Tampa Bay Water (TBW) is a regional wholesale drinking

water utility The water industry provides drinking water and wastewater services (including sewage treatment) to residential, commercial, and industrial sectors of the economy. Typically public utilities operate water supply networks. The water industry does ...

that serves customers in the Tampa Bay, Florida region. The agency is a special district of the state created by inter-local agreement among six member governments. A nine-member board of directors composed of two elected commissioners from each member county and one elected representative from each member city oversees the policy decisions of the agency. The member governments that make up the board of directors are: The cities of

New Port Richey New Port Richey is a city in Pasco County, Florida, United States. It is a suburban city included in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was counted at 16,728 in the 2020 census. History B ...

St. Petersburg, Florida St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 258,308, making it the fifth-most populous city in Florida and the second-largest city in the Tampa Bay Area, after Tampa. It is the ...

, and Tampa, and Hillsborough County, Pasco County, and

Pinellas County Pinellas County (, ) is a county located on the west central coast of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 959,107. The county is part of the Tampa–St. Petersburg– Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical ...

. These member governments provide water to over 2.5 million citizens. Tampa Bay Water, formerly the West Coast Regional Water Supply Authority, was created in 1998 to deliver drinking water in an environmentally sound, cost-effective and reliable manner. To achieve these goals, the Agency created a diversified water supply system to reduce dependence on a sole source—groundwater. The regional utility built the C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir of , a seawater desalination plant with a maximum output of per day, a surface water treatment plant with a maximum output of per day, and interconnected more than of large-diameter pipeline. The system spans over to deliver drinking water at an average rate of per day. The region's water sources are: * Surface water from the

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, Hillsborough River and

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* Reverse osmosis desalinated seawater from Tampa Bay * Groundwater from regional well fields

Board of directors

* Chairman: Sandra Murman, Hillsborough County Commissioner * Vice Chairman: Dave Eggers, Pinellas County Commissioner * Pat Gerard, Pinellas County Commissioner * Pat Kemp, Hillsborough County Commissioner * Rob Marlowe, Mayor, New Port Richey * Charlie Miranda, Tampa Councilman * Ron Oakley, Pasco County Commissioner * Darden Rice, St. Petersburg Councilwoman * Kathryn Starkey, Pasco County Commissioner

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.tampabaywater.org/ Government agencies established in 1998 1988 establishments in Florida Special districts of Florida Water companies of the United States Tampa Bay area