This Could Happen In Florida
Florida is on its way to this crisis because of over-pumping and non-existent water discipline. Thanks to Joanne Tremblay for this link. Read the original article here in the Guardian. Comments by OSFR historian Jim […]
This Week on the Santa Fe: Minimum Flow Levels and Waters Journey
2. Movie Night, Friday, July 25 @ 6:00 p.m. at the Florida Springs Welcome Center – 18645 High Springs Main Street, High Springs showing of Waters Journey: Hidden Rivers of Florida. The film follows divers […]
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 […]
News From Florida Springs Council
The planned failures of the MFLs are proof that our state does not plan to restore any of its natural waters, rather they continue to follow the path of allowing the destruction of springs, rivers […]
The System That Moves Water Around the Earth Is off Balance for the First Time in Human History
For those who think we can just slow down our water use and be back where we were years earlier, this article may be a surprise and a disappointment. If we have learned one thing […]
The Hidden Environmental Costs of Food
A new way of looking at food costs includes adding in the cost on the environment for making the food product. Beef, for example, is very damaging to the environment to produce because of the […]
Another Day, Another Dime, er, uh, DEP Meeting
The following letter was sent by the Florida Springs Council. This letter is about the DEP which is holding another public workshop inviting comment about the Outstanding Florida Springs rule. The DEP feels it must […]
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