TALLAHASSEE — Florida has a quandary when it comes to drinking water: Go the relatively cheap and nonintrusive route to preserve enough high-quality stuff to drink, or wait until “big government” has to do it.

Intergovernmental squabbles and Florida’s recent history of dealing with springs protection — such as requiring septic-tank inspections and then repealing them when homeowners complained — suggests Option 2 is on the horizon.

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