City of Mpls Offers Inside Look at How Water is Delivered to Our Taps
Sunday, February 6, 2022 at 11:14AMExcerpt from a recent e-newsletter from the City of Minneapolis:
Take an inside look at the City’s award-winning water treatment and delivery process by watching this new video on how the City delivers drinking water from the river to your tap.
The City pumps approximately 19 billion gallons of water from the Mississippi River each year and delivers an average of 54 million gallons of drinking water each day – enough to fill the Lake of the Isles in about four days.
In addition to Minneapolis, the water the City treats is distributed to Crystal, Golden Valley, Bloomington, New Hope, Columbia Heights, Hilltop, the Edina Morningside neighborhood, Fort Snelling, and the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport.
The City’s Water Treatment & Distribution Services Division recently earned the Directors Award in the Partnership for Safe Water’s Distribution Optimization Program - a significant achievement toward ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality water to the community. The Partnership for Safe Water is a voluntary self-assessment and optimization program for water treatment plant and distribution system operation.
