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Citrus County Water Conservation Manager Debra Burden and her team (from left) water conservation specialists Ed Bugbee, Tom McConnell, Reg West and Florida-Friendly Landscaping Program coordinator Steve Davis. The group is standing in the Florida-Friendly learning landscape garden that is used as a teaching tool to show people what plants are beneficial to their environment. (Photography by Stephen J. Shaner)
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...