Water Supply In The Everglades

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The water supply has affected the Everglades in a negative way. With chemicals being dumped in, the land being altered so it can be agriculture-ready, and droughts in the Everglades leaving the people with no water. The cost is also very expensive to fix the Everglades to be as good as it was before. The Everglades have many inhabitants and “even the smallest change can have a large impact.
Companies like the ones that make sugar are discarding waste into the Everglades. The animals cannot drink clean water because of this. In the passage “Can We Fix the Water Supply?” Says that they dump chemicals and excess amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus from sugar cane into the delicate ecosystem instead of fresh, clean water. In addition the passage