Toilet to Tap Is Coming
Reclaimed water has long been used for irrigation purposes but much less often as drinking water. Part of the resistance to the use of potable reclaimed wastewater is the lack of credibility of public water […]
Update on Nestle Lawsuit From FSC
If there is any kind of reasonable justice left in the world, Seven Springs Water Company will lose this case. Our thanks go to Ryan Smart, Doug McLaughlin and the Florida Springs Council for […]
Still More Consequences of Dirty Water: Why We Need the Right to Clean Water Amendment
Florida is handing us dirty water and showing no signs of stopping. Each year our surface and ground water are diminished in quantity and quality and our state does little to reverse this. Our DEP […]
Toxic Algae Increases and Florida Is Losing the Battle
Although our governor has appointed a task force to combat toxic algae, he usually ignores their recommendations. We actually don’t need a task force because the causes for the algae are well known– excess nutrients […]
An Extraordinary Thing In Zephyrhills
Although we have already posted on this news, more and more articles are spreading and indeed it is worthy of more discussing. Trumpeting, perhaps. It is so refreshing to see that municipal water planners […]
Absolutely We Are Not Doing “Just Fine!”
A line on a graph depicting the level of our aquifer drops continuously down, down, and down over the years. DEP employs their best management practices to lessen the nitrates load in our rivers and […]
Humans Have Used Enough Groundwater to Shift Earth’s Tilt
Too much pumping from our groundwater is likely the major problem with our water in Florida as well as in other parts of the country. Florida’s water districts believe that they are obligated to issue […]
Still a Bad Idea
Water transfers rarely work, even less than mitigations, and usually have negative consequences somewhere. The idea here is analogous to those uninformed individuals who say that we might as well bottle water from Ginnie Springs […]
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