OPINION Trouble in the Garden of Eden
Your historian is a relative newcomer when it comes to trying to protect our springs and rivers. We have been working on that less than a decade but we are sorry to say we have […]
DeSantis is not helping the environment, only pretending
A 2018 algae outbreak in Stuart, where Lake Okeechobee water is discharged. Credit: John Moran By not following the scientists’ roadmap to clean water, the governor can continue announcing he’s spending millions of dollars […]
Over-pumping groundwater has many ripple effects, all bad.
The main point of this article is that over-pumping of groundwater has had major effects on wildlife, and our water agencies know better but continue to give more pumping permits. Ill-thought-out development, bought-and-paid-for politicians, the […]
Disaster for Florida’s Imperiled Waters
Disastrous news for Florida’s already imperiled waters as the state now has the power to by-pass oversight from the EPA. Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection has failed during the last decades to protect […]
Florida law does little to clean up waterways Jim Carroll —
The following editorial shows that some people in Florida are not fooled by the disingenuous actions of our governor, DEP spokespersons and other agencies who take taxpayer money to conserve our waterways but actually do […]
Protecting springs poses challenges for farmers
Indeed, over-pumping and over-fertilizing has resulted in degraded springs. And, also indeed, the BMAPS are not the solution. Mr. Tubbs describes the problem but not the cure. Certainly the solution is not to drive […]
Alachua County’s watersheds are in trouble — More Results Of Our Water Managers’ Failures
Yet another depressing description of our water managers’ failures. Even so, the missing piece in the county’s wetlands protection plan, “the elephant in the living room,” is a lack of regulation for agricultural uses. “In […]
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