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Monday, March 12, 2018, 6:00am

A handful of water utilities around the Great Lakes have been competing over the last year to reduce pollution by controlling electricity they consume from the power grid. One northern Wisconsin community has been able to cut down mercury emissions as much as 25 percent by pumping water at certain times during the day.

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