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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.
Jul. 16—Priority on well owners with financial hardship, pregnant, under age 1 Private well owners in southeastern Minnesota now can receive free water-testing kits and analysis. They also have ...
Approximately 7,200 rural communities are served through financial assistance received from water and waste loans and grants. [ 3 ] In 2023, RUS was in charge of the ReConnect Program; this Biden administration program is overseen by the Agriculture Department [ 4 ] to expand broadband Internet access to rural parts of America, including the ...
22 Minnesota. 23 Mississippi. 24 Missouri. ... Rural Water Authority of Douglas County; ... New Creek Water Association [1] Keyser Water Department [2] Wisconsin
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 first agency created to protect the state's resources was founded in 1931 by the Minnesota Legislature as the Minnesota Department of Conservation. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] When the Department of Conservation was created, it brought together four separate state entities: forestry, game and fish, drainage and waters, and lands and timber, while adding a ...
In response to this, the state legislature created an act for the development of regional development commissions in areas where existing planning organizations did not exist. [3] [4] Each area of the state was given time to offer their local support to be included in one or more regions. Each local government had to petition for the creation ...
Watershed districts are special government entities in the U.S. state of Minnesota that monitor and regulate the use of water in watersheds surrounding various lakes and rivers in the state. The districts cover the natural regions of the watersheds, rather than politically defined regions and thus may have boundaries that cross jurisdictions.