It may seem that Florida is blessed with an endless resource (prior to drainage, the Everglades was one of the largest freshwater producing systems on the planet), but water here is now a limited resource. If we carve up the pie amongst legal users, is there anything else left at the end of the day (for plants, animals and drinking water aquifers)? That’s a conversation that’s constantly ongoing and shifting.” “That said, the environment is not considered a legal user, so there’s an issue. “It is a public resource,” said Dawn Shirreffs, policy adviser for the Everglades Foundation.
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