Tampa Bay Water Wins MarCom Award for Educational Water Publication

CLEARWATER, Fla. - Tampa Bay Water was awarded the Gold MarCom Award for "Go with the Flow," an educational booklet on water supplies for middle-school students of the Tampa Bay region. The booklet was created with the St. Petersburg Times to educate local students and their families about where water supplies come from, and how those supplies can be conserved and protected.

Tampa Bay Water was selected to receive the award from over 6,000 MarCom Award entries from throughout the United States, Canada and several other countries. MarCom Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. Entries are judged by industry professionals who are looking for publications that exhibit high standards of excellence and serve as benchmarks for the industry.

The 16-page booklet was created for the Newspaper in Education initiative with the St. Petersburg Times. More than 90,000 educational inserts were provided to students of nearly 100 middle schools in Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties earlier this school year, and nearly 500,000 were inserted into the St. Petersburg Times’ Sunday edition and the TBT.

Winners were selected from over 200 categories in seven forms of media and communication efforts- marketing, publications, marketing/promotion, public service/pro bono, creativity and electronic/interactive.

Tampa Bay Water is Florida's largest wholesale water supplier, providing water to Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties and the cities of New Port Richey, St. Petersburg and Tampa. More than 2.4 million people throughout the Tampa Bay region are served through Tampa Bay Water's member governments. For more information, call our Public Affairs office at 727-796-2355 or 813.996.7009.

The mission of the MarCom Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the creativity, hard work and generosity of marketing and communication professionals. For more information, please visit www.marcomawards.com.

The St. Petersburg Times Newspaper in Education program is a cooperative effort between schools and the Times to promote the use of newspapers in print or electronic form as educational resources. Since the mid-1970s, the program has provided schools with class sets of the newspaper, plus its award-winning original curriculum, at no cost to teachers and schools. For more information visit www.tampabay.com/nie.