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In a major story online Sunday and in print Monday, the New York Times chronicled the growing mass of green slime on Lake Okeechobee.
VoteWater was featured in the story, which speculated on what it means to South Florida if the lake gets too high and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins discharging water and toxic algae to the coasts.
If you lived here in 2013, 2016 or 2018 you don't need to speculate; you've seen this movie before.
"This has become almost like a permanent condition," said VoteWater Executive Director Gil Smart in the article.
But we will never accept this as the "new normal." VoteWater keeps pushing for more land south of the lake to store and clean water. We need better policy and policy-makers who prioritize the health of our waterways over polluter profits.
We've got a long way to go. So if you can, please donate today and fuel our fight for a day when we don't have to read about an environmental catastrophe in our own backyards in the New York Times - or anywhere else.
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