Water Pollution Costs Florida More Than $10 Billion A Year

Ashley Lopez — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:47:52 +0000

Local officials around the coast in Florida have already started to deal with the price of sea level rise. Now, another report has put a price tag on the cost of water pollution throughout the state-- the verdict: it's about $10.5 billion a year.

According to the Stockholm Environment Institute, which conducted the study, a lot of the pollution we are dealing with in our water comes from human activities.