Press Release

 10/15/02

Maine Rural Water Association Receives Quality On Tap Leadership in Public Relations Award

Officials at the National Rural Water Association are pleased to announce that Maine Rural Water Association received the Quality On Tap Leadership in Public Relations Award at the NRWA’s Annual Leadership Conference held in Spokane, Washington October 6-9.

The Quality on Tap! Public Relations Program is designed to assist small utilities in telling their story about the clean, safe, dependable quality water they produce.  This award is presented to the State Association that is the leader in providing their membership with necessary QOT tools and sets the example for good public relations.

Maine Rural Water Association was selected as this year’s winner from 47 other 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 55,000 water and wastewater system personnel a year for two decades and provided over 60,000 on-site technical assistance visits a year. Over 7,000 ground water protection plans have been adopted by local communities.

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Steve Levy