"It's kind of a bad omen, " said Dave Arnold, a hydrogeologist who has surveyed sinkholes for the Southwest Florida Water Management District.
We also talk with Cynthia Barnett, author of Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern United States.
Top holdings include a water and sewer revenue bond issued by Miami-Dade County, Florida, an Atlanta, Georgia Water and Waste Revenue Bond, and a New Jersey Health Care Authority Revenue bond.
But the recent death of a 13-year-old at a pool in Florida has experts concerned about water safety for pre-teens and adolescents.
He doubled his order ahead of the New Year so that his toys were on the water and headed to Florida before the holiday even started.
Another ship, the Carnival Legend, is en route from Tampa, Florida, to bring additional food and water to the Triumph on Monday afternoon, the Coast Guard said.
While Sandy visited devastation on the East Coast, principally New Jersey and New York, it created wind gusts as far west as Wisconsin and as far north as Canada and caused water levels to rise from Florida to Maine, the center found.
Florida is suing Georgia for diverting too much water to Atlanta.
But there is concern in the US that a deep water spill could devastate the coast of Florida.
She discusses Florida's Lake Okeechobee, a reservoir where water levels have fallen so low that fires recently broke out on the lakebed.
This exclusive 450 acre country club community in South Florida, has 700 estates, many on deep-water and golf course lots.
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Declared one of three wetlands of global importance by Unesco in 1971, the Everglades is also the source of drinking water for approximately five million people in south Florida.
Experts say much of Florida sits on a system of limestone caverns which are subject to water erosion, causing them to collapse.
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Once endangered, the Florida alligator has made a comeback and can be found in county water bodies, according to Pinellas County's Animal Services website.
In fact, people have been drinking such water in other parts of the state, and similar water reclamation programs are also under way in Virginia, Texas and Florida.
The 33 turtles had been rescued more than three months ago by federal officials and state wildlife authorities from Louisiana, Florida and Georgia, as well as the Riverhead Foundation and the In-Water Research Group.
In the days prior, Ryan Bresette had put up several messages and photos on Facebook about the family's vacation in Destin, Florida -- including several showing two of his sons playing in the Gulf water, with no one else in sight.
Jenn Suhr wanted to spend their short vacation time in Florida riding roller-coasters at Disney World, while her husband preferred to visit some water parks.
The RESTORE Act, which Landrieu sponsored and Congress approved last year, dictates that 80 percent of the Clean Water Act penalties paid by BP be divided among Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas.
"We don't take ourselves too seriously, " said Florida Gulf Coast coach Andy Enfield, whose players tossed him in the air and doused him with water in a raucous celebration before his postgame interviews.
Teens design pedal-powered filtration system: High-schoolers Payton Karr and Kiona Elliot , from Oakland Park, Florida , led a team of inventors who designed a collapsible, transportable, bicycle-powered emergency water-sanitation station that filters E. coli and other harmful pathogens from contaminated water.
Atlanta's water supply relies on two rivers that have their source in Georgia before flowing into the neighbouring states of Florida and Alabama.
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Thomas the Apostle School in Miami, Florida , whose city-design, Infinitum X, earned them a Future City National Award for Best Management of Water Resources.
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