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The Everglades Need More Fresh Water. Here’s What’s Being Done to Help.
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The health of the Everglades’ ecosystem—consisting of saw-grass wetlands and mangroves at the southern end of Florida—is in danger. The area’s flora and fauna are dependent on a supply of fresh water from a watershed near Orlando, farther north. But over the past 100 years, that water flow, specifically at Lake Okeechobee, has been interrupted by man-made efforts to control flooding and expand agriculture. The end result: less than half of the necessary fresh water ever reaches Florida Bay.
In this new release from and , Follow the Water, Orvis’s Simon and Hannah Perkins meet up with , , and along the length of the Everglades’ watershed to discuss what can be done to get more fresh water flowing south.