TVA’s connection to a more complex water movement
MLGW president and CEO J.T. Young (in a file photo) delivers the “State of MLGW” address by at the utility's Downtown Memphis headquarters Feb., 19, 2020. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
The Tennessee Valley Authority supplies electric power to Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division. But the possibility of MLGW leaving TVA is also a part of the issue with the city’s water supply and its safety.
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