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Dig Deeper into the 2025 Florida Water Industry Survey Results – Urgent Concerns, Readiness, & Planning Trends
August 12, 2025
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- Make Your Voice Count! State of the Water Industry Survey 2025
- The State of the Florida Water Industry Survey: Results Are In!
- Dig Deeper into the 2025 Florida Water Industry Survey Results – Urgent Concerns, Readiness, & Planning Trends
- Now Available: Full 2025 FWRJ Florida Water Industry Survey Results
If you read The State of the Florida Water Industry Survey: Results Are In! (June 27, 2025), then you already know some of the data revealed by polling members of the Florida water and wastewater industry. If you haven’t already read the post, you’ll want to review it in conjunction with this update.
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For perspective, Hill Research, an independent, third-party research firm, conducted the survey*. Participants in the Florida Water Industry Survey submitted their survey responses through the Florida Water Resource Journal, the Wastewater Visibility News blog, direct email, or social media. Other respondents took the survey in person while in attendance at the Florida Water Resources Conference, held this year in West Palm Beach.
In our previous post, you’ll find a profile of the Florida Water Industry Survey participants and a summary of five (5) key findings identified by the survey. In this blog post, we’ll look at many of the issues and concerns topmost on the minds of water and wastewater professionals.
Florida Water Industry Survey Results: What Matters Most for Water and Wastewater Utilities
Of the issues presented to the survey respondents, unsurprisingly, the topic of aging infrastructure ranked as the issue of greatest urgency, followed by the logical tie-in of capital financing.
Urgency of Various Points of Industry Concern
Forty percent (40%) of water industry professionals participating in the survey felt utilities were only moderately prepared to meet long-term water needs.
Readiness to Meet Long-Term Water Needs
Water and Wastewater Now …and Five Years from Now
While the Florida Water Industry Survey did not reveal optimism for the industry’s health over the next five years, it also didn’t reflect a significant decline in the opinion of most water industry professionals or former professionals completing the survey. With scale scores ranging from 1 through 7, survey participants ranked the water industry’s health at 4.2 in 2025, projecting its health will decline to 4.0 by 2030.
Similarly, they ranked the health of the wastewater sector at 3.9 in 2025, projecting a decline to 3.8 by 2030.
When assessing programs currently underway in the water industry, survey respondents identified that efforts to resolve challenges have been implemented. However, the less-than-enthusiastic numbers for the future of the industry’s health in five years suggest that members of the water industry do not view current plans and programs as sufficient.
Most Implemented Plans and Programs
| Plan or program | Percent implemented |
| Capital improvement plan | 79% |
| Asset management program | 69% |
| Customer communication plan | 56% |
| Water conservation plan | 53% |
| Water loss control plan | 51% |
| Source water protection program | 49% |
| Groundwater protection program | 49% |
| Lead service line replacement program | 47% |
| Business continuity plan | 47% |
| Integrated water plan | 44% |
Least Implemented Plans and Programs
| Plan or program | Percent implemented |
| Climate action plan | 18% |
| Digital water strategy | 29% |
| Drought/water shortage plan | 36% |
| Energy program, | 39% |
Interested in learning more about the findings of the 2025 Florida Water Industry Survey? We have more to share!
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* The resulting data collected is a non-probability sample and no representations are made regarding the projection of the results herein to the entire Florida water industry sector.
About the Florida Water Resources Journal
The Florida Water Resources Journal is owned by and is the official publication of three Florida associations:
- Florida Section/American Water Works Association
- Florida Water Environment Association
- Florida Water & Pollution Control Operators Association
The Florida Water Resources Journal contains information and topics concerning Florida’s more than 3,000 domestic and 1,500 industrial wastewater facilities, its 7,000 drinking water systems, and a myriad of wetlands and other surface water agencies. The fourth largest population in the U.S. with over 16 million people, Florida is the third fastest growing state and is continually adding, repairing and improving water and wastewater services. It is mailed on the first day of the month to all members of the sponsoring organizations, as well as to direct subscribers.
Published monthly, the Florida Water Resources Journal is a technical publication oriented toward water treatment and distribution, wastewater collection and treatment, and stormwater control.
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