LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — The City of Lincoln announced Thursday that it has started construction on a “major component” of Lincoln’s Water 2.0 Project.

Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird and Lincoln Transportation and Utilities Director Liz Elliott hosted a press conference detailing the project.

A new water transmission main along 98th Street will be a link between the city’s current water source at the Platte River and its future second source from a wellfield and treatment plant at the Missouri River.

“This milestone in our Water 2.0 project also represents a connection between current and future generations of Lincolnites,” Gaylor Baird said in a press release. “I’m excited to think that, years from now, when our children and grandchildren turn on their taps and pour a glass of water, they ca

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