Nation IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Measures to Save Everglades Urged
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Calling for “a new plumbing system” for South and Central Florida, a national environmental coalition said the famed Everglades is dying of thirst. Development and drainage have shrunk the Everglades, which once covered most of South Florida, to about 10,000 square miles, only half its original size, the Everglades Coalition said in a report. The prime culprit, according to the coalition, is reduced and altered water flow caused by the flood control and water supply programs begun in 1947.
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