The meeting surrounds the water bottling permit for Seven Springs Water Company, a company contracted by multinational corporation Nestlé, to take nearly one million gallons of water a day from Ginnie Springs.
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Last March, the world was briefly experiencing some of the cleanest water and air on record in decades. The global lockdown at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic was giving the natural world a chance to recover. For better or worse, that recovery period didn’t last. Last week, over three …
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Seven Springs will soon know if they will be granted a permit to take nearly one million gallons of water a day from Ginnie Springs in Florida. A special meeting has been scheduled by the Suwannee River Management District Board to make a decision.
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Rejecting arguments by the Suwannee River Water Management District, an administrative law judge has backed renewing a permit for a North Florida business to pipe hundreds of thousands of gallons of spring water a day to a nearby bottling plant.
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University of Florida and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission researchers have studied the common snook for more than a decade, tracking their movements and recent invasion into the waters near Cedar Key, a town with fewer than 700 residents an hour southwest of Gainesville.
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Heavy rain bands are already moving onshore in southwest Florida and are expected to move into the Tampa/St. Pete areas this morning.
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Alachua County had only 0.99 inches of rain in March, according to Fay Baird, the senior hydrologist of the Suwannee River Water Management District. This is less than 25% of what was expected for March, making it one of the driest Marches on record since 1932.
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While Seven Springs waits to see if it can get another 20-year permit renewal from the Suwannee River Water Management District, the community has mobilized. With the final say in the hands of its six-member governing board, residents have poured out in numbers to voice their opposition.
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Fifty people attended a discussion titled “Water: What Is It Good For?” that featured five panelists with varied environmental experience.
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