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Regulatory agencies exist to regulate the amount of harm that our springs experience, not to protect those springs from harm.

/ The Fellowship of the Springs take viewers into the wonder and beauty of Florida's unique but troubled springs. Florida has the largest and highest concentration of fresh water springs on earth, and the fight to save them is raging. Many of Florida’s springs are at risk, largely from a combination of reduced water flow and increased pollution. Thomas Greenhalgh risked his job and career in 2019 when he sued his own employer, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, to challenge the state’s plans to protect Florida’s imperiled springs from increasing pollution. Greenhalgh, ...

It was Voltaire’s “Candide” that reminded us to tend to one’s own garden. Whether he meant taking care of the Garden of Eden, or the small portion of the world that is closest and dearest to each of us, we are drawn to the importance of helping to make the world healthier and safer in our relatively small local area of personal influence.  In that regard, the Florida Springs Institute just completed a three-year study of our home river and springs — namely, the lower Santa Fe River, from Worthington Spring at the State Road 121 bridge, downstream to the river’s confluence with th...