Sustainability
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A funny song about a serious thing
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Lost Lou and Peter Barryman tune about conservation gets new life. --- Photo: Lou and Peter Barryman record the video for their song, "A Little Water" ---Category: Sustainability
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Water use in Madison drops to lowest level in 50 years
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Catching catastrophic plumbing problems -- through email
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----- The last thing you want to hear during a vacation is bad news from home. But that’s exactly what Carol Philipps got during a recent trip to San Francisco – and it came from Madison Water Utility. “I got an alert after a couple of days that we had used aCategory: Sustainability
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100 miles of main
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Madison Water Utility's Water Main Replacement Program reaches major milestone --- Photo: Water main is lowered into place beneath Yuma Drive. It’s no secret that Madison has water main breaks. On average, Madison Water Utility crews repair about 230Category: Sustainability
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Saving Madison from salt
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New WI Salt Wise campaign looks to educate the community about road salt as concerns grow over water contamination ---Category: Water quality, Sustainability
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You have a voice! MWU seeks public input on critical water issues
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How low can we go?
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Madison's annual water use hits a 47-year low, but utility officials push for more. (Photo: Pump test for Well 31 on Madison's southeast side. It will be the city's first new well in more than a decade.) ---Category: Sustainability
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Why all the main breaks?
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Repair crews deal with a string of main breaks across Madison It's 5:00 a.m. on an usually warm February morning, and the call comes in – a six-inch wide water main has ruptured beneath busy Regent Street just off the UW Madison campus. The break is one of 11 in Madison inCategory: Sustainability
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Madison woman gets serious about water conservation, wins an iPad
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Madison Water Utility’s first conservation contest winner can picture it now – a sunny afternoon spent lounging in her rain garden, checking her daily water usage on her new iPad.Category: Sustainability
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MWU customers catch plumbing leaks – online
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A “leak” doesn’t sound like much – a dripping faucet here, a running toilet there – but it all adds up. In the U.S., more than a trillion gallons of treated drinking water are lost every year to residential plumbing leaks, and for homeowners, catching a problem can be a real challengeCategory: Sustainability