Saving Florida's Everglades

A brief history of how Florida's Everglades were damaged for decades and a look at the massive government project to save them.

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March 15, 2002, 1:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Reengineering the Everglades

Thursday, March 14, 2002 in Wired

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