In 2003, two friends in Marion County started Team Conservation. Com.  Today we are world wide in helping keep water clean.  See what the Heart of Florida Connection is doing with Florida's Eden.

Environmental Super Heroes have come forward to help with the concept of keeping clean water clean.  FDEP is now making important inroads toward this goal.

Today, Hundreds of millions of private dollars are being invested in systems to grow algae in Bio Energy Centers rather than in our Florida Springs. 

Billionaire Guy Laliberte becomes Space Tourist and Environmental Host on

The International Space Station

Art, Environmental Earth Science, and Education head the list of Guy's effort to raise awareness for his Environmental Foundation One Drop Foundation.

People from around the world, including Gammons Team Telescope activist followed the effort to help protect Earth's Water Resources.

In usual extraordinary first class style, the expert high stakes poker player lead a multi-Continental parade of performances to highlight water awareness.

 News Just In:

Florida's Department of Environmental Protection creates an illusion of Spring Protection charges EPA officials.  Changes are on the horizon.  Hundreds of drains to the aquifer were not disclosed in recent DEP Springs Protection Programs.

Florida's Department of Environmental Protection is called on the carpet for bad management practices.  Years of draining pollutants into the drinking water aquifer is now called into question.  AG Secretary Charles H. Bronson  feels it will take Billions to repair the damage, asks that EPA hold up on requiring standards for Utility Drainage to Floridan Aquifer.

Millions spent recently for Springs Protection may have been a ploy to drain surface waters without appearing to be doing so.  Excess nitrates give away the untidy secret.  Environmentalist call for shake up.  Billions of Tax Payer Dollars may be at risk.  The  state's Potable Water supply may be contaminated by years of draining sewer waste, storm sewer runoff, river and lake water into the aquifer.  Some experts feel it is beneficial to recharge the aquifer with contaminated water.   It appears that only city and county utilities were allowed to dump into the aquifer.

 Citizens reportedly are expressing concerns that water bills will rise if pollutants are not filtered out before Sewer Effluent is pumped into the Drinking Water Aquifer.  It costs a lot to clean Aquifer Water once pollutants are introduced.  Short term savings by utilities will end up costing customers a great deal in the long term, say utility operators off the record.  One Marion County official termed the Alachua dumping a "Time Bomb" that will arrive at the Ocala drinking water wells.  

Sending community organizers out across Florida to promote new ordinances at the county level while refusing to even set standards for utilities who dump the vast majority of Algae causing nitrate contamination into the ground water.

 A judge has now ruled in the publics favor and FDEP will have to at least set standards for nitrate dumping by utilities.

New inferred images of ground water in Florida may be able to help with water conservation.  Stay tuned for more on new nitrate standards.

Often the public is blamed for old bad utility systems that pollute our Water Supplies.

If you don't know about Drainage Wells and Sewer Effluent dumping systems don't worry, it is not your fault.  You have very likely been reading the news paper.

Many of the worst pollution sites are decades old.  No one is to blame.  Cover-ups don't solve the problem.  Harvesting technology is now available to take nutrient rich sewer and storm water to irrigation sites where it does a lot of good.  

Harvested Reuse Water helps in two ways.

1. Gallon for gallon, less water needs to be withdrawn from our Floridan Aquifer.

2. Less contaminates are routed into the aquifer by direct pipes.

We all win.  See images from Space that show our Aquifers.

Information is power.

Editor: Team Conservation Don Browning