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
Category Archives: Florida water resources
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
It is more than odd that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection highlights on its home page a “Performance Dashboard” with not a single measure corresponding to key “Water Management Performance Measures” used by the five water management districts. The WMDs report on fundamental performance measures … Continue reading
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection still defends the idea of raising more revenues within the state park system, even though that system already raises more than two-thirds of expenditures (far above the national average). It is obvious that picking on … Continue reading
Philip Wylie‘s 1949 article on water pollution in Miami probably made as big an environmental difference as any other piece of Florida journalism. “Polluted Paradise” showed a national audience how much of Miami’s sewage was completely untreated and piped straight … Continue reading