Tag: springs
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Bottled Water: The Private Equity Firm Tapping America’s Spring Water
Photo: Water pours out of a pipe beside one of the sites in the San Bernardino Mountains where the company BlueTriton Brands collects water for bottling. Photographer: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images BlueTriton Brands owns Poland Spring, Arrowhead and other bottled water brands. As it tries to grow, experts worry sensitive springs, creeks and…
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Weeki Wachee Mermaids Tackle Water Pollution Education
This long, long-running roadside attraction is also educating visitors about pollutants’ effects, focusing on Florida issues that also are relevant to any agricultural regions. The mermaid show at Weeki Wachee Springs has been a delightfully kitschy, (very) family friendly, tourist staple for decades. These days, its shows are also relevant and topical, in a way…
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Florida lawmakers begin cracking down on polluters
Photo: City of Sarasota employees work to contain a sewage spill. Herald-Tribune archive (2011) Mike Lang But big questions remain about how far they’ll go TALLAHASSEE — The crowd packed into a committee room in the basement of the Florida House office building burst into applause last week after Rep. Randy Fine finished delivering an…
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Scheme to pump water to L.A. could destroy the Mojave Desert
Photo: An endangered desert tortoise sits in the middle of an eastern Mojave Desert road near Ivanpah, California, on Sept. 3, 2008. (Reed Saxon / Associated Press) Unlike some deserts, California’s Mojave Desert is full of life. There are tortoises and bighorn sheep, breathtaking wildflower blooms and Joshua trees. Many of the state’s plant and…
