Change in Culture

Mesa moves past reactive thinking and shifts focus to efficiency, infrastructure investment and a healthy future.
Change in Culture
City of Mesa Water Resources Director Dan Cleavenger (right) looks on as a crew replaces a 12-inch water valve along a residential street in Mesa. (Photography by Mark Henle)

Rapidly growing urban development. Sharp increases in the demand for freshwater. It’s a double whammy that most municipalities would just as soon avoid.

But not Mesa, Ariz. The Mesa Water Resources Department (MWRD) has not only accepted these challenges, but is succeeding — to...

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