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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has doubled down on the work his administration had carried out in his first term to improve the Sunshine State’s water quality.
At a Jan. 10 press conference in Bonita Springs, in a restaurant set to reopen after repairing Hurricane Ian’s damage, DeSantis announced an executive order committing another $3.5 billion to water quality projects in the state.
They include restoring the Everglades, improving the freshwater flow to Florida Bay at the state’s southern tip, and protecting the 150-mile-long and biodiverse Indian River Lagoon on the state’s Atlantic Coast.
During his administration’s first term, it spent $3.3 billion on water quality improvements enabled by what DeSantis says was good legislative budgetary management and the state’s growing economy....