Press Release                                        October 28, 2003

National Rural Water Association
2915 S. 13^th Street
Duncan, OK 73533
580-252-0629   FAX 580-255-4476
Contact:  Kris R. Cash, nrwakc@nrwa.org
 

Kansas Rural Water Association Receives State Association of the Year Award

Officials at the National Rural Water Association are pleased to announce that Kansas Rural Water Association received the State Association of the Year Award at the NRWA’s Annual Leadership Conference held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 19-22.

This 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.

For over 37 years, Kansas Rural Water Association has been dedicated to helping public water systems provide quality water and related services.  KRWA offers cities, rural water districts and investor-owned utilities technical and managerial assistance, up-to-date training and seminars, referrals to agencies, timely advice on public policy issues, and numerous partnerships for cutting edge service.

Since 1989 KRWA has completed over 680 water loss surveys, reducing annual water losses by 3.08 billion gallons for an annual cost savings of $5.02 million.  They have conducted 416 operations reviews for annual savings of $788,052 and also remapped all 289 rural water district boundaries.  Bottom line, KRWA provides assistance that systems need!

Kansas Rural Water Association was selected as this year’s winner from a field of 48 state associations.

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.

Historically, NRWA’s state associations have trained over 100,000 water and wastewater system personnel a year for two decades and provided over 70,000 on-site technical assistance visits a year. Local communities have adopted over 7,000 ground water protection plans. Additionally, an NRWA goal is to have all community water supplies complete vulnerability assessments and emergency response plans.                        

Photo Left to Right:  Sharon Dwyer, Pat Shaffer and Dennis Schwartz

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