Water Is a Side Issue
On 6-11-14 Tom at Watery Foundation published the following article: If you read this blog even sometimes, you have a very unusual degree of interest in water issues. For most people, water problems are incidental to […]
On 6-11-14 Tom at Watery Foundation published the following article: If you read this blog even sometimes, you have a very unusual degree of interest in water issues. For most people, water problems are incidental to […]
Students polishing Legislative cuspidors, 1962. (Florida State Photographic Archive.) The Florida Legislative chambers once were fully stocked with cuspidors for tobacco-spitting legislators. That became an unacceptable social practice, then was considered a charming recollection, and finally […]
When I pointed out a few days ago that the most important Scott Administration water policy was to “Unrelentingly please the biggest water users and water polluters,” I should have provided evidence. I could have quoted the Florida Chamber of … Continue reading →
Water management “performance measures” may appear to be neutral administrative instruments but in fact are value-dependent and deeply ideological. Measures also can vary in how closely they are connected to reality. Florida’s present measures are an illusion because they have little to do with … Continue reading →
Suppose you didn’t know much about water management but you ran successfully for state office. How can you fake it when you have to talk about the need to improve water management? The same way that elected officials do for many other … Continue reading →
State and federal gencies provide better information about farming than is available for other categories of water-associated activities. For example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture gives us an updated picture of Florida farms and water use in the newly-released 2012 Census of … Continue reading →
Water management reform doesn’t have to wait for the Legislature. The “Florida Springs and Aquifer Protection Act” which passed the Florida Senate, but did not get even a hearing in the House, is an example. If Governor Rick Scott wanted to take … Continue reading →
The “springs bill” being considered in the Florida Senate is full of commonsense policies. The bill calls only for measures that should have been in place long ago, enjoy strong public support, and cost less than recent water management budget … Continue reading →
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