Backup Documents 05/13/2014 Item # 4C PROCLAMATION }�( C
WHEREAS, clean, safe, and sustainable water resources and supplies are vital to Collier County's
economy, environment, and its people; and
WHEREAS, Florida's water supplies are finite, while our population and our need for water resources
continue to increase; and water reuse provides a means for conserving and augmenting
Florida's precious water resources; and
WHEREAS, Florida has established the encouragement and promotion of water reuse as state
objectives in Chapters 373 and 403, Florida Statutes; and
WHEREAS, Florida's permitted reuse capacity exceeds 1.5 billion gallons per day (over 62 percent of
Florida's total permitted capacity for all domestic wastewater treatment facilities); and
WHEREAS, the state of Florida has declared the week of May 18 - 24, 2014, to be Water Reuse
Week in Florida; and
WHEREAS, Collier County Public Utilities has joined with the state of Florida, the Florida Department
of Environmental Protection, and the South Florida Water Management District in
encouraging and promoting water reuse and conservation; and
WHEREAS, Collier County's Public Utilities'Irrigation Quality (IQ) Water program is a leader in the
state by treating and returning over 5 billion gallons of IQ Water annually to the
community for beneficial reuse, thereby saving billions of gallons of drinking water from
being used for irrigation; and
WHEREAS, Collier County Public Utilities and the South Florida Water Management District are
calling upon each citizen and business to help protect our precious resource by practicing
water conservation and to use reclaimed water in an efficient and effective means.
NOW THEREFORE, be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Collier County,
Florida, do hereby designate the week of May 18 - 24, 2014, as
WATER REUSE WEEK
DONE AND ORDERED THIS 13th Day of May 2014.
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