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Take the Springs Heartland Water Quiz and Win a Treasure Map Prize!
The Florida Springs Heartland Water Quiz is the Alliance’s latest educational project. When you take the quiz online, you can win a treasure map that you can print out for fun! See: https://ichetuckneealliance.org/water-quiz The Alliance’s outgoing communications coordinator worked on the quiz with our webmaster, Stewart Joon Thomas of Palmstone Studio in Gainesville, and …
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Global Commission on the Economics of Water Reinforces Ichetucknee Alliance’s Messages
The Global Commission on the Economics of Water has released a report that reinforces many of the messages that the Alliance has been sending for the past 10 years. Those messages have been based on science and the long-term trends that show spring flows declining and water pollution increasing. Those trends, in turn, are the …
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Global Freshwater Crisis: Will Florida Turn the Tide or Turn a Blind Eye?
Commentary on a Report by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water by Robert E. Ulanowicz, Ph.D. March 21, 2023 Turning the Tide: A Collective Call to Action is an extremely important document. The public is constantly and justifiably made aware that action to stop global warming is mandatory if we are to avoid …
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Refuting Some Claims of Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
A Few More Things You Didn’t Know About Florida Springs By Lucinda Faulkner Merritt The document you see above is intended to convince Floridians that everything is fine and dandy and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is actually protecting our freshwater springs. Don’t be fooled. “Thirty percent of the nation’s water quality data comes …
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Pathways to Advocacy: How You Can Help to Save Florida’s Springs
By Joon Thomas and Lucinda Faulkner Merritt Do you love Florida’s freshwater springs but don’t know what you can do to save them? There are many different pathways that springs defenders can take. Here are a few; choose one, or create a new pathway! Change Your Behavior We’ve all heard this: Use less water, use …
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Ichetucknee Alliance Wins BMAP Challenge Case
Breaking News! The Ichetucknee Alliance–along with other plaintiffs including Our Santa Fe River and with critical backing from the Florida Springs Council–has won a court challenge that will force the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to create a more effective plan to reduce nitrate pollution in the Ichetucknee and other Outstanding Florida Springs. Visit the …
Keeping Faith With a River: A Book Review
Keeping Faith with a River: Florida’s Santa Fe River and Springs: An Environmental and Cultural History by Robert L. Knight A book review by Lucinda Faulkner Merritt Browsing my copy of Bob Knight’s new book about the Santa Fe River Springs (that’s what he once told me that this whole system could be called), I …
“Humans Are Responsible…” by Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson
“Humans are responsible because the harm is directly tied to our land uses” By Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson Editor’s Note: Ichetucknee Alliance Advisory Board Member Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson wrote the following in an email in reaction to an article in the September/October 2003 issue of Mother Jones magazine, “The Ungreening of America: Down Upon the Suwannee River” (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/09/ungreening-america-down-upon-suwannee-river). …
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