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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

I don't know what that is in the picture


I was watching "America's Got Talent" last night. I saw a couple of kids that I thought should not have been eliminated. There was a young Chinese girl who was a contortionist which was very good at it. She was either 8 or 12 years old. I am bad with guessing ages. The other contestant was a young boy that could dance. It just seemed without an audience his performance did not impress the judges. The little boy cried and the TV camera showed his heartbreaking tears. I don't know how the male opera stars panned out. I will have to watch the next show to find out.
I have another issue to cry foul about. This is selling Florida water out of Florida's Aquifer to a bottling company who will take it to California for distribution. The St. John's River Management should not let money rule. Instead, they need to preserve what belongs to the State of Florida. One of the arguments on the news is that it is legal for the water bottling company to petition the State to buy the water to sell outside the State. Our Florida Aquifer is not an endless supplying source of fresh water. It has it's limits. I don't know if the Florida Aquifer is subject to saltwater intrusion, but the State is surrounded by Atlantic Ocean and The Gulf of Mexico which is salt water. Plus, we are having growth problems with new developments and run off water. Plus, the demand for water is a lot higher when we don't have the rain we need here.
It seems to me a lot easier for the water bottling company to go to Tennessee or Alaska and ask for the right to bottle their water. It may even be a better grade of water depending on lab results. This company should leave Florida in peace and let the residence here enjoy what belongs to them which is The Florida Aquifer.

1 Comments:

  • At 6:13 AM, Blogger Lew said…

    I am not sure what that is in the picture. I suspect that it is probably a large clump of seaweed that got rolled into a large pile by the action of the waves at high tide. We already have salt water intrusion in Miami due to overpumping of the aquifer and drastically decreasing the recharge of the aquifers by draining the everglades for building new homes and farming. They just keep moving the wells farther west as the salt water continues to intrude underground. Eventually we may all be getting our water the old fashioned way, a rain barrel beneath the downspout from the gutters on the roof. But by then your house will be submerged under 30 feet of water from the melting polar ice caps and the homes in Orlando will be ocean front property. There is a country western song by that title. Have a nice day. Lew

     

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