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
 

Montana Rural Water Association Receives Excellence in Member Services Award

Officials at the National Rural Water Association are pleased to announce that Montana Rural Water Association received the Excellence in Member Services Award that was presented at the NRWA Annual Leadership and Technology Exhibit Center Forum held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 19-22.

Member Services are comprised of all the tangible and intangible services that associations provide their members. This award is presented to the State Association that excelled in supporting its members with the tools needed to be better water utility systems for their customers.

Montana Rural Water Association was selected as this year’s winner from 48 other state associations because it excels in meeting the needs of membership, provides innovative programs and services, and provides the leadership to establish the association as the premier water and wastewater utility membership organization in their state.

As a non-profit association of water and wastewater systems, MRWA works with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, local Health Districts, USDA/Rural Development, EPA and any other agency to assure that effective and efficient help is provided to its small member systems.

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.

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Front Row, Left to Right:  Craig Pagel, Andy Petersen, Donna Wadsworth, Bill O’Connell.  Back Row, Left to Right:  Harry Whalen, Dave Jones, Dan Keil, George Dengel