Some water districts are blessed with an abundant supply of clean water. The Sweetwater Authority isn’t one of them.For four decades, Sweetwater Authority has been bringing a water system begun more than a century ago into modern, safe practices while upgrading its infrastructure. One of its greatest successes is drawing pure, clean drinking water from a supply that’s anything but.Sweetwater Authority did that by thinking ahead and taking a well-timed chance on technology, says Jim Smyth, general manager. The result is enabling the authority to depend less on outside purchased water than it used to, at a savings to ratepayers
