Sustainability
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All eyes on the aquifer: Is Madison's water supply sustainable?
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(Photo: A camera is lowered into a Madison Water Utility well bore hole, revealing an aquifer far below the city) ---Category: SustainabilityTags: aquifer, Sustainability, History, Climate Change
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Our graywater experiment: 10 years and counting
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Category: SustainabilityTags: graywater, Sustainability, Conservation
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Madison Water Utility first in state to launch "ultimate conservation tool"
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What customers have been waiting for How much water do you use watering your lawn? How about doing laundry or taking a shower? Madison Water Utility customer service representative Pam Mousley says there used to be just one way to find out.Category: Serving the Community, SustainabilityTags: Customer Care, Conservation
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When winter's over: the lasting impact of road salt
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(For more information on the impact of road salt in Wisconsin and what you can do to help, head to www.WiSaltWise.com.) "Ominous trend"Category: Sustainability
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Why all the main breaks?
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Aging infrastructure meets extreme weather It's 1:00 a.m. on a brutally cold Monday morning, and the call comes in – a six-inch wide water main has ruptured beneath East Badger Road. It's the first of 8 main break calls that will push Madison Water Utility crews to workCategory: Sustainability
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Bad Medicine
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Updated on May, 14, 2015 - 11:00am Initiative aims to keep pharmaceuticals out of our wastewater and landfills It's an alarming thought – prescription drugs like anti-depressants, hormones, painkillers, antibiotics, and steroids showing up in the waterCategory: Serving the Community, Sustainability
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Our graywater experiment: 8 years and counting
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"Toilet uses recycled water." The simple placards posted in every restroom stall at Madison Water Utility's Olin St. offices are among the few small hints you'll find of the Utility's big experiment in water conservation – the first large-scale graywater system ever installed in Madison.Category: Sustainability
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