Your water department: Thank you for conserving, but now we have to charge you more.
Quote of the Week: The perception of people out there – they think we suck. Public Service Commissioner Nancy Argenziano on the public’s view of the recent antics of the PSC dining and partying with executives of the very businesses they are supposed to regulate. Argenziano is right – we do think they suck.
Tarballs come from oil spills, and can make your day at the beach even more adventurous.
Tree huggers gathered in opposition to big oil, and drove their gas-guzzlers four blocks to do so.
Craig Pittman notes that Tampa Bay Water has had a couple of problems with their big-ticket items: Over the past decade, Tampa Bay Water has built three big, expensive facilities to slake the thirst of a growing region — only to see all three run into problems: It’s desalination plant was years late and millions over budget. [...]
It’s dry. Boy, is it dry. Early May in Florida is, as Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin used to say, “the peak of the dry”. Although I’ve designed my gardens to withstand drought, I can still see some signs of suffering, especially among the new plants I just couldn’t help putting in during March’s glorious weather. [...]
Tuesday morning, Pinellas County took 2,600 acres of the Brooker Creek Preserve for its water systems. About 900 of those acres will be destroyed for multi-story buildings, chemical storage, parking lots, service roads and reservoirs. But they promise to only use about 260 acres. Of course, promises and government don’t always go together. Howard Troxler notes [...]
Apparently we can add Jennifer Closshey and her family to the list of local high water users. The use of over half a million gallons of water over the past year makes the Closshey family 10th highest in Plant City, and among the top 50 in all of Hillsborough County. Why would we single out Jennifer [...]
Whenever we have to conserve water, news outlets love to point out those high-profile names that are using more than their fair share. ABC Action News published lists of top water users for each area, and stories told by the St. Pete Times, My Fox Tampa Bay and others pointed out that the Don Wallace [...]
