Backup Documents 05/14/2013 Item # 4BPROCLAMATION 4 B
WHEREAS, clean, safe and sustainable water resources and supplies are vital to Collier County's
economy, environment and people; and,
WHEREAS, Florida's water supplies are finite, while our population and our need for water resources
continues to increase; and,
WHEREAS, 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 19 -25, 2013 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 prompting water reuse and conservation; and,
WHEREAS, Collier County Public Utilities' Irrigation Quality (IQ) Water program is a leader in the
state by treating and returning over 5.8 billion gallons of IQ water annually to the
community for beneficial reuse, thereby saving 5.8 billion gallons of drinking water from
being used for irrigation; and,
WHEREAS, Collier County Public Utilities and the South Florida Water Management District is 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,
that May 19 -25, 2013 be designated as
WATER REUSE WEEK
DONE AND ORDERED THIS 14'h Day of May, 2013.
BOAR O C UN COMMISSIONERS
COLL E O N , FLORIDA
6EORllIA A. HILLER, CHAIRWOMAN