Meb452m's Blog

Water woes ? Who determines where or when ? Recently both FOX and the Orlando Sentinel did news articles on a water bottling plant near Groveland slated to open in the very near future. The St. Johns Water District Management approved both the opperation and amount of water to be drawn and sold. Local residents are " now " in an uproar and planning to sue to halt this bussiness. Orange county commissioners, with Tereas Jacobs at the forefront, have talked of joining the suit. This after the company has spent aproximately 20 million dollars to open a facility that had PRIOR approval. My first question is why did you wait this long to consider or take such action ?  The aquifer is an underground river of water that flows south, that is a fact. Is the Orange County Commissioner's concern due solely to the fact that this plant is farther upstream, to the north of us, possibly effecting our water supply ? Has the same consideration be given to bussinesses and developement in this county  and the impact to counties farther south that rely on the Florida Aquifer as a primary source of fresh water? Osceola county has several large developements going in around East Lake that are labeled as having REGIONAL IMPACT, do these projects bear any consideration on available water resources and the impact on water availability to counties farther south that rely on the Florida Aquifer ?  As some of the more sparcely populated counties to our north are developed, do you think their water consumption and it's impact farther south will be taken under consideration  in their  planning, permitting and developement process? Or is it every man and woman for him or herself ?

Think you should ask those Tampa/ St. Pete residents paying for desalinated water what their bill is ? Just just might want to, it won't alieve the comming pain, it will probably cut down on the shock just a little.

Alachua county is looking better every day !