8 | The City of Dayton comprehensive, multi-jurisdictional Source Water Protection Program complemented by land use and controlled zoning requirements, monitoring of business operations as well as groundwater conditions, chemical inventory reporting, time-critical investigations and ongoing studies which have frequently prompted updates to the program. The program encompasses more than 6,000 acres which spreads even into neighboring communities, fostering focused collaboration in ensuring the integrity of the regional water supply. That program has been in place since 1988. More recent sustainability initiatives were prompted, in part, by the city’s pledge of support toU.S. Conference ofMayors Climate Protection Agreement, an ideal forged in 2005 by mayors throughout the United States dismayed by the fact the United States refused to participate in international efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions by signing the Kyoto Protocol. In response, some 141 mayors from America resolved to tackle challenges within their own respective communities and achieve what the federal government could, or would, not. At least 500 city mayors have since pledged their support
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