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8 <br />WHEREAS, Orange County seeks to ensure that the demand for potable water supplies <br />generated by the County's existing population as well as population growth and <br />development can be reconciled with availability of those supplies; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County seeks to ensure the responsible. and farsighted use of effective but <br />relatively simple strategies and technology exist to reduce demand and enhance <br />availability of potable water supplies for the County's existing population as well <br />as population growth; and <br />WHEREAS, The citizens of Orange County are provided municipal water utility services by the <br />Town of Hillsborough, Orange Water and Sewer Authority, the City of Durham, <br />the City of Mebane and the Orange-Alamance Water System; and <br />WHEREAS, the water distribution systems of the Town of Hillsborough, Orange Water and <br />Sewer Authority, the City of Durham, the City of Mebane and the Orange- <br />Alamance Water System are interconnected; and <br />WHEREAS, in time of need, treated water has been and is still transferred to, between and <br />through the water distribution systems of the Town of Hillsborough, Orange Water <br />and Sewer Authority, the City of Durham, the City of Mebane and the Orange- <br />Alamance Water System; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County participates in an ongoing dialogue with the Town of Hillsborough, <br />Orange Water and Sewer Authority, the City of Durham, the City of Mebane and <br />the Orange-Alamance Water System about watershed protection, water <br />conservation and extension of utilities; and <br />NOW, THEREFORE, do we, the Orange County Board of Commissioners, hereby resolve to <br />request and recommend that all of the major water utility providers to the citizens of Orange <br />County (the Town of Hillsborough, Orange Water and Sewer Authority, the City of Durham, the <br />City of Mebane and the Orange-Alamance Water System) and all individual citizens whose <br />homes and businesses are provided potable water supplies by ground water wells continue to be <br />mindful of the need to conserve potable water supplies and seek out, implement and use those <br />readily available and simple strategies and technology that will reduce our demand for potable <br />water supplies to the extent practicable. <br />This is the 6th day of November, 2002 <br />Barry Jacobs, Chair <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />