The Water State - A Project Paradise Film
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- From the nonprofit conservation organization, Project Paradise, comes the film, The Water State, which illustrates how Florida’s governmental protections have failed to protect the state’s precious freshwater springs, which are now facing imminent extinction. The aquifer system underlying Florida’s springs is the main source of freshwater for the state.
The short documentary explores Florida’s state-controlled water management districts’ excessive approval of water-drawing permits. The Water State profiles the story of a particularly controversial permit that the district awarded to Nestle Waters North America. The water permit, which cost $115, allows the multinational corporation to pump up to one million gallons of water per day out of Ginnie Springs.
The film discusses the failure of governmental water protections in Florida, the inherent bias of the water management districts, and summarizes the intricate legal battle over the future of Florida’s spring water. The outcome of the lawsuit, initiated by the Florida Springs Council, could soon seal the fate of Florida’s springs and aquifers.
Project Paradise co-founder, Kent Anderson, believes this film will encourage Floridians to consider whether current governmental protections are enough to preserve the springs and Florida’s other natural resources.
“If our rivers and springs dry up, it’s game over for Florida. Florida will experience a deficit of usable fresh water.” says the film’s director, Brent Fannin. “If Floridians knew what was happening to their water supply, I believe they would demand change.”
Nestle has always shown a deep commitment to supporting harmful and unethical practices.
I pay close to $500 a year in permits to simply educate the public on Florida's ecology. $115 permit to destroy it, while making an insane profit... Simply mind boggling.
May I ask what you do for work? What is the permit for?
@@emendoz1 Chase is depicting an analogy of what NESTLE' is doing to Ginnie Springs in FL.
Not what he is doing personally.
Did you watch the film ?
Entiendo ?
@@huckleberryfinn2908 thanks for the clarification.
@@huckleberryfinn2908 You would ask entiendes? Entiendo means I understand.
Such an important video! Please everyone sign the Right to Clean water petition which could prevent future damage to water. I do not think the water belongs to the residents of Florida, it belong to planet earth which we need to protect. Thank you for your work.
I posted the petition link above
A documentary with such importance got a few thousands views while it deserves millions of views n likes ,
Thank you for such great documentary 💖👏🌹
No, thank you for the kind words!
It deserves most a few hundred views from Florida's governor (ha!) and the legislators that rubber-stamp his bullsh*t agenda, as well as the members of every WMD board. The appointment system for these boards and many others, as well as the courts, has been totally corrupted by said legislators and governors over the years.
Thank you for doing this. Came to florida almost 20 years ago and felt in love with the springs the first time I went to Ichetucknee. Now we kayak and every time feel the magic of the springs. We don’t buy bottle water. Write to our government, we can’t loose the magic of the springs. The time to act is now.
Say no to Nestle and any other company that want to take advantage of our resources. Thank you!
I love it. The Iche is one of my favorite rivers and I'm glad it means so much to you too. Together we can make the changes that need to happen!
Nestle has plenty of money to buy your elected officials. Never happen.
This is an outrage!!!! I had no idea!
It's crazy isn't it? 21+ million people in Florida and most have no idea.
Thanks for this great video about Florida losing its wonderful water resources. Hopefully we can do something before it is too late.🙏
Cool little intro doc . "Fellowship of the springs" is still the king of the in depth FL water exploitation documentaries, well worth a rent
I've seen it multiple times already! It definitely does a deep dive.
Florida is so magical 🥹 it makes me proud to say I grew up hear and I am terrified for what big corporate companies may do to this beautiful state . Protect our natural resources !!
I worked 30 years at two different Phosphate companies ,they don't care about any thing but money...
Unbelievable how many people still buy water from Nestle and others that belongs to them!
The thing is that Nestle owns everything.
We have to educate the people to Vote with their dollar & to Boycott Multi-National Corporations.
@@andyluis6337not rain water and local farm produce 😊
Here in Arizona water is important since this is a desert, we have a similar issue with water, where private interest are winning the water wars and taking more than they should
Great job you all!! Very well done! Thank you all so much for all of your work and for this film!!
You're welcome and thank you for the support!
❤ I’ve been to White Springs and it was sad to see the change in the water level. It needs to be a tourist destination with an education of the importance of preserving our springs. My family and I camped at Ginnie Springs for many years and when the younger generation of the owners took over it ruined it.
It would be pretty incredible if White Springs became an educational exhibit. It's the perfect visual example of how destructive the last few decades have been for our springs and rivers.
🚣🏊🏄♀🐳🐋🐬🐟🦎🌿🌲🪰🦊🦬🙏Thank you from all of us 😊
I'm going to send this to everyone I know
😡 this is disgusting! Who got kickbacks? That money belongs to Floridians!!!! This needs to stop!
