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Healthy drinking water.
Don’t take it for granted.
Sweet Success
Everglades Restoration
Breakthrough
U.S. Sugar, the nation’s largest producer
The Water Ionizer
of cane sugar, has announced that it is
leaving the Everglades, selling nearly
The Ultimate in Healthy Drinking Water
300 square miles of land to the state of
Florida for Everglades restoration. This
So much more than just
solves two major problems at once,
filtered water - it’s the future!
says Stuart Appelbaum, in charge of the
Hard to believe the water is that good!
project for the Army Corps of Engi-
neers. It reconnects Lake Okeechobee
to the Everglades and halts the flow of
The Water Ionizer produces:
pollution from the lake to the Caloosa-
• antioxidant water
hatchee and St. Lucie rivers. Activists
• high pH alkaline water
say that changing the flow will provide
wildlife habitat, replenish parcel farm-
• antibacterial cleansing water
land, protect coastal estuaries, and put
the ‘river’ back into the River of Grass.
Ask about our rental program!
It’s the largest step forward yet, and a
needed jumpstart in the stalled $10-bil-
lion Everglades restoration project.
239.471.0255 Office
Florida Governor Charlie Crist gets
credit for the quantum leap forward
239.471.0256 Fax
in proposing the deal. His brainstorm
came in response to the company’s
theofficialwaterionizer.com plea of impending financial ruin after
Earthjustice and the South Florida
Water Management District determined
to stop its corporate practice of back-
pumping dirty farm runoff into Lake
Okeechobee. The $1.75 billion buyout
plan for 187,000 acres will see the sug-
ar growing and processing operations
shut down over the next five years.
Truly wonderful
the mind of a child is.
-Yoda, Star Wars Episode II
22 Collier / Lee Counties
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