The Good Ole Wet Days

WGTN video on Lakes Brooklyn & Geneva

Water Reclamation Projects

A couple successful projects to reclaim water that would otherwise be wasted:

• The Wakadotchee Wetlands
• Green Cay

LAWA Meeting: Feb 20, 6pm, Keystone Heights

Dear Members-

We are having our next Lake Area Water Alliance meeting on Monday, February 20^th , 6:00PM at the Woman’s Club.  A lot of things have happened since we met last for us to talk about.  We should have a handle on what course the Management District is heading and need to discuss what our participation strategy will be.  Also, we need to be thinking about fund raising opportunities.  The City still needs $4,000 more from the community to fulfill the contract to Peter so we definitely want to help with that contract.  Peter has been worth every dime to our community.  We have given them $2,000 already and have $4,000 in the bank so we are doing pretty good in meeting our goal of $10,000.

Please send at least one representative to this meeting.  It is important that you come and report back to your organization what we are doing.  It is also important for the Board to have your input so we can truly represent your organization at the Stakeholder meetings.

Thank you for being a leader in our community and standing up for our water rights.

Jackie Host, President

Price of Water is Rising

Trickling rivers and sinking lakes are the most visible examples that the availability of water has passed its peak while demand still grows. The worst threat to water supplies is the overuse of underground reservoirs. Some 30 percent to 40 percent of the world's food is irrigated with groundwater from once-ample aquifers that took millennia to fill. These irreplaceable deposits are being depleted in a matter of decades, leaving behind withering tomato fields in Mexico's Baja California and dusty plains in central India.

Bloomberg article on the Water market