2025 Handbook of Florida Water Regulation: Florida Springs and Aquifer Protection Act

Release Date: 2/17/2026

DOI: 10.32473/edis-fe1019-2021

Agriculture

Abstract

This handbook is designed to provide a summary of the principal federal and state (Florida) laws that directly or indirectly relate to agriculture. Because these laws are subject to constant revision, portions of the handbook could become outdated at any time. The reader should use it as a means to determine areas in which to seek more information and as a brief directory of agencies that can help answer more specific questions.

About this Publication

This document is FE1019, one of a series of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date July 2017. Revised April 2021 and August 2025. Please visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

How to Cite

Borisova, T., Olexa, M. T., & Caracciolo, J. (2021). 2021 Handbook of Florida Water Regulation: Florida Springs and Aquifer Protection Act. EDIS, 2021(3), 4. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fe1019-2021

Authors

Michael Olexa

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University of Florida

professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics, and director, UF/IFAS Center for Agricultural and Natural Resource Law, and member, Florida Bar

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Weizhe Weng

former assistant professor, environmental and natural resource economics, Department of Food and Resource Economics; assistant professor, University of Guelph Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Sean M. Olevnik

student, UF Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL

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