A Win For Water
In a situation gone from good to much worse, the waters of Tampa Bay had been restored to nearly 1950s cleanliness but have lately suffered continued pollution hits due in part to Pinellas County’s frequent […]
Phosphate Industry Has Florida Lawmakers and Agencies In Its Pocket
For well over one hundred years, the phosphate industry in Florida has left its toxic waste scattered about in huge piles. The Florida taxpayer has been saddled with cleanup costs, and the marine life in […]
Millions of Rural Americans Rely on Private Wells. Few Regularly Test Their Water
We are not aware that Florida is among the many states which assist rural residents with well issues. What Florida does have are useless Basin Management Action Plans that do not even approach the solutions […]
Human-caused Excess Nutrients Feed Seaweed
As with red tide and toxic algae, excess nutrients are suspected as a cause in the recent huge masses of seaweed occurring in our oceans. Some of those come from Florida rivers and perhaps […]
Coca Cola Breaks Promises
The following was sent to me from The Story of Stuff. This group is very active in working to save our planet, and we enthusiastically support them, and that is why we are passing this […]
Tallahassee Fails Its Citizens
None of the reasons for this botched federal gift puts Tallahassee in a favorable light. Lack of leadership? What else is new? Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like […]
Nationwide Water Crisis Getting Worse
It is a fact that the USA cannot continue its current water use or eventually it will deplete its water sources. In Florida our leaders do not care about this and show no concern […]
MFLs, a License to Kill
Manasota-88 writes today about Minimum Flows and Levels (MFLs) in Horse and Charlie creeks in South Florida, but the situation is the same in the Santa Fe basin: the State of Florida uses the MFLs […]
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