Efforts to encourage Pompano Beach residents to connect to the city’s reuse water irrigation system reached a new high in 2014 when the winner of a promotional contest suggested the name of Squirt as a sprinkler head mascot.Since then, Squirt has taken on a personality, growing arms and legs, wearing sunglasses and showing up all over town promoting reuse water’s benefits, says utilities director Randy Brown. The mascot and other promotions have helped this city on Florida’s Atlantic Coast increase reclaimed water use significantly.Contest kick-startThe city’s reuse facility went online in 1989 as a 2.5 mgd filtration and disinfection system
