Regional water authorities are expected today to extend once-a-week watering restrictions through February. ...more

September 30, 2008

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 Southwest Florida Water Management District has released its 10-year management plan for Chito Branch Reserve, the 5,515-acre tract in southeast Hillsborough County that holds Tampa Bay Water's regional reservoir. ...more

July 2, 2008

Shortages of food for the poor and hungry is becoming so severe a local food bank has contemplated raising its own crops. The Volunteer Way, on Congress Street in New Port Richey, is scheduled to meet Monday night with officials of a church in the area which has several acres of land, Lester Cypher, CEO of the Volunteer Way, said today. ...more

February 11, 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

For the third consecutive month, the Southwest Florida Water Management District has authorized regional supplier Tampa Bay Water to continue skimming nearly twice the percentage of Alafia River flow allowed by permit. ...more

October 8, 2007