On Monday, Missoula Mayor John Engen was the guest of ‘Public Water Now’, an organization fighting to take control of their own municipal water system in Monterrey, California.
In Missoula District Court on Thursday, Judge Karen Townsend officially signed the order of condemnation transferring ownership of Mountain Water Company to the City of Missoula.
When three guests from Israel visited the Talk Back program on Tuesday, the subject was water, a precious resource in such an arid Middle Eastern country.
After a Missoula City Council meeting that took less than 30 minutes, two important agreements were approved that takes the city closer to the official takeover of Mountain Water Company.
On Friday, the Montana Public Service Commission ruled against the Mountain Water Company and its parent company Liberty Utilities, stating the sale was not legally authorized,
Today the Montana Supreme Court announced that it will hear oral arguments in Mountain Water’s appeal of the district court’s ruling on necessity in the condemnation case.
The city of Missoula is attempting to get the Montana Public Service Commission to hold off on its oversight of Mountain Water Company’s transfer and filed papers last Thursday to get the courts to halt that process.