Serving the Community
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“Got Water?” project announces 2020 hydration station schools!
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This year, the initiative will reach more than 14,000 students and staff in 30 schools.Category: Serving the Community
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Final segment of decade-long water main project underway
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The "Cannonball Pipeline" enters its final construction phase. ---Category: Serving the Community, Sustainability
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Toilet Rebate Program hits 1 billion gallons of water saved!
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A cornerstone of Madison’s water conservation initiative reaches a major milestone – one flush at a time --- There’s nothing all that exciting about a toilet. But 17,126 toilets? That’s another story.Category: Serving the Community, Sustainability
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Worst-case: What happens when a water main breaks under an airport taxiway?
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--- On a cold December day in 2017, Madison Water Utility got a call. “It was the airport saying, “There’s water bubbling up next to the taxiway,’” recalls Madison Water Utility field supervisor Don Russell. “We sent a crew out there immediately and determined –Category: Our People, Serving the Community
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Wild February weather takes toll on water mains
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There have been 69 main breaks and counting in the first two months of 2019. --- (Photo: MWU crews respond to a water main break as temps plunge to -20) ---Category: Serving the Community, Sustainability
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“Got Water?” initiative reaches more than 11,000 students
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--- Six more Madison schools to receive hydration stations in 2019 --- Just about every day after recess, Muir Elementary 4th grader Aaron Beard stops for a drink at his school’s water bottle refilling station.Category: Serving the Community
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Imagine a Day Without Water
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Madison uses 26 million gallons of water a day. Can you imagine one day without it?Category: Our People, Serving the Community, Water quality
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Madison Water Utility adds first new well in more than a decade
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Inside Madison's newest municipal well on Tradewinds Parkway --- Madison’s water system was supposed to look a lot different by now. According to Madison Water Utility’s 2006 Master Plan, the utility would add as many as seven new municipal water wellsCategory: Serving the Community, Sustainability
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High school students get hands-on training at MWU
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Most 17 year-olds probably don’t think much about water meters. “Honestly, I’d never seen a water meter before,” admits 17 year-old Erika Hosokawa. Or about hose bib vacuum breakers. “I didn’t think of them at all,” laughs Raymond Weinert. “This was notCategory: Our People, Serving the Community
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Two Madison Water Utility projects getting national attention
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Category: Serving the Community