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Press Release -
National Rural Water Association
2915 S. 13th Street
Duncan, OK 73533
580-252-0629 FAX 580-255-4476
Contact: Kris R. Cash,
nrwakc@nrwa.org
Wisconsin Rural Water
Association Wins
Rural Water State Association of the Year!
Officials of the National Rural Water
Association are pleased to announce that Wisconsin Rural Water
Association received top honors as the State Association of the Year at
NRWA’s Annual Tribute to Excellence Awards Ceremony held in Sacramento,
California on October 12.
The prestigious State Association of the
Year award is selected from a compilation of scores from other
individual and association awards presented, as well as association
growth and other efforts in assisting rural water systems. It projects
a team effort in all areas of professional association operations and
membership services.
Established in 1987, Wisconsin Rural Water
Association is a non-profit organization of rural and small water and
wastewater systems. WRWA represents over 85 percent of systems serving
populations under 10,000. The association provides training sessions to
thousands of Municipal and Non-Municipal employees each year, while
making over 250 on-site technical assistance visits to systems each
month.
Members receive assistance in many areas
including: leak detection/audits, monitoring procedures, funding
sources, regulatory compliance, wellhead protection programs, water and
wastewater training classes, plant operations, and other specialty
areas.
The NRWA Awards in Excellence program was
established to recognize the outstanding efforts of the Member State
Affiliates, their staff, and special members of the rural water
industry.
The National
Rural Water Association is a non-profit federation of State Rural Water
Associations. Its mission:
to provide state
associations with support services to meet the needs of their
membership. NRWA is America’s largest utility association with over
24,558 members.
Historically, NRWA’s state associations
have trained over 55,000 water and wastewater system personnel each year
for two decades. They also provide over 90,000 on-site technical
assistance visits a year.
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