Press Release

 10/15/02

Florida Rural Water Association Receives State Association of the Year

Officials at the National Rural Water Association are pleased to announce that Florida Rural Water Association received the State Association of the Year Award at the NRWA’s Annual Leadership Conference held in Spokane, Washington October 6-9.

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.

Florida 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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