Editorial – Citizen Times – June 5, 2011

The best advice we can give the federal task force studying how best to repair damage from the BP oil spill? Get the water right. That's what task force members were told last week at the Saenger Theatre, and it is sound advice. If we do the things that make our bays and bayous and rivers clean and healthy, the Gulf of Mexico will be clean and healthy, too. The Gulf is the leading producer of fin fish, shrimp and oysters in the United States, the task force was told — and it all starts with healthy water. [...] It starts with a massive effort to restore nature's "kidneys" — the wetlands and marshes and marine grasses that have disappeared from across the Gulf Coast. For full opinion, click here.