Articles by: Gil Smart
If ever there was a person who captured the spirit of the fight to save Florida’s River of Grass, the famously feisty defender of the Everglades, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, was it. And who better to commemorate those efforts than Martin…
There is no question that insufficient and outdated water management priorities have led us to a human health crisis. Holding Lake Okeechobee water levels too high before the rainy season last year resulted in the emergency discharge of 392 billion…
The human health crisis blooming in Florida is becoming harder to ignore. Last week a new study showed that dolphins are testing positive for fatal neurological disorders–similar to Alzheimer’s–after chronic exposure to toxic algae in the same waters that we…
Who would lobby to solve a problem s-l-o-w-e-r? By changing the operational priorities for Lake Okeechobee’s management, we could be on the brink of an amazing shift in water policy with the potential to transform South Florida forever… right NOW……
Hey, look over there! While federal and state agencies and a legion of Florida policymakers and water management experts scramble to rebuild the disastrous Lake Okeechobee Regulation Schedule–the operating manual that led to last summer’s toxic bloom catastrophe–the state legislature has…
No one should be above the law. Or above the truth. That could have been the unifying theme of Governor Ron DeSantis’ demand for the resignation of every member of the South Florida Water Management District’s Board of Governors. For years…
Celebrate International Women’s Day with Bullsugar on Friday by centering your mind, body, and soul, eating well, and supporting the fight for clean water! Bullsugar.org is teaming up with Oceavasana and Ital Bowls Food Truck to host a beach front yoga event! …
There’s too much water in Lake Okeechobee. ACOE said so last Friday, announcing the agency was going to have to open the locks to the east and west. Discharges began last weekend: 500 cfs from lake to the St. Lucie…
People are waiting hours for two minutes at the microphone. The stories they’re telling at the Army Corps’ public meetings on water management are sometimes hard to listen to. Watching their dogs die. Wondering whether the neurological diseases crippling their…
“No.” The last holdouts on Rick Scott’s South Florida Water Management District governing board had gone years without hearing this answer from any authority, but things in Florida are different now. On Monday US Judge Federico Moreno denied their request,…
