According to last Friday’s news release from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, American sugar growers are still able to stick it to American consumers. Well, no, that is not an exact quote from USDA economists, but they aren’t allowed to speak … Continue reading
Category Archives: Water use
Having a hard time securing a Florida water use permit? Is the proposed water withdrawal just plain too controversial? Here’s how you get around those problems. It is a bit cumbersome, and will amount to buying a water use permit, which … Continue reading
California’s water management system is far from perfect but it has some advantages over Florida for drought management. For example: California has a remarkable combination of nongovernmental water research groups, including the Pacific Institute, the California Water Foundation, and the (PPIC) Water Policy Center. (See, … Continue reading
The water bills being developed by the Florida House and Senate have both good ideas and not-so-good ideas. (Considerably more bad stuff in the House version.) Only the Senate went to the trouble of holding more than a few public meetings … Continue reading
The University of Florida Water Institute released on March 1 their report on “Options to Reduce High Volume Freshwater Flows to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee Estuaries and Move More Water from Lake Okeechobee to the Southern Everglades.” Key conclusions: …relief to the … Continue reading