Big Sugar Not So Sweet
Alfonso “Alfy” Fanjul, social friend and heavy contributor to Bill and Hilary Clinton and Marco Rubio. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have bought the Fanjuls their way in the sugar industry. Alfy was Bill’s campaign […]
Everyone Knows the Answer
Water management district spokespersons, legislators, politicians, industry representatives, and others of the same ilk can no longer kick the can down the road, stall, pretend they are working hard on the problem, pretend they have […]
Springs Academy Tuesdays- Springs Stresses
The fifth meeting in this very successful series was held today, Aug. 2 at the North Florida Springs Environment Center in High Springs. The series runs through Sept. 6, and has had a loyal […]
Stop the Water Bottling Plant This Tuesday
Help protect our aquifer and tell the Sumter County Board of County Commissioners that the citizens do not want a water bottling plant sucking water for free out of the aquifer, and trucking it away […]
New Water Project Expands Use of Reclaimed Water in St. Johns County
Dan Scanian reports in the Jacksonville Times Union on a plan to save reclaimed water which will soon be put into place. OSFR is happy to see this improvement in water use. We need more […]
Putting a Price On Groundwater
Priceless: Would putting a small price on Florida’s groundwater help stop overpumping? By Natalie Bauta Underlying most of Florida and the American South, the Floridan Aquifer runs for some 100,000 square miles underground. This highly […]
Trying to Outguess Mother Nature Can Be Dangerous
It always makes this writer nervous when he reads about Florida’s water managers trying to outguess Mother Nature by trying to move natural water resources. Sometimes it results in a backfire, leaving one in an […]
Accounting for our Groundwater Inheritance
The Gainesville Sun on May 20, 2016 has published an editorial by Dr. “Robert Knight, OSFR advisor and director of the Florida Springs Institute, with his thoughts on the Floridan aquifer. Robert Knight: […]
Get in on the Conversation