The Everglades and south Florida's estuaries-past, present, and future

Right now, there are two major issues that have cascading effects on the interconnected waters of south Florida-the direction of water and the quality of water in Lake Okeechobee. The water in the lake is going the wrong way, and it's also heavily polluted with nutrients that fuel harmful algal blooms.
The manipulation of water in south Florida over the past 100 years-a result of the early 20th-century initiative to dike Lake Okeechobee and drain the Everglades in order to create farmland south of the lake-has created an environmental crisis today.
This water mismanagement in Florida has led to the near collapse of three nationally recognized estuaries-the Caloosahatchee River on the west coast, the St. Lucie River on the east coast, and the Everglades to the south.
There are too many nutrients, and we have heavily altered flows-we need to fix the water quality and we need to fix where the water goes.
Learn more about the issues at hand and the solutions that exist here: captainsforcleanwater.org/our...