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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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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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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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Worst winter ever? Lessons learned from the "polar vortex" winter of 2013-14
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Category: Our People
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Imagine a day without water
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Madison uses 27 million gallons of water a day. Can you imagine one day without it? (Related story: More than a dozen area agencies, municipalities and non-profits are asking people to imagine a day without water.)Category: Our People
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MWU releases Annual Water Quality Report
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Madison's drinking water once again met or exceeded all federal and state standards for health, quality and safety. Click here to access the detailed Annual Water Quality Report. ---Category: Our People
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EPA seeks details of Madison’s Lead Service Replacement Program
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Madison's once-controversial program may now become a model for other cities --- “Those books are the lead service contracts,” says Madison Water Utility operations clerk Amy Jones, gesturing over her shoulder to three massive binders stacked neatly on top ofCategory: History, Our People
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Madison women make history -- with a little help from their friends
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MWU creates first women's "tapping team" in WisconsinCategory: Our People
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Sometimes, it's what you don't see
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The stories keep coming in – the landlord who found a broken showerhead spewing water in an unoccupied apartment; the man with a silently running toilet; the couple unaware that a burst hose was gushing in their yard. "They normally say, 'It's impossible. There's no way for that muchCategory: Our People
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MWU honored for winning Best-Tasting Water in the state!
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Darn tasty water It's not every day that MWU employees stand before the Madison Common Council surrounded by cheers and applause. But it's also not every day that the city is honored by the Wisconsin Water Association (WWA) for having the best-tasting waterCategory: Our People