One Water: Comprehensive Planning for Water Resources

General Sanitary Sewer, Solid Waste, Drainage, Potable Water, and Natural Groundwater Aquifer Recharge Element per 163.3177(6)(c), F.S.

Project Overview

One Water serves to update, modernize and combine the previously separate Stormwater Management, Potable Water and Wastewater Sections of the City of Tampa Comprehensive Plan to reflect the interrelated nature of water. The update will replace these Sections in the Comprehensive Plan, incorporate water resources-related language from other Sections, and provide a framework for new City initiatives such as green infrastructure and coordinated water resources planning. Additionally, the Section update includes themes of environmental protection, equitable access and resiliency to the effects of climate change.

The language was developed via a collaborative effort with staff from various water resources disciplines across the City of Tampa. It builds on vision themes and feedback from respondents to the Live, Grow, Thrive 2045 vision engagement.

Supporting documents, presentations, and maps can be found at the bottom of this page under the Documents section.

Scope of the Initiative

Protect and preserve water resources
Incorporate equitable access, resilience and sustainability
Incorporate water conservation best practices
Infrastructure that achieves multiple benefits - environmental, social and economic
Matching the right resource to the right use
Place based and impact-based approaches
Enhancing utilization of existing infrastructure
Ensuring water is provided, collected, treated and managed in a sustainable manner for current and future residents
Provide a framework for new and innovative programming and projects
Coordinated, collaborative water resources planning across departments and disciplines
Recognize the interrelatedness and value of all water in the City's Comprehensive Plan