Representatives from the district and tampa bay water celebrate the beginning of full operations at the tampa bay water desalination plant. The tampa bay seawater desalination facility is one of the largest desalination plants in the united states, designed to convert seawater from tampa bay into 25 million gallons per day of drinking water. Tampa bay seawater desalination uses a process called reverse osmosis (ro) to produce drinking water from seawater.

The end product is high-quality drinking water that supplies up to 10 percent of the regionÒ€ℒs needs. The tampa bay seawater desalination plant has provided billions of gallons of clean, safe drinking water Ò€¦ Originally built in 2003, this facility is the second-largest seawater desalination plant in the united states, with the capacity to produce up to 25 million gallons of high-quality drinking water each day.