As a community feeling the environmental effects of historical mining practices, residents of Butte-Silver Bow take pride in having pristine drinking water. The water coming to their taps now comes from the one-of-a-kind Basin Creek Water Treatment Plant, which features the industry’s most advanced treatment technology. The gravity-powered, treat-on-demand system is the first of U.S. plant of its kind to use ceramic filters—and those technologies help the plant demonstrate unprecedented water and energy efficiency.
