Editing Saginaw, Michigan (section)

===Utilities===
[[File:Saginaw Water Treatment.png|thumb|The Saginaw water treatment facility, pictured here in June 2006, was constructed in 1929.]]
The City of Saginaw gets its electricity and natural gas from [[Consumers Energy]].

In 1929, the city opened its consolidated water works plant which replaced two separate plants that were on each side of the Saginaw river. This plant treated water brought in from the Saginaw river and piped it out to the residents as well as corner pumps for people that did not have direct connections to the system.<ref name="saginaw-water2001">{{cite web |url=http://www.saginaw-mi.com/Government/Departments/PublicServices/waterReport2001.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051224000550/http://www.saginaw-mi.com/Government/Departments/PublicServices/waterReport2001.pdf |archive-date=December 24, 2005 |url-status=live |title=Saginaw 2001 Water Report |access-date=November 27, 2007}}</ref> Currently, the City of Saginaw jointly owns with the City of Midland the Saginaw-Midland Municipal Water Supply Corporation. Incorporated in 1946, this [[water treatment]] system has supplied drinking and industrial water to both cities and many surrounding areas within the county.<ref name="midland-muga">{{cite web |url=http://www.midland-mi.org/government/departments/planning/Planning/muga.htm |title=Planning & Community Development |access-date=November 27, 2007}}</ref> Due to brackish water in the aquifers below both cities, a {{convert|65|mi|km|0|adj=mid|-long}} pipeline was constructed in 1948 to supply water from [[Lake Huron]] at White Stone Point, north of [[Au Gres, Michigan|Au Gres]] to water treatment plants in Saginaw and Midland<ref name="saginaw-water2001" /> with a second pipe added by 1996. This system has played a role in the decline of the city. The City of Saginaw, in order to obtain new sources of revenue, sold water to areas outside of the city (especially to the [[Saginaw Charter Township]]). This caused numerous businesses inside the city to leave for the surrounding areas and development in the city to stagnate.{{citation needed|date=June 2012}} The City of Midland, however, adopted a policy of "No Annexation, No Water" which has led to the growth of the city as well as the surrounding areas.<ref name="midland-muga" />