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When customers ran out of water, Cohasset, Mass., got serious about improving its system. Today, it’s an award-winner.
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When customers began facing water shortages, Cohasset launched a 15-year, $33 million project to upgrade a water treatment and distribution system that had been allowed to deteriorate for years.

Benjamin Franklin once said, “When the well runs dry, you know the worth of water.” The residents of Cohasset, Mass., couldn’t agree more. The taps ran dry in part of this affluent South Shore Boston suburb of 7,000 people on Memorial Day weekend, 1994.

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