We have written about Santa Fe River floods distributing E.coli bacteria from flooded septic tanks and this article reveals that rising seas are doing the same thing on a large scale along the coasts. The […]
Good for the Bear Warriors United. The State of Florida knows very well why the manatees are dying, and it is because our state refuses to keep its waters clean enough for these animals […]
The solution to this problem is known to our water decision-makers: fewer nutrients entering our waters. Most nutrients come from too much fertilizer, both urban and agricultural, and from too septic tanks. Some money is […]
Craig Pittman never fails to entertain, but he is at his very best when writing about authorities who do stupid things. And in Florida, of course, there is no dearth of examples. Those authorities […]
Read the original article with photos and graphs here at USA Today. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: once taken, it cannot be brought […]
This is a scary follow-up of yesterday’s post on manatee starvation, caused by a lack of food due to water pollution. Not only do we have manatees dying because of pollution, we have sick turtles […]
there is no mention in this article of the cause nor the solution to this problem, which is mostly nutrients from excessive agricultural and urban fertilizer, plus septic tanks. Our Department of Environmental Protection goes […]
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