Florida's Springs Are Dying: It's time to get off your butts for springs protection
By Robert Knight. Published in the Gainesville Sun on October 25, 2022.
Florida is the Land of a Thousand Springs. Beautiful and healthy springs are among Floridaās most important natural attractions. Crystal clear, sky blue and teaming with fish; cooling in summer, warm enough for manatees in winter; North Floridaās springs are now more endangered than South Floridaās Everglades.
Increasingly dominated by tannic waters, suffering from declining flows, polluted by nutrients, choked with noxious filamentous algae and often overwhelmed by uncontrolled recreation, Floridaās once-pristine springs are a shadow of their past glory and a testament to poor resource management and economic greed.
If you are one of the millions of Floridaās residents who has visited these springs, and if you enjoyed that unforgettable experience, it is time to take action to help save our springs for the future.
Officials not doing their jobs
Public officials pass laws that are intended to ensure clean water and protect our natural environment and are expected to enforce those laws. We pay our taxes so they can reverse the pollution and depletion of the springs allowed by previous administrations. Why should you spend more of your own money and invest your energy to do their job for them?
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