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ON ANY GIVEN DAY, STRAIGHT-LINE CANALS flanking narrow roads that thread the Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park host scores of pole fishers.
Shore-bound or boat-mounted, they hoist both pleasure and supper from dark waters often visibly pocked with alligators and adorned with attendant wading birds. Human and other animals have foraged here through 5,000 years of seasons wet and dry, hunting and fishing in a slow-motion water world sliding eternally south, from the big fresh splash of Lake Okeechobee to the fecund salt shallows of Florida Bay.
But nowadays, if they regularly eat what they catch often the case with people and always the case with birds and beasts they risk mercury poisoning.
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SWFL Water Crisis: Projects surrounding Lake Okeechobee planned to restore water flow to the Everglades
Published: April 16, 2021 4:11 PM EDT
Updated: April 16, 2021 6:23 PM EDT
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From Southwest Florida beaches to the shores of Lake Okeechobee and every river and creek in between, water drives the health of the environment, economy, and us.
In Florida, water once slowly flowed from north to south but after what some call “replumbing” water now moves east and west while not enough of it goes south.
Now, there are dozens of projects surrounding Lake Okeechobee in hopes to restore the natural flow.
Projects across the state are in the works to protect water quality and quantity.