Between 1990 and 2010, the population of Cottonwood, Arizona, located in the state’s second fastest growing county, nearly doubled. This growth put significant strain on the community’s aging and disjointed water delivery systems, which served a customer base of 30,000.Residents were faced with frequent water outages that would last a day or two, as well as inconsistent pressure and continual water hammer noises in their homes.Due to the rapid growth, the city’s water supply was managed through a patchwork of four separate and privately owned water systems, each controlling individual, and sometimes overlapping, service areas. And since the systems weren’t
