Regular posting on this blog has been a good discipline, as well as enjoyable. My goal has been to help provide practical solutions to important Florida water problems-while having a bit of fun. There have been many opportunities for both. However, … Continue reading
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Gee, it has been a whole year since I wrote about false claims on the economic importance of Florida’s largest water user: agriculture. If this kind of thing bores you, stop reading because this is only an update. No, agriculture … Continue reading
Maybe it all is working exactly as designed. All of the Florida water “problems” are either created deliberately or are deemed acceptable tradeoffs for other higher priorities. Too much nitrogen contamination from septic tanks? That is just too bad, buddy, we … Continue reading
The candidates running for the Republican Presidential nomination haven’t talked much about water so we must extrapolate from their other statements. We can expect policies like the following to appear on their websites soon: Never forget that the Second Amendment protects our right … Continue reading
Why would Floridians knowingly put structures on a river bank or seashore right in the path of a “100-year” flood? For many people, the statistical odds of disaster might be acceptable. How so? The hundred-year flood is estimated to occur, at least statistically, in … Continue reading