the west isn't the only place losing drinking water - Florida too

[ensho]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/03/2389477/wall-of-saltwater-snaking-up-south.html


Wall of saltwater snaking up South Florida’s coast

Saltwater intrusion is an issue along South Florida’s coast — and it’s moving west


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Hallandale Beach has abandoned six of its eight drinking water wells because saltwater has advanced underground across two-thirds of the city.

“The saltwater line is moving west and there’s very little that can be done about it,” said Keith London, a city commissioner for Hallandale Beach, who has worked on water conservation and reuse for the last decade.

A wall of saltwater is inching inland into the Biscayne Aquifer — the primary source of drinking water for 4.5 million people in South Florida.

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(digging new wells)
The project will cost an estimated $10 million, says Earl King, Deputy Director of Hallandale Beach Utilities and Engineering. Residents will eventually pay those capital costs.

(other places in Fl. are spending $1.5 million on a reverse osmosis filtration system)

-snip talking about rain capture-
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and guess who will be paying for the search for drinking water

[SidDithers]

1. Who do you think should pay for the search for drinking water?...nt

Sid

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. The casino and the developers are are most likely responsible for the problem

through overdevelopment and loss of natural areas.

[FLPanhandle]

2. Too many people for the environment to support.

That and pumping the aquifers dry watering golf courses, lawns, etc.

[Shagbark Hickory]

5. There used to be a lot of mangroves in that area.

Not anymore. Had to remove them to build parking, shopping, gambling, hotels, condos etc.

[lib2DaBone]

4. ...and Gov pRick Scott just destroyed all wet-land management laws......

...oh.. and I almost forgot... Michelle Bachman wants to drill for oil in the Everglads National Park... where all the fresh water accumulates.

The Teabag Repuke mind.. you just can't believe it will get any worse... and it does.

[Historic NY]

6. +1

[onethatcares]

7. Nestea should pay

something for the water they get for free from the springs, bottle and sell to the citizens, but alas they don't have to pay anything for a natural resourse because they create jobs.

during the jebbie reign there was talk of pumping treated sewerage into the aquifier, letting it mix with the fresh, and then being repumped as drinking water. I forget who the contractors were going to be but you can bet your ass the richieriches wouldn't be having any of it.

[NightWatcher]

8. But our brazillians of golf courses are lush and green

And that's what matters...that old rich white people get to tee up before they depart the mortal coil.