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Water Resource Issues

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Broward County Encouraging Water Conservation by Treating Residents Like 4-Year-Olds

    ​It's the dry season, and Broward County is looking to encourage water conservation efforts by offering rebates to residents who buy high-efficiency toilets and other incentives, depending on your city. The goal is to cut water use by 30 million gallons per day -- and officials decided the be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    FAU Study: Coping With Climate Change in Florida May Cost as Much as $1 Billion

    randompixels.blogspot.comThat's not exactly a transportation "plan."​Not long after the Broward County Natural Resources Planning and Management Division released its report detailing how rising sea levels could cause major flooding across Fort Lauderdale, Florida Atlantic University has released ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Gov. Scott Presents Plan for Everglades Restoration -- Meaning More Engineering

    ​The Everglades is too far gone for anyone to let it take its natural course. South Florida's entire inland economy depends on a water system that stays around the same level all year long, avoids flooding communities (cough, Weston, cough) that are stupidly built in the natural flow of water from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2011

    William Stewart: Second Person This Week to Be Caught Mid-Download on Alleged Child Porn

    Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeWilliam Kenneth Stewart, wearing what appears to be a South Florida Water Management District shirt.​For the second time this week, cops served a warrant on a child-pornography suspect and allegedly found pictures and videos of naked kids mid-download on their com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    Huizenga CFO on Water Management Board; Does This Have Anything to Do With Yachts?

    Flickr user: totalAldoHuizenga is building a megayacht center in Riviera Beach.​Rick Scott's decision to appoint a pro-business corporate executive to the South Florida Water Management District's governing board is not exactly stunning. This is the governor, after all, who declared Florida "open ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Rick Scott's Quiet Campaign Against the Environment

    Parks and trees? Who needs 'em!​Remember the environmental apocalypse Rick Scott was supposed to create?While campaigning for governor, Scott called the Department of Community Affairs, the state agency charged with overseeing local development projects, a "jobs killer." He said he'd heard complai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Rick Scott Appoints Businessman With History of Everglades Pollution to Board That's Supposed to Keep it Safe

    Smokestacks similar to this one spewed some nasty stuff under Portuondo's reign at Montenay.​If there was any question whether Florida Gov. Rick Scott favored business over the environment, this week he ended the debate. Scott appointed a businessman with a history of environmental problems to ove ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2010

    Water… Sans Tar Balls!

    Smokestacks similar to this one spewed some nasty stuff under Portuondo's reign at Montenay.​If there was any question whether Florida Gov. Rick Scott favored business over the environment, this week he ended the debate. Scott appointed a businessman with a history of environmental problems to ove ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Controversial Herbicide Atrazine Will be Used Through At Least September

    Flickr: Loz FlowersSugar Cane Atrazine = BFF?​Farmers equate saying goodbye to atrazine to depleting Floridian agriculture. But a growing number of scientists believe atrazine, an herbicide widely used to remove weeds and promote the growth of cash-crop sugar cane, may cause cancer and birth def ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 11, 2009

    Cocaine Waterboys

    Flickr: Loz FlowersSugar Cane Atrazine = BFF?​Farmers equate saying goodbye to atrazine to depleting Floridian agriculture. But a growing number of scientists believe atrazine, an herbicide widely used to remove weeds and promote the growth of cash-crop sugar cane, may cause cancer and birth def ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2008

    Crist's Secrecy Prompts Suit

    Flickr: Loz FlowersSugar Cane Atrazine = BFF?​Farmers equate saying goodbye to atrazine to depleting Floridian agriculture. But a growing number of scientists believe atrazine, an herbicide widely used to remove weeds and promote the growth of cash-crop sugar cane, may cause cancer and birth def ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2007

    Gators Win, Readers Lose

    Flickr: Loz FlowersSugar Cane Atrazine = BFF?​Farmers equate saying goodbye to atrazine to depleting Floridian agriculture. But a growing number of scientists believe atrazine, an herbicide widely used to remove weeds and promote the growth of cash-crop sugar cane, may cause cancer and birth def ... More >>

  • Subtropical Life

    May 12, 2005

    Best Power Couple

    Mary and Kevin McCarty

  • News

    July 18, 2002

    For the Birds

    Should 2700 little sparrows be allowed to hold up the reclaiming of the Everglades?

  • Best of BPB

    May 16, 2002
  • Sports and Recreation

    May 16, 2002

    Best Place to Canoe

    Loxahatchee River Canoe Outfitters

  • Sports and Recreation

    May 16, 2002
  • News

    April 27, 2000

    Awful Fishy

    For Broward's canal fisherman, potentially toxic levels of mercury are a part of the catch of the day

  • News

    July 17, 1999

    Postcards From the Edge

    Peace and quiet, great fishing, tax-free land. Welcome to the Everglades, where "hunt camps" are enjoying a new lease on life.

  • News

    July 8, 1999

    Postcards From the Edge

    Peace and quiet, great fishing, tax-free land. Welcome to the Everglades, where "hunt camps" are enjoying a new lease on life.

  • Sports and Recreation

    March 11, 1999

    Best Freshwater Fishing

    Everglades Holiday Park

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