With the staff shakeup yesterday at SFWMD, four of the five water management districts now have executive directors that previously worked in Rick Scott’s office or in his Department of Environmental Protection. (The only exception (for now?) is the Southwest Florida … Continue reading
Category Archives: Water management districts
Five-year old children have a problem understanding that a volume of water remains the same even if moved to a different container: We can see an analagous conceptual inability for the people currently in charge of the water management districts. … Continue reading
In 2011, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection began posting “policy documents” they were sending to the water management districts. For example, an April 25, 2011 document on permitting programs “stressed the importance of clear, predictable, and consistent implementation of our … Continue reading
Joseph Heath, a philosophy professor at the University of Toronto, offers as good a theory as any to explain why Florida politics-and water policy-has become so irrational. In Enlightenment 2.0, he observes that one side of the political spectrum has … Continue reading
Richard V. Reeves at the Brookings Institution argues for more consideration of “policy commitment devices.” This kind of governmental structure can “commit policymakers to a longer-term perspective.” They work because breaching the commitment is difficult. Historically, Florida’s five water management districts … Continue reading