SHELTON, Wash. – The National Rural Water Association has selected Washington Congressman Norm Dicks as the 2008 recipient of a Rural Water Appreciation Award.
                Dicks’s efforts have increased funding for drinking water and sewer improvements to over $1.6 billion, provided funds for over 600 communities to protect their environment and water supplies, and provided $11.5 million to assist communities in compliance and improved treatment processes. Dicks is chairman of the House of Representatives subcommittee that funds the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.
                “Thanks to Congressman Dicks’s effort, over $1 billion of federal water development assistance was targeted to rural and small community water and sewer needs,” said Rob Johnson, CEO of the NRWA, the nation’s leading provider of training and technical assistance to small water utilities.
                “Over 40,000 rural communities received on-site technical assistance to improve their drinking water, wastewater and regulation compliance,” Johnson added. “We acknowledge Congressman Dicks’s leadership in improving drinking water and the quality of water in our rivers and lakes.”
                More accomplishments for the water and environmental initiatives Dicks supported are detailed in the NRWA 2008 report to congress, available at www.ruralwater.org/report.
                 The Rural Water Appreciation Award is presented to national leaders who have been essential in protecting and improving the environment, public health and drinking water quality.

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