DID YOU KNOW: The Florida Everglades are the largest and most important freshwater wetlands in North America?
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Restoring America's Everglades is the only way for Florida to ensure the long-term health of its residents, ecosystems, and economy. If properly funded and implemented, the water quality improvement and water storage projects encompassed in Everglades’s restoration will provide a clean water supply for 6 million residents. It's more than just ecosystem health - it's public health! Without restoring the Everglades, the financial cost of supplying our residents and businesses with clean water will be astronomical burden to future generations.
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Water soaks into the soil and rock beneath the land, helping plants grow while providing a drinking source for all the animals that live within the Everglades.
Without water, the marshes would dry up, the river of grass would cease to flow, plants would dry up, the fish would have no home, and the other animals would have no water to drink.
invasions of exotic plants, such as Australian Melaleuca, which deplete the region's water resources and squeeze out the native species on which the rest of the ecosystem depends.
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Additionally, polluted runoff from nearby sugarcane and other agricultural operations as well as encroaching urban sprawl significantly alters the
Everglades' complex and unique water chemistry. Nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus added by human activities cause profound imbalances in the Everglades water chemistry, disrupting native plant communities and altering wildlife habitat.
Over the last century the Everglades have shrunk to less than half their original size as agricultural and residential development in the region (and, in turn, irrigation and flood control demands) have expanded. The process has been accelerated over the last 30 years by the growth of the sugar industry and skyrocketing development of Florida's east coast. Moreover, water is diverted from and sometimes to the Everglades as the needs of these adjacent residential and agricultural uses dictate.
A study commissioned by the Everglades Foundation reported that every dollar committed to Everglade’s restoration will yield a $4 return on investment. In total, this could amount to up $46.5 billion in gains to Florida's economy and the creation of more than 440,000 jobs over the next fifty years.
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Not only does the Everglades supply a large portion of our drinkable water, it also accounts for thousands of jobs annually in the tourism, fishing and hunting industries. It is estimated that a restored Everglades would generate over 40,000 new jobs in the commercial and recreational fish industries, and over 270,000 construction jobs.
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