Press Release

 10/15/02

West Virginia Rural Water Association Receives Excellence in State Legislation Award

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

This award is presented to the State Association that has excelled in representing their membership, educating state legislators and their membership on state legislative issues.

West Virginia 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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Mike McNulty & Fred Stottlemeyer