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South Florida Water Shortage -

30 Dec 2025 1:16 PM | Anonymous

water, water, everywhere, BUT will we have enough drinking water!


Climate change, development boom, and over exploitation of groundwater are draining the Sunshine State. And frequent water leaks? Especially hard hit is South Florida.


We can no longer take our water supply for granted. Sea

levels in coastal regions have already risen greatly in the last few decades, pushing salt water into groundwater, expensive to treat to make it “potable.”  

Kermit H Lewin Stock Island  

Desalinization Plant, creating water safe to drink from salt water



And think of all the continual growth in the Homestead area - using the same water source we use.


As an island community we have plenty of salt water.  There seems to be a plan to build more desalination plants in the Keys to create potable water from salt water. But desalinization plants have significant environmental impacts, including harm to marine ecosystems, high energy consumption, and the production of concentrated brine, which can disrupt local habitats.


Perhaps the better solution is controlling the volume of water through controlling growth and through conservation of the resource.  The amount of water used per single family home has increased dramatically in recent years.


Islamorada Rate Study: The Village EDU study currently underway will demonstrate just how much potable water the average single-family home uses now compared to the 157 gal/day that was documented in Islamorada 20 years ago.
 



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