Water & Wastewater System Operations

Facts & Figures

The most common substance found on earth is Water. The earth’s surface consists of 80% water and  of all the earth’s water, 97% is ocean or seas. Another
2% of the world’s water is frozen and therefore unusable.

We drink very little of our drinking water. Generally speaking, less than 1% of the treated water produced by water utilities is actually consumed. The rest goes on lawns, in washing machines, and down toilets and drains.

For the price of a single 12-ounce can of soda -- about 50 cents -- many communities deliver up to 1,000 gallons of fresh, clean drinking water to homes 24 hours a day. If drinking water and soda pop were equally costly, your water bill would skyrocket more than 10,000%.

If everyone in the United States flushed the toilet just one less time per day, we could save a lake full of water about a mile long, a mile wide, and four feet deep every day.

There's as much water in the world today as there was thousands of years ago. Actually, it's the same water. The water from your faucet could contain molecules that dinosaurs drank .

The US daily average of water pumped by public water supply systems is 185 gallons per person.

Water freezes at 32 degrees F, 0 degrees C, and  water vaporizes at 212 degrees F, 100 degrees C.

A person can live without water approximately one week, depending upon conditions.

The first water pipes  in the US were made from Fire charred bored logs

The average water usage for an automatic dishwasher is  9-12 gallons

The average water usage for hand washing dishes is 9-20 gallons

One gallon of water weighs  8.34 pounds

The weight of water in one cubic foot : 62.4 pounds

The water used during the growing/production of a single orange: 13.8 gallons

The water used during the growing/production of a watermelon: 100 gallons

Facts About Florida's Water

Twenty five percent of the water used to irrigate the more than 1,100 golf courses in Florida was obtained from reclaimed wastewater.

Nearly 90 percent of the 16 million residents of Florida obtain their drinking water from public supply water systems.

Facts About Hernando County Wells

West Hernando consists of 47 wells. These wells have a combined design capacity of 44.753 MGD ( million gallons per day).

East Hernando consists of 10 wells. These wells have a combined designed capacity of 3.268 MGD. Other District Systems consist of 7 wells with a combined design capacity of 1.462 MGD.

Hernando Counties Total Capacity = 49.483 Million Gallons per Day.

Facts About the Hernando County Distribution System
Hernando County has....

• 1,115 miles of water mains
• 5,570 water valves
• 59,370 active accounts.