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 […]
Subsidence: One More Problem Caused by Over-Pumping Groundwater
Over-pumping has caused parts of Houston to drop almost ten feet in six years. This is even more critical when combined with seas rising from climate change. Ironically, some people who are the least to […]
North Florida, South Florida Vie to Be Most-Polluted Region
Florida’s critical water problems continue because no water restoration plan exists from the DEP and the five water management districts. Our state allows over-pumping and little to no control over the nutrients going into […]
Vidler/Nestle– Wake Up Florida
Florida’s water resources are managed by people who are imprisoned by the inability to think ahead and who live for the moment with no concern for our descendants. Because of this we are destined to […]
Meeting On Suwannee River MFLs
Here is an announcement of our water district’s meeting to discuss the minimum flows and levels of the Middle and Upper Suwannee River. This is a process the District must go through so the public […]
Senate Saltwater Intrusion Study Bill Flows Out of Final Committee
Not only confined to Florida’s coasts, salt water intrusion is largely caused by over-pumping, a preventable cause exacerbated by Florida’s unlimited free-water-for-all pumping policy. Read the original article here in Florida Politics. Comments by OSFR […]
Florida Refuses to Clean Up Water
Even the threat of losing our manatees is not enough for our leaders to clean up our water. Florida has wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars in “make-work” designed to falsely indicate that they are […]
The World Is Running Out of Fresh Water Fast
We have all sorts of deniers out there. Not long ago the denier mentality, which I won’t try to define here but benevolently limit the adjectives to only the word “stubborn,” was focused on climate […]
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