Trying to Trick Mother Nature
We have posted multiple times on this ill-conceived project. We say ill-conceived because water that is moved from point A to point B, will be missed at point A. We explain the simple cause of […]
Write Plain-English Rules to Save Florida’s Natural Springs | Editorial
The 2016 bill referred to below was the Florida Springs and Aquifer Protection Act and highly touted by legislators and Tallahassee decision makers, but not by environmentalists as said by David Simmons in this article: […]
Manatee Monitoring Needs Volunteers
Stacie Greco has sent out the following information from the Springs Forum held last week: Alachua County Environmental Protection Department is looking for volunteers to help monitor the manatee population this winter! Volunteers will […]
No Longer Can We Blame “Natural Phenomenon.”
It is so obvious that we can not take care of our own water. Our own water just gets worse and worse, and we symbolically try to skim the toxic algae off the top, and […]
Trash Talk-
Well, this is not an entirely new idea, since our very own Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson has been spotted wearing plastic water bottles at public meetings. But rest assured, unlike Rob Greenfield, these […]
Manatee Deaths, Algae Blooms Suggest Florida Waters Getting Worse, Not Better | Our View
Members of the Blue Green Algae Task Force, appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, who created the panel in April 2019, were asked: “What grade would you give to state lawmakers for their efforts to adopt […]
The Water Is Not There.
It is a question of not “if” but “when” this will happen in Florida. Our water controllers probably have not heard about this, but even if they have I assure you they have no concern […]
Low Grade for Algae Efforts
This old news but worth repeating over and over. Repeated enough times, maybe Florida’s citizens will get the message and kick out of office our guilty lawmakers, starting with the governor on down, and vote […]
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