This is great!!! Very well put together, and the imagery was stunning! Love to see the work you’re doing!
Thanks so much! We worked very hard on it.
From Florida. Thank you for this. Subscribed
When are people going to collectively open our eyes?
I would love to work in water conservation. I live in Sarasota where the County seems to be polluting Phillipi Creek where I live .. we need to hold government responsible for protecting our waters.
As long as there’s money to be made, payoffs to politicians, officials, corps, mines, things will not change. Exploitation and destruction. And it’s so true- the word ‘Wetiko’ describes it all. To Boycott can sometimes work.
this is fucking nuts how cheap it is for them you could tax them 50% and they'd still be making loads of profit
Excellent presentation. Thank you.❤
Glad you liked it!
Great video ❤
Thank you!
A little biased but good and important work guys!!!
So many people moving to Florida. All the springs will dry up one day. Major pollution.
This should be common sense, save the FL. I go to FL once a year for vacation and I want FL to to stay beautiful (water).
Agreed. I think it is common sense that we should protect water, and that's why I made this doc. I believe things will change if people know there's an issue. But currently, we're trusting in our government officials way too much. They've been working against the interest of the public for years and it's time we held them accountable.
Absolutely beautiful . Congrats on an amazing documentary.
Thank you!!
Wonderful film! Please tell us, how can I/we help??
I recommend looking up the Florida Springs Council and supporting them! There are also many other organizations like the Florida Springs Institute, Current Problems, and Our Santa Fe River who all do great things for Florida’s water.
Great short doc. Sure hope the case goes in favor of water and nature, and not evil Nestle who's former CEO Brabeck-Letmathe called the idea that water is a human right "extreme.." Citizens need to wrangle control of our resources back from these greedy corporations. Every bottle of water should be taxed heavily. Plus there should be a tax on companies who use plastic and they should be required to pay for every bottle to be returned to them. Not a deposit that the consumer pays, but one the company pays.
All good ideas!
It’s not just the multimillion dollar corps, look how much your local farmers draw with turret systems. Then look at that same draw out west and what that looks like now. Also ☝️ while plasticulture farmers use less, they burn the plastics in the field where it lies, polluting the soil and water system at the surface and aquifer. There is not law prohibiting this. The only way to stop it is to come up with a profitable solution that incentivizes the recycling of said plastics.
Wacissa springs and Jefferson county fla stopped nestle from taking from the wacissa River.
Don’t drink bottled water ever!
There really isn't any point to it anymore other than convenience.
Nice video into water nature. Congrats!
Great doc guys.... And a rightful cause. Now i know better, why Nestle is hated.
Thank you!
Super important and critical information for those of us living in Florida! Why are the voices of indigenous folks not included in this documentary? Native people, who have been here in Florida long before "settlement" have been advocates of protecting the environment before most people wanted to acknowledge the truth of their message. Corporate greed is just regular old human greed - just better organized.
I have boycotted nestle for this reason for years, it's not much but it's the little I can do.
I'm so tired of arrogant disrespectful companies and politicians walking over the people, they are supposed to work for our best interest.
Thank you for making this video
You're very welcome!
From child labor to stealing water, Nestle sure does love unethical practices
We need to stop letting our wonderful water by over use and greed. We challenged a cattle farm from taking our water out of a spring near me. All of us citizens went against this and won, yet somehow the water was given to the cattle farm. Save Florida Water. 😱
Great film!
Thank you!!
Oregon also.
Let's not fail on this!
Thank you ✨🛶🐟🤿🍊💕
"Corporations are people, too" say the politicians who happily take their huge campaign donations and ignore the little people who can't afford to do the same, thus the government doesn't listen to us.
Good job
There are so many ppl I'd like to kick out of Florida. The vast numbers of ppl moving here and populating is causing this to happen, as is ppl that think they need to buy bottled water. They are turning Florida into a hellscape.
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Stop giving water permits.
They do the same thing in the great lakes. We hate nestles get out.
Tallahassee knows about this I just emailed them
I love it!
great video... i don't know abut the guy narrating the video...a bit heavy
Haha thanks for the feedback. I'll work on it.
Sad .. Floridian's need to see this and understand what our politicians are doing to our water and nature. you can help.. STOP BUYING BOTTLE WATER
And also vote for change!
Is there an update on the court hearing ? ? ?
Not yet. Could take a few months but hopefully sooner.
@@brentnfannin Thank You for replying - I'll look out for updates . Excellent video by the way 😊
@@SageRosemaryTime Thank you very much!
