This Week in South Florida: Eric Eikenberg

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. — As Marjorie Stoneman Douglas once famously wrote, “There is only one Everglades.”

Keeping the Everglades alive and healthy takes a constant flow of water south from Lake Okeechobee.

And then there are the growers, and big sugar, who are in this case the competing interests in a senate bill that would have given them first dibs on that lake water.

Hundreds of South Florida boaters converged on the state capitol last week to object and leading them was Everglades Foundation President Eric Eikenberg.

He joined This Week in South Florida hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg to discuss, and their conversation can be seen at the top of this page.

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Michael Putney

Michael Putney

Michael Putney came to Local 10 in 1989 to become senior political reporter and host of "This Week In South Florida with Michael Putney." He is Local 10's senior political reporter. 

Glenna Milberg

Glenna Milberg

Emmy award-winning journalist Glenna Milberg joined Local 10 News in September 1999. She hosts "This Week in South Florida", South Florida’s highest-rated, most-watched public affairs program, anchors Local 10 World News Weekends, and covers South Florida's top stories and big issues for Local 10 News.