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Article: The Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination Plant To Start Providing Drinking Water; Plant to Provide Safe, Sustainable, Environmentally Friendly And Drought-Proof Water Source.
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- March 17, 2003
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TAMPA BAY, Fla. -- TAMPA BAY, Fla., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination plant uses seawater from Tampa Bay to provide an environmentally friendly, drought-proof, sustainable supply of drinking water. Although it will initially produce water at a rate of 4.2 million gallons a day (mgd), its output will be 25 mgd when at full capacity, making it the largest RO seawater desalination facility in North America.
The Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination plant will provide the Tampa Bay region with 10 percent of its drinking water.
Numerous independent environmental studies predict the facility will not increase Tampa Bay's salinity beyond ...