Dairies and Pollution
Florida fails to protect the aquifer from huge amounts of nitrogen from dairies. OSFR advisor Dr. Bob Knight has done a study on this topic. Read the original article here in the Tampa Bay Times. […]
Water Pollution puts Floridians At Risk of Severe Health Problems
Citizens pay the price of dirty water. Read the complete article here in the Tampa Bay Times. Water pollution puts Floridians at risk of severe health problems Chemicals foul wells used for drinking water and […]
Contamination By Floodwaters
Flooding has become more common and in places not commonly prone to floods. Read the original article here in The Invading Sea. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a […]
FDEP Fights Against Protecting Manatees
This is more about a fight over water than a fight over manatees. The State of Florida has allowed its waterways to become so polluted that the grasses on which manatees feed cannot grow. […]
Article Misses Main Point
Articles like these are extremely frustrating because they leave out the most important information: the preventable causes which our state chooses to ignore. Instead, they spend millions on treating symptoms. Not to say that […]
Our Leaders Have Failed Us
“These interviews and documents, which include thousands of pages of reports dating to the 1970s, showed the state failed to control pollutants for decades, allowing hundreds of Florida waterways to become dangerously polluted.” The sad […]
More Polluted Lakes
For many years this lake received wastewater effluent from nearby Winter Haven. Efforts were made to clean it up, but apparently it is still overloaded with nutrients. Given the fact that Florida has more polluted […]
Titanium Wastewater Spill
Many are aware of a proposed Titanium mine threatening to operate on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp. Recently the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has stepped in to assert the water rights of the […]
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