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Article: Florida's water future: a legislative proposal for the distribution of water resources in Florida.
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- Florida Bar Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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Florida has a seeming abundance of water,(1) receiving an average of 175 billion gallons per day.(2) In addition, Florida's aquifers(3) contain more than a quadrillion gallons of water, which is 30,000 times the average daily discharge of Florida's 13 largest rivers.(4) Florida has 1,700 streams and rivers and 7,800 freshwater lakes.(5) Florida withdraws only 18 billion gallons of water per day,(6) only 7.5 billion gallons of which is fresh water.(7)
The apparent abundance of water in Florida is misleading. The water in Florida is generally located at a significant distance from densely populated areas. The population in Florida is mainly concentrated along its ...