Issues and Ideas

Water Use Efficiency
We’re not just asking you to conserve water. Miami-Dade County is implementing various programs to make water use more efficient, through alternative water supplies, reuse water projects and the water conservation program. Water availability is crucial to keep up with the County’s current and future residents.

Several incentive programs have been implemented to encourage the efficient use of water. They include: plumbing retrofits, landscape irrigation evaluations and residential and commercial water use evaluations and rebates.

Read Miami-Dade’s Water Use Efficiency Plan


Water Loss Reduction
By supplying water in a sustainable manner and reducing and controlling losses, the recovered losses become a major alternative source of water that will save more money than developing expensive new water supplies. 

Miami-Dade County has an aggressive water loss reduction program and it has currently enhanced this program as part of the 20-Year Water Use Permit. Through this aggressive program, Miami-Dade will be able to provide over 14.25 million gallons of water per day by 2017.

Read Miami-Dade’s Water Loss Reduction Plan


20- Year Water Use Permit
Miami-Dade County’s Water-Use Efficiency 20-Year Plan was created to ensure long-range water savings -- over one million gallons a day for the next 20 years.

- Accommodating future economic development and population growth while protecting our water resources.

- Reducing or deferring the cost of maintaining and expanding water delivery, treatment, and disposal systems

- Reducing energy and maintenance costs of County Water and Sewer Department facilities.

Read Miami-Dade’s 20-Year Water Use Permit (WUP)

Making WaterSense
Even the simplest changes can yield big results. For example, screwing on WaterSense-labeled faucet aerators, which cost only a few dollars apiece, can reduce a household's water use by more than 500 gallons a year and save enough energy to power a hair dryer for eight minutes a day for a whole year. It's a simple equation: using less water saves money, conserves energy, and ultimately protects both resources for the future.

- Find WaterSense labeled products (WUP)