Episode 100: Chris Wittman - Captains for Clean Water

Chris Wittman grew up fishing every second he could. He never
thought of becoming a fishing guide until he became one in 2000.
This was the same year The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration
Plan was signed into law by Governor Jeb Bush and President
Clinton, which was a financial engine that was designated to save
the Everglades. Invaluable clean water is paramount to insure the
future of wildlife, birds and fish, and regain its lost prominence.
The Everglades is one of our countries most treasured national
parks and was rapidly dying. Over the next sixteen years the war
over water was real and the flora and fauna of Florida was losing
out to big sugar. In 2016, Lake Okeechobee was overwhelmed with
green toxic water and billions of gallons were released into the
St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee Rivers emptying into the Atlantic
Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. It killed everything living in the water
that was exposed to it. Even local riverside communities suffered
the effects of the deadly water. Chris Wittman and Daniel Andrews
quit their jobs as fishing guides to build an army to challenge the
status quo in Tallahassee and help restore the clean water that was
being misappropriated to the sugar industry. Through Chris
Wittman, here is the story of Captains for Clean Water.