What they don't tell you about FL sinkholes. In 2010 growers pumped a billion gallons a day

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68. The madness seems to be everywhere in all areas

Agricultural and farming interests are granted permits to pump ridiculous amounts of groundwater up onto their over fertilized fields whereupon nearby springs such as Silver, Weiki, Rainbow, etc. eventually start pumping out this now phosphate laden H2O thus turning these once pristine, crystal clear springs into algae swamps. Flow rates of these first magnitude, world-class treasures are decreasing every year too.

Yeah, there's been a drought here like many other places in the US, (huh, wonder why?) but when you've seen entire lakes disappear into a crack in the ground over the past few years leaving people's once lakeside docks now high and dry, ya really gotta wonder how much more of a visual is needed for educational purposes.

With it's huge and growing population dependent on little else but this vanishing resource for it's drinking water, something has gotta give - and it will apparently be the ground under people's houses well before any kind of restriction on water usage by corporate/agricultural interests.