Make your 2015 New Year’s resolutions about conserving and protecting water in the Tampa Bay region. To help you succeed in your water-smart resolutions, here are 40 ways to be efficient with water and protect our drinking water sources this year!

Tampa Bay Water is excited to announce that Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo and Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful have each been awarded $10,000 grants for their efforts to protect the sources of the region’s drinking water.

Supply and demand. It’s a basic economic principle that determines the price of a good or service. For Tampa Bay Water, that service is the delivery of wholesale drinking water to its member governments. The amount (supply) of that water depends on how much water (demand) each of these member governments needs.

Having a strategic plan is vital to the success of any organization, and Tampa Bay Water is no exception. Recently, the Tampa Bay Water Strategic Plan in place since 2011 was updated to better guide staff in fulfilling the agency’s mission of providing a clean, safe, reliable water supply to its six member governments and their customers. The revised plan also now aligns with the agency re-organization and includes the asset management program efforts.

The more than 2.3 million people who rely on Tampa Bay Water for clean, safe drinking water benefit from a lab staff that is invested in their work. The nature of the lab at Tampa Bay Water as an in-house operation fosters just that by turning the lab staff into stakeholders in the work that they do.