What the fuck are you talking about, on the beaches, water hits the cement when it rains and flows to the lowest spot, usually a storm water drain and flows off to the  gulf or the Atlantic. If you have water pooling on your property you’re an idiot and deserve the Zika you’ll get from the state bird, the mosquito. The beach communities for the most part are barrier islands and consist of compacted sand. I live on one of them in Pinellas. that specific  water doesn’t go into the aquifer, hence why there’d aren’t sinkholes on the beaches. The taxes you speak of were a tool for SWFWMD and the other regional agencies and local governments to fund themselves. We had way above average rainfall this last year which more than makes up the lack of rain the year before, yet they still restrict water. Don’t get me wrong there are other reasons not to use pavers and the like, mainly lack of native vegetation for the critters. Most massholes and other northerners that flee to this fine state FUCKING LOVE THEIR PRETTY GREEN GRASS AND USE WAY TOO MUCH DAMNED FERTILIZER. Thus really fucking up the ecosystem. And everybody waters thier pretty green grass. And those same idiot massholes and such do it smack in the middle of the day and THAT evaporates off.. zeroscaping with native plants solves all of this....  Even better is the dumbass EPA under Obama stopping the sugar fields from evaporating off thier runoff from the fields in retention ponds and being forced to let that water flow into Okechobee and creating the awesome toxic green algae. That is why the problem started all of a sudden, and that is why the libtard media won’t say why, god forbid Mr. Potatohead did something incredibly stupid in the name of eco justice...And don’t forget mote marine dumping barges full of iron oxide into the gulf to track the Gulf Stream and shockingly massive flare ups of red tide happen around election time almost every time (while blaming the conservatives) and amazingly clear up after it’s over...but I digress... The mainland natural rain storage you speak of, the main aquifer running from Just south of St Johns and flowing to the Everglades has been manipulated by canals thus interrupting the natural flow. This is the problem and finally the state is doing something about it. Granted, this state is pathetically overdeveloped especially southern Florida...