Water in Naples and collier

Did you know that 70% of the potable water used in Naples is for landscaping? That 60% of the water use in the county is for watering landscape? We are not going to run out of drinking water if we can cut back on the landscape use.

When we get into watering restrictions in mid December you are going to see some watering on regular days and wonder how they are getting away with that. Probably what is happening is they are using recycled water. This is still permitted and for a good reason. We need to keep water flowing down into the ground and replenishing the aquifer. If the aquifer gets too low, sea water could seep into it and that water intrusion would have a tendency to get bigger and would ruin the aquifer. That would be catastrophic. We would then be out of water forever.
When the once a day water restriction starts I was told that there will be no warnings given and the fines could be up to $500 each incident. Out of town residents will NOT get a pass. This is serious business and in December watering is scheduled at this time to be only Saturday and Sunday mornings between 4 am and 8 am. I already hear people complaining about lack of pressure etc if everyone waters at the same time. If things do not improve we may see no watering in Jan or Feb.