Tampa City Council Reclaimed Water Workshop

Tampa City Hall

Thursday, May 28, 2009 @ 9:30 a.m.

(The public is welcome to participate)

Tampa's water issues have been in the news a lot lately and many of you have expressed your passionate feelings on the subject. We're in the middle of a water crisis. We have the tightest restrictions in Florida meanwhile we are discharging 50 million gallons (mgd) of water into the Bay daily!

Confused yet? It's understandable.

How did we get here? While it's easy to point fingers, that won't help us solve our problems. We need to learn from our mistakes as a City and move forward.

This Thursday, Council hopes to "turn the page" towards a new era of common sense water conservation by addressing the following issues:

This article appears in May 20-26, 2009.