Tampa Convention Center at night

Tampa's Water Production Plant - 1926

City of Tampa extends one-day-per-week watering restrictions year-round. You can find your designated watering day and additional water use restrictions at tampa.gov/WaterRestrictions.

After Tampa's early privately-owned water company experienced difficulties in providing a growing city with a reliable supply of drinking water, city leaders built a municipal water treatment plant on the banks of the Hillsborough River in an area that, at the time, was remote. The site has been expanded and modernized but many of the initial structures remain to form the core of today's plant.