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Originally Posted by redwitch
A year or two after I moved here, Florida was declared in a state of drought. This lasted for a couple of years. Yet, it was only recommended that water be conserved, no real enforcement. Florida (and Floridians) seems to not quite understand the need to conserve water. California learned the hard way when it lost a few aquifers. Hopefully, we'll learn from its mistakes, but I doubt it.
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I agree. It is the job of governments, as custodians of the public trust , to protect water resources for the public’s benefit. Allowing bottled water companies to consume Florida’s water resources, when our country faces an impending water shortage, is a breach of public trust. And add to that, the public is uneducated, and doesn't see the ramifications of allowing private enterprise to use state natural resources for their own monetary benefit, and doesn't even recognize the environmental hazards created (think the millions of plastic bottles that will hold the water). The acquifers and rivers are in trouble because people have been consuming their available water faster than it can be regularly replenished with rain; and they lack sufficient restraint or regulatory controls to keep this from happening - hence we have a conundrum.