Author Question: To provide south Florida with water during its winter dry season, the Everglades Restoration Plan ... (Read 88 times)

asan beg · **on:** Jul 16, 2018

To provide south Florida with water during its winter dry season, the Everglades Restoration Plan calls for

A) strict water conservation in farming and urban areas during the dry months.
B) directing water away from Everglades National Park into reservoirs for urban and farm use.
C) directing more water into the Everglades flow system and building underground reservoirs.
D) digging canals to bring in additional water from the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.

Question 2

One of the major goals of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) is to

A) pump excess water out of the Everglades system into the Atlantic.
B) drain Lake Okeechobee to increase the amount of water in the Everglades wetlands.
C) redirect water southward to provide water for cities and farms and restore some of the drained wetlands.
D) expand the agricultural region from 550,000 to 900,000 acres.