The taste test is held every year on Capitol Hill, sponsored by the National Rural Water Association.
Byrd is chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, which often dispenses federal money for rural water projects.
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Every state in the nation held preliminary contests to pick the best water from a rural water system in their state.
Since joining the World Bank, in 1992, Uzbekistan had received more than five hundred million dollars in loans, mostly for rural water and health projects.
Pennsylvania is one of the only states with no standards for rural water well construction, meaning multiple other factors could be contributing to the problems.
Before the taste test, the National Rural Water Association honored Sen.
"The growth drivers are not there as much as they are for energy, " said Phil Wagner, a water treatment consultant for the Rural Water Association (RWA).
In 2007, we expanded the program significantly with a grant from the World Bank with a clean water program that helps connect poor, rural communities to safe water systems.
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One year later, Jones joined a number of state and private efforts to rebuild Liberia by setting up FACE Africa, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that's working to provide access to clean drinking water in Liberia's rural communities, where running water and sewage infrastructure is often a rare luxury.
But companies will not be able to satisfy surging urban demand unless rural supplies of water are also properly managed.
"There is no awareness about the need for filtration among most Indians, with a mere 6% of urban households and 1% of rural households using water purifiers, " said Ashvini Hiran, chief operating officer at Tata Chemicals.
The on-going loss of tropical forests, and the implications that has for climate change, biodiversity, rural livelihoods and water supplies illustrates the reason why environmental groups are still very much needed, despite the successes of the past.
Herman also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia where he helped rural communities develop clean water and hygiene education programs.
Therafter, Reddy had devoted himself to a variety of philanthropic causes, including providing drinking water to rural areas and mid-day meals to school-going children.
To counter scepticism over how the oil revenues will be managed, Chad has passed a law under which 80% of the income will be used to finance education, health, environment, water and rural development.
In Part 1 , airing on Tuesday, Howard Berkes reports on a plan developed by water officials in southern Nevada to build a 300-mile pipeline to bring water from rural Nevada to Las Vegas.
Similar scenes at 28 meetings have fired up rural Australia since the water-use plan was unveiled in early October by the authority responsible for managing the basin formed by two of Australia's longest rivers, the Murray and the Darling.
While municipal water utilities are required to provide public reports of test results, bottled-water makers are not. (On the other hand, well water, which is found in many rural areas, isn't regulated as water provided by towns and cities is.) So although you may fork over a pretty penny for bottled water, that doesn't mean it's any better than what's coming out of your faucet.
Exactly one year later, we broke ground on a water and sanitation project in a small rural community called Joezohn with no access to safe drinking water or sanitation facilities.
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The BBC reporter Laurence Herdman described "a water-laden rural landscape" around much of the county.
Where half the population of rural areas have no safe water.
South East Water has applied to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to increase the amount of water it abstracts from the River Ouse.
They've applied for the water rights in seven rural valleys where cows and horses outnumber the rural population.
The contribution of diffuse sources of pollution to bathing water failures, both rural and urban, is being investigated.
It is also focusing on infrastructure projects such as water, sewerage and rural electricity, as well as microfinance schemes.
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In many unserved rural areas, people still fetch water for drinking and mix it with infant formula to feed their babies.
It doesn't help that an estimated two-thirds of China's rural population lacks access to piped water -- a development failure that has become one of the leading causes of death among children under the age of five.
Cholera thrives in areas without clean water and proper sanitation, and the United Nations has said 6 million people in Zimbabwe -- more than half the population -- have limited or no access to safe water and sanitation in rural and urban areas.
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Be it a transboundary river basin or aquifer, or a water pump built for a rural village, examples of cooperation apparently abound.
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