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Environmental Report
Environmental Report
Our services and the environment
Seattle Public Utilities provides more than 1.3 million customers in King County with a reliable water supply and drainage, sewage, and solid waste services. These services include the responsibility of environmental stewardship.
Our region’s natural resources are increasingly under pressure from rapid urban growth and urbanization at the local level and climate change on a global scale.
Seattle Public Utilities has a fundamental duty to minimize the environmental impacts of everything we do and to search for more sustainable ways of managing natural resources.
Environmental report summary
In the environmental report, you will find highlights of our efforts to:
- • Meet environmental challenges and express our commitment to take on future environmental challenges and opportunities with determination and creativity;
- • Manage our water resources with an aggressive water conservation program, watershed management plans, a unique habitat conservation program and new approaches to improving water quality;
- • Lead the region with drainage and wastewater initiatives that protect our urban creeks;
- • Address our solid waste responsibilities by focusing on waste reduction, recycling, reuse and sustainable systems and practices;
- • Protect salmon and other wildlife; and
- • Incorporate our vision into our everyday business practices.
Report author
Seattle Public Utilities
Director's Office
December, 2001
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