Tropical Storm Fay should be filling up Tampa Bay Water's 15-billion gallon reservoir and drowning any chance of a regional water shortage next year. But the region won't get that one benefit from the storm's path because of another troubling miscue at Tampa Bay Water, the regional water supplier. ...more

August 19, 2008

The recent revelations about Tampa Bay Water's Bill Young Reservoir confirm what many have known all along: Tampa Bay Water cannot be trusted. They have misused the authority given to them by the partnership agreement. They have been fiscally irresponsible with our tax dollars and lied to us about it time and time again! ...more

August 18, 2008

We criticize Tampa Bay Water, the Clearwater-based regional drinking water utility to which Pasco County and New Port Richey belong, when it has problems. So we thought we'd point out an area in which it is headed in the right direction. ...more

July 30, 2008

Tampa Bay Water is poised to provide for future needs as more people move to the area and demands continue to grow, the regional authority's general manager told Pasco County officials. ...more

July 25, 2008

Tampa Bay Water is poised to provide for future needs as more people move to the area and demands continue to grow, the regional authority's general manager told Pasco County officials. Gerald Seeber, who addressed the board at a meeting this week in New Port Richey, said Tampa Bay Water has reduced groundwater pumping significantly since 2002, in part because of increased collections of surface water from rivers and better production at a desalination plant in Apollo Beach. ...more

July 24, 2008

Admitting they underestimated what it would take to transform millions of gallons of estuary water into something people can drink, Tampa Bay Water officials last week cut the ribbon for a second time on North America's largest desalination plant. ...more

January 31, 2008

Have you noticed you don't have to watch the local news to find out what's going on around here any more? ...more

January 13, 2008

Tampa Bay Water's desalination plant is finally up and running, four years late. ...more

December 22, 2007

The nation's largest desalination plant has passed a final round of testing and is now officially part of Tampa Bay Water's regional water supply system. ...more

December 17, 2007

It took 21 months of repairs, but Tampa Bay Water's desalination plant is now producing 25 million gallons of fresh water a day. A key breakthrough occurred weeks ago when engineers tweaked a filtering system that had been shutting down every 12 hours. Now the filters can run 24 hours or more. The plant must undergo more tests before becoming operational early next year. The facility will supply nearly 10 percent of Tampa Bay Water's average daily demand. ...more

October 29, 2007