WATER CONSERV II is the largest water reuse project of its kind in the world. It is also the first reuse project in Florida permitted by the Florida DEP to irrigate crops produced for human consumption with reclaimed water. Jointly owned by the City of Orlando and Orange County, it has taken a liability (effluent previously discharged to surface water bodies) and turned it into an asset (reclaimed water) that benefits the City, the County, and the agricultural community.

The system encompasses two water reclamation facilities connected by 21 miles of transmission pipeline to a distribution center. From the distribution center, a 70-mile pipeline network distributes reclaimed water to 59 agricultural commercial and residential customers. The reclaimed water that is not used for irrigation is distributed to Rapid Infiltration Basins (RIBs). The RIB network contains eight sites with 71 RIBs over a total of 3,725 acres. Each RIB has one to five cells for a total of 150. They have the capacity to handle 29.20 mg daily.

Both the distribution network and RIB site network are monitored and controlled from a central computerized control system. In the case of the RIB network, system operations take place through a computerized management system. Known as the Groundwater Operational Control System (GOCS), it allows operations personnel to forecast impacts on the groundwater system of loading individual or groups of RIBs.