Knowledge of Groundwater Responses--A Critical Factor in Saving Florida's Threatened and Endangered Species Part I: Marine Ecological Disturbances

Florida's marine species are subjected to adverse environmental conditions due to groundwater alterations because agencies charged with implementing and enforcing the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act fail to consider those impacts. Bacchus addresses the implications of anthropogenic groundwater alterations in Florida and the role of those alterations as potential causal factors in the myriad unexplained disease outbreaks and deaths of marine organisms in Florida since 1980. (Part 1 in a series)