Coastal Services welcomes letters to the editor. All letters should carry the writer's address and a daytime telephone number. All letters are subject to editing for length, clarity, libel, and good taste. Pen names are not allowed, and anonymous letters will not be published. By mail, letters should be sent to Coastal Services Editor, NOAA Coastal Services Center, 2234 South Hobson Ave., Charleston, SC 29405-2413, or via e-mail to Hanna.Goss@anoaa.gov.
Thank you for publishing and distributing the informative Coastal Services magazine. The periodical provides current issues that are incorporated within our curriculum to challenge my science students.
The Water Woes (May/June 2003) of the Southwest Florida Water Management District are truly disturbing when a Floridian considers that the adjacent South Florida Water Management District has an average of 1.7 billion gallons a day of fresh water dumped directly into the ocean. Furthermore, Florida loses about 10 percent of its potable water through leaks in pipes.
It's too bad that these Water Management Districts don't use the money to undertake action to improve these drinking water loss statistics instead of erecting desalinization plants.
Don Deresz
Science Teacher
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
