Kiss our water goodbye
 

Apparently even though I have heard nothing but opposition to allowing a bottling company to bottle and sell our spring water, the Southwest Water management district plans to approve the permit request. How is it that we are placed on water restrictions and then the SWMD decides to let Azure pump between 500,000 and 1,000,000 gallons of spring water yearly from Sumter County ?? And to give that company a 20 year contract !!!

Don't worry, if we run out of water, you can buy it bottled.

What are the current water restrictions in Sumter County ?

:oops: Make that DAILY not yearly. :swear:

None that I know of.

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We can water only twice a week after midnight on certain defined days and for only so many minutes. Above this we have to pay really hefty prices even when our lawns and garden beds are now dark gold instead of green and in some places turning black. If there is so much water that that number of daily gallons can be pumped away...this is an insult to all of us to pay penalty prices when the grass is dying. Is there something we don't know that makes this acceptable?

Your state, county, and city officials at there finest. Vote them out if you don't like their rulings. Remember they work for us. Send them message

Water is free for city, county's, and states so they can charge us for the use of it. I can see day when on land owner will not own the water beneath their land. Farmers will have to pay for pumping it from there own land, home owners on well water will have to pay for water. Remember your government, local and federal in the business of taxing and taxes will never be enough.

:ohdear: It is the Southwest Florida Water Management District that is approving the permit.

In the first place, why would you think it is "our" water?

A rudimentary understanding of aquifers, ground water and water tables would show that they can cover vast areas upon which many entities draw from.

In other words, using that same premise the water might "belong" to the people around Gainesville or Orlando. :shrug:

i cannot recall a summer where i did not have limitations on watering my lawn. I was limited to only two days per week.

Apparently you think it is ok to let a bottling company bottle and sell the water from sumter county springs. In no way would i consider florida aquifer water as being a product of say Chicago or New York. What do you think would happen to the Villages if the Florida aquifers dried up. What I see would be a ghost town with homes worth nothing. Could this happen here, for the answer, I suggest you check into the lack of water in Southern California.

That's not a county restriction.....our water is supplied by the Central Sumpter Utility District which is one of 4 utility companies that serve TV. While there has been numerous discussions on if the water is expensive or not (depends where you came from) there is no way I would let any of my grass or landscaping die because someone stuck a sticker on my irrigation system. I have received letters in past because they claim I was uning too much water when they didn't know what I had planted, how the surrounding environment impacted the viability of the grass and plants, or what I even have. Their decisions is everyone has the same lot and the same landscaping. When the County or State impose restrictions then I will deal with it, or if the CSU agrees to reimburse me for the lost grass and landscaping we can discuss their opinion.

Sorry, I meant daily.

Thank you for helping me try to explain the restrictions to another poster. I live on a corner lot and usually my gallons used are subjected to the tier three water rates. My water bill (only water) at one point was slightly over $200 for a month usage.

Great idea !!!!