If you live in Florida, you’ve probably enjoyed our many wonderful beaches, rivers, canals, lakes, streams and more. Floridians love their water! Right now, our State agencies are moving to harm Florida’s waters, which are the primary feature of our vacation capital of the world.
The Right to Clean Water is a movement to bring an initiative to amend Florida’s Constitution to the voters in November 2024, so the PEOPLE can decide whether we should hold our State agencies accountable for the harm to Florida’s waters.
The importance of we, the people, bringing this amendment to the table is that the legislator or governor won’t be able to undermine the will of the voters for this initiative.This amendment is specifically drafted to be self-executing, which means it does not need further legislation to implement it or enable its intended effects. Likewise, drafters paid intricate attention and researched bodies of law relevant to how every word could be interpreted by courts.
The amendment creates a fundamental right to clean and healthy waters, clarifies prohibited actions and inactions that harm (or threaten to harm) waters, and defines important terms. It also allows Floridians to enforce this right through the ability to sue state executive agencies that violate this right, empowering courts to look at the science and truth (and not politics) of what’s going on before awarding equitable relief to the situation.
To learn more about this amendment, or better yet, SIGN THE PETITION to put this amendment on the ballot in November 2024, CLICK HERE.