{"id":14764,"date":"2025-11-20T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tampabaywater.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=14764"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:52:23","slug":"tampa-bay-water-wise-hits-major-milestone-1-million-gallons-saved-daily","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.tampabaywater.org\/tampa-bay-water-wise-hits-major-milestone-1-million-gallons-saved-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Water Wise Hits Major Milestone: 1 Million Gallons Saved Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"newsRelease\"><span style=\"text-transform: uppercase\">News Release<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: uppercase\"><strong>For Immediate Release<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Contact: Brandon Moore<br><a href=\"mailto:bmoore@tampabaywater.org\">bmoore@tampabaywater.org<\/a><br><a href=\"tel:+17277912304\">(727) 791-2304<\/a>&nbsp;\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW173788709 BCX0\">CLEARWATER, Fla. (Nov.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW173788709 BCX0\"> 20<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW173788709 BCX0\">, 2025<\/span>)<\/strong> \u2013 Tampa Bay Water Wise has reached a big win for water conservation:\u00a01 million gallons\u00a0saved\u00a0every day\u00a0thanks to rebates offered since the program launched in 2020. The announcement came during Tampa Bay Water\u2019s recent\u00a0board\u00a0meeting, where program manager, Amelia Brown, confirmed the program surpassed its 2025 goal.<span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">And the work\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0stop\u00a0there.\u00a0The program\u2019s overall target is\u00a03.8 million gallons\u00a0per day by 2030. To help get there, Tampa Bay Water Wise is boosting rebate incentives temporarily for homeowners and businesses to replace old toilets with more water-efficient models. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis milestone proves small actions make a big impact,\u201d said Brown. \u201cWe\u2019re grateful to everyone who helped us get here\u2014and we\u2019re pushing to save even more.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The program\u2019s success comes from thousands of participants\u2014homeowners, HOAs, restaurants, hotels, and multifamily communities\u2014who\u2019ve\u00a0installed high-efficiency toilets, smart irrigation systems, and water-saving appliances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Conservation\u00a0remains\u00a0one of the most cost-effective ways to meet future water demand. At just $0.74 per thousand gallons saved,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0less expensive than building\u00a0new\u00a0water supply infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re investing in water supply infrastructure to meet future water demands, but conservation means less to build\u2014and more money in your pocket,\u201d Brown added.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW196706388 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW196706388 BCX8\">About Tampa Bay Water Wise<\/span><\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW196706388 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW196706388 BCX8\">Tampa Bay Water Wise is a partnership between Tampa Bay Water, the regional wholesale drinking water provider, and the utility\u2019s six member governments: Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas counties and the cities of New Port Richey, St. Petersburg, and Tampa. The Southwest Florida Water Management District \u2013 one of five regional water management districts in the state of Florida \u2013 co-funds the rebate program. To learn more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/tampabaywaterwise.org\/\">tampabaywaterwise.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW196706388 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Tampa Bay Water<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Water is the largest wholesale water supplier in Florida, providing high-quality drinking water to its members that, in turn, supply water to more than 2.6 million residents of the Tampa Bay area. Tampa Bay Water member governments include Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties and the cities of New Port Richey, St. Petersburg and Tampa. To learn more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabaywater.org\/Newsroom\">tampabaywater.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14764","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tampa Bay Water Wise Hits Major Milestone: 1 Million Gallons Saved Daily - Tampa Bay Water<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabaywater.org\/tampa-bay-water-wise-hits-major-milestone-1-million-gallons-saved-daily\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tampa Bay Water Wise Hits Major Milestone: 1 Million Gallons Saved Daily - Tampa Bay Water\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"News Release For Immediate Release Contact: Brandon Moorebmoore@tampabaywater.org(727) 791-2304&nbsp; CLEARWATER, Fla. 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