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  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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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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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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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 …

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The Ichetucknee Alliance released a statement on February 3, 2023, about the need for better growth planning to protect the Ichetucknee River System. The Alliance’s board of directors felt such a statement was necessary after analyzing some troubling cases occurring in the Ichetucknee Basin and Ichetucknee Trace in Columbia County. Click here to read the …

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The Ichetucknee Alliance Board of Directors added two new members at its January 2023 meeting. Marcia Davis is a lawyer and mediator at the Bice Cole Law Firm, PL, which has offices in Alachua, Coral Gables and Ocala. Paul Donsky is a master’s degree student who is researching springs ecology at the University of Florida. …

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The nutrients and other chemicals that can pollute the groundwater in the Ichetucknee Basin have been identified in a new article by the AquiferWatch team and a staff member of the Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute. Click here to learn more about these threats to the Ichetucknee.

The Florida Springs Council got a big win in the “Nestle” case on November 30, 2022! One of the people who helped make this possible is Ichetucknee Alliance President John Jopling, who (with the Alliance) is a founding member of the Florida Springs Council (FSC). Here’s what FSC wrote about the appellate court’s decision: A …

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Florida Creatives for Clean Water, a new Facebook page dedicated to helping the Florida Right to Clean and Healthy Waters (RTCW) state constitutional amendment petition campaign reach its first goal, is the Ichetucknee Alliance’s newest project. Developed by the Alliance in partnership with the RTCW campaign that the Alliance’s board has endorsed, Florida Creatives for …

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Messages from the Springs Heartland, The Gainesville Sun’s monthly column series that ran from October 2021 through October 2022, has ended. The Ichetucknee Alliance’s communications coordinator helped to organize this series that featured columns by artists, writers, scholars, scientists and springs advocates. Unfortunately, the Sun’s publisher eliminated that newspaper’s opinion section, so there will be …

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