For Greenville Water in South Carolina, effective water management includes applying protective controls to its watersheds, resulting in high-quality source and finished water, plus energy and cost savings.In 1889, what was then the town of Greenville installed a pipeline to provide its 9,000 residents with clean drinking water. In the 1920s, city commissioners had the foresight to purchase a pristine watershed at the headwaters of the South Saluda River and Flat Rock Creek, which flow into what is now the Table Rock Reservoir.The reservoir, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, remains one of the few watersheds completely owned































