Polk Regional Water Cooperative

The State of Florida has made the planning and management of sustainable water resources one of its top environmental and legislative priorities. In Polk County, we also know something needs to be done if we are going to ensure the future of our precious water supply and responsibly meet the individual and regional water supply needs of our communities. In 2017, working together to address our future water supply needs, Polk County and its fifteen municipal governments agreed to form a new agency to lead planning for our collective future water supply needs. That agency is the Polk Regional Water Cooperative (PRWC). PRWC’s role is to proactively identify alternative water sources and projects that will protect and sustain our future regional water supply. PRWC will specifically identify sustainable groundwater sources, develop strategies to meet our future water demands, determine needed infrastructure for treatment and distribution, and establish consistent rules for fairly meeting all water supply needs across the County. Oversight of PRWC is solely in the hands of the elected officials from the sixteen Polk County member governments.