In 2018, the District was awarded a scholarship from the Water Research Foundation, Water Environment Association and the National Association of Clean Water Agencies to visit other utilities with an innovation of interest.
District staff visited four other utilities to learn about and see their approaches to inviting the public to the wastewater treatment plant. This was the first of many steps in visioning how Shop One might look and function.
![Outside water fountain display](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://onewatermadison.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/thumb_IMG_6694_1024.jpg)
![West Boise Wastewater Treatment Facility sign.](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://onewatermadison.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/DSC_0026.jpg)
![Staff member from Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District looking at map on the Boise Watershed River Campus.](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://onewatermadison.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/DSC_0032.jpg)
![Tiling art on the ground that says "take care of the land and the land will take care of you."](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://onewatermadison.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/DSC_0044.jpg)