right for the Indian River Lagoon, but expanded to all Florida, the numbers would be much higher. Only septics and wastewater are targeted here […]
Polluters given free ride under guise of virus difficulties
It’s all about money. Read the complete article here at APNews. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: once taken, it cannot be brought back © Jim Tatum […]
Why put up with monitoring? We should demand a cure.
Why do the people of Florida put up with merely monitoring our ills? We should be spending time and money on cleaning up the mess and hitting the sources. FDEP knows the sources but is […]
Poe to be closed for five months.
Poe may be a second-magnitude spring and the largest in Alachua County, but over the years our water managers have not done their jobs to protect it, and it ceased flowing for the […]
Chemical Used to Line Plastic Bottles Is Linked to Premature Death
As if we didn’t have enough reasons to boot greedy water grabbers Seven Springs/Nestle/Ginnie here is one more. OSFR is going all out to stop them. We need all the help we can get, please […]
Eve Samples and Howard L. Simon: Government should be required to warn Floridians when water is toxic
To preserve the Florida lifestyle we cherish, dependent as it is on the quality of our water, and to protect the health of our families, policy-makers must effectively tackle this urgent problem. That means addressing […]
Bob Knight: The next fatality in Florida’s springs pandemic?
Keep in mind that the ills of the Rainbow River are those of the Santa Fe, Ichetucknee, Suwannee and most of Florida’s rivers. Bob Knight tells us who can save the Rainbow: “Florida’s governor […]
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