Speeding up the mouse wheel in Ubuntu 18.04

I find I have to scroll a lot to move the text of my page compared to Windows where I can choose the speed of the mouse wheel.

Does Ubuntu have a similar utility and if so how can I access it?

This solution worked for me with Ubuntu 18.04:

http://www.webupd8.org/2015/12/how-to-change-mouse-scroll-wheel-speed.html

sudo apt-get install imwheel   
cat > ~/.imwheelrc
".*"
None,      Up,   Button4, 8
None,      Down, Button5, 8
Control_L, Up,   Control_L|Button4
Control_L, Down, Control_L|Button5
Shift_L,   Up,   Shift_L|Button4
Shift_L,   Down, Shift_L|Button5

(the 8 at the end of the second and third line are the acceleration numbers, 3 is default)

Then add imwheel --kill --buttons "4 5" as a startup application:

May seem obvious but there is also the possibility of increasing scroll on a per-application basis, which may be all you need.

Cannot comment (only 31 of 50 needed reputation), so I have to write this as an answer:

imwheel works for Ubuntu 16.04, but the above answers destroys the Ctrl+Mousewheel from zooming text, which for some of us is commonly used.

The solution is to provide it for both Ctrl keys:

".+"
    @Exclude

".*chrome.*"
    @Priority=100
    None,      Up,   Button4, 3
    None,      Down, Button5, 3
    Shift_L,   Up,   Shift_L|Button4
    Shift_L,   Down, Shift_L|Button5
    Shift_R,   Up,   Shift_R|Button4
    Shift_R,   Down, Shift_r|Button5
    Control_L, Up,   Control_L|Button4
    Control_L, Down, Control_L|Button5
    Control_R, Up,   Control_R|Button4
    Control_R, Down, Control_R|Button5

The Exclude section is required so that it does NOT affect other apps (no idea why it would, but it does).