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WRITTEN BY JOHN THOMASON

s soon as he deplaned for his March 2023 lecture at Festival of the Arts Boca, Charles Fishman made a beeline for the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant.You know, as tourists do.

“I find them highly entertaining,” Fishman told the audience, referring—yes, indeed—to wastewater treatment plants. Of course, it’s a good thing somebody finds treatment plants interesting, and there is no better advocate for them than Fishman. The prizewinning journalist and author of The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water came away from his visit with some quietly alarming statistics.

To wit, the average American uses 83 gallons of water per day. A Boca Ratonian uses 254 gallons per day, more than triple the national average—a figure owing largely to our immaculately maintained golf courses and, most especially, our lawns, which we over-water. Fishman, only half-joking, referred to Boca as“crazytown”for our profligate consumption of H20.

Fishman cares about water, and he cares about Florida. He’s essentially a native of the state—he moved to what is now Pinecrest as a first-grader, and attended all of public school in Miami-Dade County. Later, he moved to Central Florida to work for the Orlando Sentinel. Now living in Washington, D.C., the Harvard-educated investigative reporter has written four books, among them One Giant Leap, about the space race.

“I consider myself a Floridian, even though I haven’t lived there since 1993,”he says.“And I have a very vivid sense of the power of water in the Florida landscape.”Weeks after his Festival of the Arts presentation, Fishman joined us via Zoom to continue the discussion.

What were your takeaways from exploring Boca’s water distribution?

Boca residents use two-thirds of their water watering their lawns. And the water utility supplies 33 million gallons a day and only gets back 13 million gallons a day at the wastewater treatment plant. So the math there is very easy. They send out 20 millions gallons a day—almost 1 million gallons an hour—that they don’t get back.

The water is incredibly cheap, and that’s not good, because it sends the message that, why shouldn’t I turn my sprinklers on from midnight to 3 a.m. if I can afford the $60 a month it’s going to cost me? Then there’s this quick argument that, well, it’s going into lawns, so it’s going back into the ground. But the water that you’re using is coming from a kind of deep aquifer. And the water you’re putting back in goes into what’s called the surficial aquifer, near the surface, and not the deep aquifer.

The deep aquifer is the Biscayne aquifer, and it’s the water that supplies Miami up through Palm Beach and the Space Coast. But it’s keeping the seawater out of the aquifer. You don’t want just a little bit of salt in the water you’re watering your tomatoes with, or your grass, or showering, or cleaning your clothes. Saltwater is bad news, and it is challenging and expensive to take out. And once it’s seeping in, there’s no good accessible mechanism for keeping the ocean out. The way you keep the ocean out is the freshwater aquifer is powerful and stable enough so that there’s literally a kind of barrier, a place where they come together.

And in the midst of everything, sea level rise literally increases the pressure on the freshwater aquifers. That’s more ocean pushing against the lake.

The people who run the Boca Raton water utility are really smart.