Saving Florida's Everglades

"Scientists and engineers and politicians are still bothering with the details, but everyone agrees upon one fact: You can't just 'go back to nature.'The population of Florida has spread out as it's grown over the past hundred years, and in many places these days there's no nature to go back to. Instead, you have to bulldoze this land back to its original ecological function, Roto-Rooter the planet's plumbing, rethink and redesign and rebuild it. The plan calls for rechanneling a major river, transforming Florida's natural aquifer into a hundred billion-gallon freshwater storage tank, and developing a new type of filtration system that meets the toughest water-quality standards on earth."