Debra Burden is the idea person in the Water Conservation section of the Department of Water Resources in Citrus County, Florida, and the impact of her ideas and of the work of her water conservation team is real and measurable.
Tens of millions of gallons of water in the county is being saved every year through their efforts, thereby forestalling the time when water availability in the West-Central Florida coastal county will become a critical issue.
“We know we have enough water to meet our current demand and future demands for 20 years,” Burden says. “At the end of that 20-year period,
