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Water department getting much-needed new facility
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Bill Zechman photo Ricky Morton, director of McMinnville's Water and Wastewater Department, spoke to The Rotary Club of McMinnville about the new facility his department will be getting in 2026.
We can’t live without it, but we don’t think much about it. Until it fails. One of the resources essential to all life, from the simplest microscopic organisms to complex beings like us humans, is water. Add hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and a few other basic elements and we have the ingredients of all biology.