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The National Rural Water Association was founded in 1976 in response to the Safe Drinking Water Act, passed in 1974.The SDWA authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency to set national health-based standards for drinking water to protect against both naturally occurring and man-made contaminants that may be found in drinking water.
The Vermont Council on Rural Development is a non-profit, federally supported, state rural development council that combines public and private resources to fund programs that improve the rural communities of Vermont, a largely rural American state. [1] The organization was created in 1992. [1]
The Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) is a global, multi-stakeholder network focused on achieving universal access to safe, affordable drinking water for all rural people worldwide. Established in 1992 as the Handpump Technology Network (HTN), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the organization originally concentrated on the development and maintenance of handpump ...
Help is on the way in the form of an 18-mile line from Council Bluffs capable of providing 400,000 gallons of treated water a day. The Regional Water Rural Water Association serves over 2,600 ...
The county is named after William Claiborne, the second governor of the Mississippi Territory. Claiborne County is included in the Vicksburg, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Jackson-Vicksburg-Brookhaven, MS Combined Statistical Area. It is bordered by the Mississippi River on the west and the Big Black River on the north.
Brookhaven is a city in Lincoln County, Mississippi, United States, 55 miles (89 km) south of the state capital of Jackson. The population was 11,674 people at the 2020 U.S. Census . [ 4 ] It is the county seat of Lincoln County. [ 5 ]
Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 34,907. [1] Its county seat is Brookhaven. [2] The county was created by the legislature on April 7, 1870, during the Reconstruction Era. It was formed from portions of Lawrence, Pike, Franklin, Copiah, and Amite counties.
I-55 leads north 24 miles (39 km) to Jackson, the state capital, and 29 miles (47 km) south to Brookhaven. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 5.5 square miles (14.2 km 2 ), of which 5.4 square miles (14.1 km 2 ) is land and 0.039 square miles (0.1 km 2 ), or 0.96%, is water.