Lots Of New Florida Developments Lined Up, But What Wll They Drink?
Even more scary than the title of Craig Pittman’s article here, is the fact that our Tallahassee water authorities have no plan to fix this problem. They could do it –not cheaply–by limiting groundwater withdrawals […]
Water Transfer Ready
The water levels of the lakes in the region did not drop because of “neglect, abuse and mismanagement. ” They dropped because JAE of Jacksonville pumped too much water from the aquifer. OSFR has […]
Article Misses Main Point
Articles like these are extremely frustrating because they leave out the most important information: the preventable causes which our state chooses to ignore. Instead, they spend millions on treating symptoms. Not to say that […]
Water Transfer Not the Solution
Water transfer proposals for the Suwannee River Basin (in which the Santa Fe River is located) occasionally surface. Water transfers almost never achieve what their instigators expect. This is because you cannot take water from an […]
Black Creek Water Transfer Not the Solution
“…start siphoning as much as 10 million gallons of water a day from the South Prong of the Black Creek and pushing it through 17 miles of piping to Alligator Creek, into a drain […]
The System That Moves Water Around the Earth Is off Balance for the First Time in Human History
For those who think we can just slow down our water use and be back where we were years earlier, this article may be a surprise and a disappointment. If we have learned one thing […]
Another Taxpayer Boondoggle
This appears to be another taxpayer boondoggle dreamed up by state so-called water protectors who have too much time on their hands. It sounds much like a “rob Peter to pay Paul” scheme. These […]
Glossing Over Negative Impacts
The original plan of this water transfer spoke of taking water from Black Creek only during flood periods when there was too much water in the creek. Lately that has not been mentioned and they […]
Taxpayer Boondoggle Continues.
This huge waste of taxpayer money continues on and on. Water levels in some Keystone lakes fell when the JAE began drawing out huge amounts of water from the aquifer. This resulted in a […]
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 […]
Fools Persist, No End of Dumb Ideas
As climate change brings new weather patterns and phenomena, water surpluses and scarcity will result in panic and frantic activity brought on by denial and inaction begun decades ago. It may also bring on bad […]
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 […]