How To Protect Florida Natural Resources

The negative of the “supply-side” management strategy is: the contamination due to fracking for creating wells and bottling to store water, and deadly levels of arsenic in ARS wells. On other side, the positive of the “supply-side” management strategy is that Its projected that with the use of a 15 gallon reservoirs and a 66 gallon water treatment plants can be cut down 1/3 of groundwater usage. We must use desalination plants, wells, bottling, and reservoirs to counteract the rainwater cannot naturally replenish the aquifers because of the human developments covering the ground.

Developing and implementing strategies that can secure adequate water for both people and the environment is one of the most important missions of the water management districts in Florida. To fulfill their missions, the water management districts develop water supply plans to help provide adequate and sustainable water supplies to meet future needs while protecting the environment. One of the more important tools used in the planning process is a regional groundwater model.

Over a time period of many years, the Florida Everglades have been harmed.This is due not only to the fact that the Everglades were almost entirely drained, but also the fact that extremely hazardous chemicals are being put into the Everglades. However many organizations are helping the Everglades get their water quality and pollution under control.

The Hidden Rivers in Florida are under the Protection of Department of Environmental Protection, I think we as Human Beings can protect our environments and waters by, Taking shorter showers it’s very easy to take longer showers in the morning when you’re still tired, showering for 15 mins is a better choice than showering for an hour or longer. Switching to a better shower head can help also with lathering up in less water. You also fix leaks in the pipes in your house and also turn off unnecessary running water and install water saving products in your house. It really sad that people do not care about the damage that they are causing the rivers and the forests with dumping trash. We as human’s beings must understand the earth’s special places the live beneath us. https://www.foe.co.uk/living/articles/water_saving_tips_39606

Along with the numerous natural disasters that humans face in their environment, sinkholes are becoming a more prominent and frequent force to reckon with. Sinkholes are not a new phenomenon, but due to human activity, these concavities are becoming increasingly common. If humans continue to abuse underlying aquifer systems then the influx of sinkhole occurrences will rise. Since sinkholes are naturally occurring hydrogeological systems, the only way to minimize damage caused by this detriment is to respect and conserve water. We can counter that the Floridian Aquifer will not deplete anytime soon, but we need to become realistic regarding the impact we apply on this delicate water mechanic. It is easy for humans to misuse their local resources

In Florida, have you ever wonder where your water comes from? Well, the everglades provides water to 7 million people who live here In Florida. Also have u asked yourself, do your ever think our water supply could ever stop? The everglades water supply is losing its water and it’s affecting the park and it’s causing problems too.

Water is a necessary factor in Everglades national park. Many animals and people use the lake to gain water, however because of this, the water has shrunk half it's size.

To supplement the City’s upstate water supplies, the DEP will also rehabilitate the Queens Groundwater System, a system of 68 wells and aquifers in southeastern Queens. The groundwater system is expected to provide more than 33 million gallons of water a day to 100,000 residents in the locality. The DEP plans to install water treatment systems for the system to ensure that the wells produce high-quality water that meets or exceeds all water quality standards (“Water for the Future | Queens Groundwater Rehabilitation”).

Groundwater is the largest and most available usable source of drinking water in the state. There is a vast and mysterious system of caves and natural springs in North Central Florida. The cave system within the aquifer is one of the most amazing parts. The caves are remarkable in many ways. They are among the deepest and longest in the world, let alone the U.S. Another amazing aspect of the system is the purity of the water. The springs collectively produce billions of gallons of crystal clear water per day. The whole system stems from the Florida Aquifer that rests under the entire state. When most people think of Florida, they think of the weather and the beaches, but its the springs and the whole water

The state of Florida is very dependent on groundwater, primarily for public and agricultural supply. Indeed, the largest source of drinking water in Florida is groundwater from the state’s massive aquifer system; approximately ninety percent of the state’s drinking water is extracted from groundwater sources (Marella, 2004). According to Marella (2004), “Between 1970 and 2000, total freshwater withdrawals increased for public supply by 176 percent and for agricultural self-supplied by 87 percent” (p. 1). As discussed previously, a growing population correlates with an increase in the demand for groundwater resources. Groundwater is currently being pumped out of Florida’s aquifers faster than the state’s abundant rainfall can refill them (Barnett, 2007, p.2).

Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful to society and their uses include agriculture, industrial, household, recreational, and environmental activities. These underground water sources and above ground, including aquifers, streams, ponds, rivers, lakes, oceans, and any open-access source of water used by humans. Water is a public good and a common pool resource and there is a lot of trouble with it because no one can fully regulate what people do with it behind closed doors or when no one is watching. Because of pollution, we are also losing usable fresh water, by either contamination of sources or large amounts of water being polluted themselves. The problem with injection wells is that they do both of these

Farmers need water to grow their crops,although farmers need water we still have to have groundwater regulations.Not only farmers need water we do too but if farmers take all the groundwater were are going to get our water? If it does not rain and we do not have groundwater what are going to do? How are we going to get water to shower,to drink.to cook? That is why we need groundwater regulations so we all have a fair amount of water,farmers to grow food a nd us to do our basic things we do everyday.

Next we will discuss the Florida Aquifer System. There are many factors that contribute to the storage and movement of ground water, porosity and permeability are the two most important elements to this equation (Lutgens, 2012.) Porosity is the volume of open space between rock or sediment and permeability is the ability for a fluid to pass through (Lutgens, 2012.) Rock and sediments that allow groundwater to travel freely are called aquifers. These aquifers are natural resources that exist underneath the earths surface to store water. In the case of Florida’s aquifer system the system is considered to be one of the most productive in the world (USGS, n.d.) In its entirety, the aquifer system “underlies an area of about 100,000 square miles

“Even though California was the only state in the West without groundwater legislation, officials with the Kern County Farm Bureau said they’re not happy with the state’s bill.” (Source one). Apparently, farmers are not so happy about them making a bill. If there is a legislative law about monitoring groundwater, then how will the farmers grow their crops? Some farmers are worried, too, according to source three. “In Merced County, farm leaders are trying to stop two private landowners from selling as much as 7 billion gallons of well water to farmers in another county.” (Source

Groundwater is used primarily for irrigating farmland; and secondarily, for consumption and industrial use. Aquifers, unconsolidated subterranean layers which hold water, are rapidly dwindling, and groundwater depletion is quickly growing to become a major problem for farmers and the public at large. Reserves close to ground level are rapidly drying up and due to technological roadblocks, extracting water from deeper reserves is not yet financially feasible. The problem is especially severe in California, which represents around 20% of all groundwater withdrawal in the United States (Famiglietti, LA Times). A lack of water for agriculture would directly lead to diminished food production and indirectly lead to requiring food imports from outside the state. Groundwater resources are an unregulated public resource and despite any innovative breakthrough in extraction techniques, the only sustainable, long-term solution is to enforce limits on extraction. Regulation of how much groundwater can be extracted from an aquifer in a set period of time; along with incentives to obtain water from alternative sources is the ideal solution to address the perennially growing challenge of groundwater depletion in California.