The State of Florida has made a terrible mess of protecting and sustaining its waters, and we are only just beginning to pay the price. Nutrient-fed algae have damaged tourism, more important even than […]
Antics like this are revealing to more and more people the sham that is our water district which is going to desperate lengths to appear worthy of its existence. OSFR board member Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson is […]
The Santa Fe River is endangered by over-pumping of water from the Floridan Aquifer. Credit: Florida Department of Environmental Regulation Well, the Suwannee River Water Management District has received another verbal barrage […]
Rum 138 snagged the premier showing of the new blockbuster movie which documents the killing of Florida’s springs by the very people charged to protect them. Award-winning film maker Oscar Corral was present at the […]
Illustration by Erica Cirino Well, I am old enough to remember Bakelite, a hard, brittle material, usually black, used as knobs and insulators in early electronics. I guess this was the start of […]
We recently posted about the Black Creek water transfer project (“Utilities challenge strategy to raise Keystone Heights lake levels; costs questioned.”) where we stated that the utilities were protesting for the wrong reasons. The […]
What we see here is another disappointment in our struggle to conserve Florida’s fast-depleting water resources. We also see further evidence of what we already know, that DeSantis is nothing but hot air and smoke […]
The sewage, detritus and fertilizers we have been dumping into our coastal waters for decades have created blooms of bad plant life while choking to death the seagrass on which the manatees and other marine life […]
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