For non-locals or anyone that did not take in the headline (above) front page article from the Lowder-dale Fun Semi-mental newspooper about the oncoming Florida drinking water train-wreck, we provide some notable comments from that article and a link to it down below, as well as our usual cynical but insightful comments regarding the typical important hidden points which of course the tourism-owned puppetized bobbleheads did NOT address...
"The big lake is South Florida's backup water supply [the below-ground "aquifers" are the main supply but are also drying up and suffering permanent salt water intrusion] to replenish drinking water supplies...".
"While competing water users vie for more lake water, the health of the lake suffers from decades of draining, dumping and other manipulation [sic] to make way for agriculture and development.".
"We have this lake and water-level system that isn't working for anybody".
"...it's too low for gravity to fill the drainage canals that send lake water south to supplement irrigation for [hundreds of thousands of acres of the heavily-subsidized-with-our-tax-dollars] sugar cane [industry], vegetables, and other crops in the Everglades agricultural area> [and you all thought the Everglades "river of grass" was supposedly a national park?] That would prompt...temporary pumps to keep lake water flowing south".
"...hurricanes...stir up polluted lake sediment" (south Florida's tap/drinking water...).
"...the risk grows for more environmental damage in an ecosystem already punished from decades of pollution" (again, Sofla's drinking water, and "pollution" is waaayy understated).
The ongoing rapacious pillaging of the Everglades "river of grass" (into a "river of toxically contaminated sludge") as an agricultural, livestock, and industrial dumping ground for their multitude of numerous poisonous "runoffs" is a sincerely monumental issue of enormous proportions that we cannot begin to address here, but realize that the greedy and apparently dimwitted state officianadoes that allow this unconscionable short-sighted carnage of the state's drinking water supply could at least:
An important point which this article egregiously ignored is that the aforementioned main water supply of the below-ground thousands-of-square-miles aquifers (watery cave systems) are also being drained by the above-mentioned industries and grass-growing inhabitants, and further that the ocean waters are permanently replacing the drained fresh-water supply with polluted unusable salt water (this "salt water intrusion" is said to have -- already, as of the end of 2010 -- to have spread more than a mile inward from the coastlines of South Florida)..
The incredibly obvious bottom line -- which the gluttonous "carpe diem" officialisticoes of Florida stick their heads in the bacterialized sand and ignore -- is that the blatant destruction both of their water supplies by ignoring doing anything about the problems, is leading to the eventual loss of the fresh water supply, which just happens to lead to the loss of their 80 billion dollar per year tourism industry as well as affordable livability for it's residents. As Florida's fresh water supply continues to dry up, something WILL have to be done to address this oncoming train-wreck at some point in the future, but the state should start to at least implement some remediation measures NOW (a good, minimal, painless start would be replacing all of those voracious insecticide, herbicide, and water consuming lawns, roadsides, and golf courses with eco-friendly desert-terrain landscaping which also does not require constant air-polluting mowing)...
Link to article "As Lake Okeechobee Dries Up".
Footnote. If you are asking yourself why in the heck Florida does nothing about the travesty of despoiling the Everglades and their own disappearing water supplies by letting these non-essential industries camp out in what should still have been a water-purifying oxygen-producing swamp of water reserves, the answer is that the state of Florida pays hired lobbyists with taxpayer money to bribe the Florida legislature with more taxpayer money to continue to allow the industries to destroy the state that the taxpayers live in...that's why they call it FloriDUH...
Clarification. The aforementioned "desert-terrain landscaping" does not have to consist of rocks, although decorative rock is fine, and rather can consist of carbon-monoxide consuming and oxygen-producing tropical and subtropical, desert-acclimated, flowering vegetation that does not require watering but does serve as a habitat for butterflies and beneficial insects as well as providing a feeding ground for (declining) honey bees. We have seen this done by the few sensible Floridians which comprehend the many advantages of a tropical garden for a lawn (ok, ok, so you cant play football in a "tropical garden").
"How stupid is that". The heavily government-subsidized sugar cane industry in south Florida not only adds to the voracious drain of the dimininishing water supply, pollutes the same disappearing water supply, and pollutes the air (they set the vast expanse of matured cane stalks on fire and let it burn before harvesting just to make it easier to harvest, cluttering the air with a heavy fog of smoke for days at a time), but also realize that the UNESCO World Heritage Committee listed Florida's Everglades National Park as a "world heritage" that is in danger because of "serious and continuing degradation of its aquatic ecosystem" by the sugar cane industry and over-development. You are thinking that we are surely making this up aren't you. OK, then doubters can click on this link to ""Sugarcane Industry In South Florida Help Put The Everglades On UNESCO's List Of Endangered Heritages".
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