OREM, Utah — Thanks to the Don A. Christiansen Regional Water Plant in Orem, Utah and Salt Lake County residents get clean drinking water out of their taps.

"We deliver water to about 2 million people from this plant,” said Gene Shawcroft, the general manager of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District.

On Friday, Shawcroft helped lead a tour of the treatment plant for a number of state and federal officials, including Congressman Mike Kennedy. He and the others learned how gravity takes water from the Wasatch Mountains to the Provo River, right to this plant.

“It’s pretty complicated, takes a great deal of engineering,” said Congressman Kennedy. “We’re here at the mouth of Provo Canyon, and it's seven acres that allows purification of water for more than a million people. That's a r

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