It'll be the underwater state soon enough
Just like the Great Lakes & California! A shell game, which will catch-up with everyone much sooner than they expect. Back in the day, there was a popular international Boycott of Nestle, over their Infant Formula practices. Sounds like it's time to boycott Nestle Water💧🙏
Rainbow river at the begining
Most beautiful river in the country! (my humble opinion)
Liberals ruined it
The people that bitch the loudest are the people that take a sip out of their bottle of water and throw it out. Just stop buying bottle water
1:36 is the kid on the verge of falling down the cliff?
Nah, he's in the water. He can just swim from it.
Do you have this posted on instagram at all? So I’m able to share
12:36 So what was the outcome of the hearing???
The hearing seemed to have gone well but there is no timeline on a judges decision. Typically it will take a couple of months.
What does the governor think about all this? I'm sure he might want to look heavily into this in that he's running for president and trump will use this against him.
The GOP strike again.
Nestle certainly made a big donation to republicans to get these permits.
Nestle paid ALL of somewhere between 2 & 4 hundred a year an hour away from Flint !
And yet you allow leach fields all over where the crap (literally) just drains into the ground (water). Everybody should have a septic tank that has to be pumped out. Then you can put all this nasty stuff in a water treatment plant.
🤦♀️ the world I tell ya . So evil . Don’t buy anything nestle . 😢
Any updates?
Not yet. Could be a few months for the judge to come to a decision.
DeSantis ready to drill holes.
Thought this was going to be about Michigan 😂 great vid, but seeing the direction Florida is currently heading in, I don’t think they could care less about nature as long as they keep electing clowns like DeSantis
"The Fascist State" 🟥⚡️⚡️🟥
Perhaps consumed water might be provided from desalination plants from the sea.
As someone who lives on an island I can tell you desalination is not a sustainable or affordable long term solution to this problem
As someone who lives on an island I can tell you desalination is not a sustainable or affordable long term solution to this problem
As someone who lives on an island I can tell you desalination is not a sustainable or affordable long term solution to this problem
The Army Corps of Engineers controls the Florida ecosystem, and they do what they want. One reason this isn't watched more often is that it's wrong.
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Stuffing political pockets ! BS ☠️
This sound like a liberal.
Liberals are destroying everything
@@julie3895 liberals are bad people who push LGBT
Wheres your science? One million gallons out of 260 million, thats equivalent to 1 ounce out af a 2 gallon jug... Aquifer is a constantly recharging cycle, not static groundwater. Problem is agriculture irrigation pumping and mixing in nitrates, herbicides and pesticides with recharge water.
Regarding the science, I reached out to Dr. Knight from the Florida Springs Institute and this is what he said: "The Seven Springs/Blue Triton permit allows groundwater withdrawals of about 1 million gallons per day or 365 million gallons per year. Average flows at Ginnie Springs have declined since the 1980s by about 50%, to about 22 MGD. This permit authorizes an additional flow reduction of about 4.5% more. This is a measurable impact on Ginnie Spring’s and Santa Fe River’s ecological health. The big picture is that there are nearly 30,000 of these large groundwater extraction permits authorizing an average of 4.5 billion gallons per day from the same aquifer and depleting Florida’s artesian springs. While the Seven Springs/Blue Triton pumping is a small fraction of this total, our springs are literally suffering a “death by a thousand cuts”."
By design yes, we are a water recharge area... but we have over pumped the aquifer. Our springs CURRENTLY have a reduced flow, and upstream of Ginnie the springs are dying. Darby is dead. Darby II dead. Hornsby is stage 4 terminal (70% reduced flow). Poe Spring has stopped flowing several times during recent periods of low water levels. Poe's flow, currently is 40 cfs. 40 yrs ago, Poe was at 72 cfs. More than 60% of Poe's flow is GONE.
If you don't care about springs dying slow death, just the plastic water bottles alone create an environmental challenge. Withdrawing water to place into small plastic bottles which subsequently pollutes our waters, while introducing PFAS, PFOAS, phthalates, polyethylenes, micro plastics, etc. .. JUST so one special interest (Nestle/Blue Triton) can make huge profits ? This makes zero sense.
We've spend literally MILLIONS of dollars on studies and remediation plans, but we IGNORE all the resulting facts. Taxpayers foot the bill to 'study' how to save our endangered waters, but public officials give our water out *free each and every day. It's outrageous. Enough is enough.
When you live here, you can see the springs change by the year. Even if you’re just a casual swimmer. I’ve been here 9 years and I’ve seen it. Too much water taken out. Please rethink your point of view.
Putting a cog in Nestle pumps
All the farm jobs gone timber is right behind it wered the jobs especially in north fla good pauingg jobs non existent not one industry has located to my life long county not one all the farms are gone so what the hell