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With just 17,000 residents, the city of Cocoa, Fla., is fairly small. But it has a huge water system: 1,325 miles of mains, 20,400 valves and 6,000 hydrants alone.
Over the last few years, the city’s utilities department has been implementing a major change in the way it...