It would be laughable if it wasn’t so insulting. But don’t take our word for it.
"It is crazy — totally crazy," Robert Knight, executive director of the Florida Springs Institute, told Politico, which first reported the story.
“It’s a ridiculous proposal from an environmental perspective and from a cost perspective,” Ryan Smart, executive director of the Florida Springs Council, told The Sun.
Even members of the water district’s governing board questioned the idea.
"You just start to wonder when you start to mess around with Mother Nature like this what the unintended consequences are," board member Virginia Sanchez said.