Eastern Montana is facing a debilitating problem. Many residents do not have clean water to drink or to use.
“Around here you don’t drink the water. You assume that the water coming out of the tap is not drinkable, and that you’re supposes to drink bottled water.”-Mandi Nay
Mandi Nay is the coordinator for the Dry Redwater Project, and an Eastern Montana resident. Her and her team at the Dry Redwater Project are working to bring clean water to eastern Montana through unique means.
“So little towns that are in our service area that currently have water systems such as the town of Circle, the water treatment plant that they have has to do such extensive cleaning and reconditioning of the water that comes out of the ground that is a very expensive process. So, in a town with a small number of people living in it the cost per user to maintain and operate that plant is very expensive per user. So, by us regionalizing the idea of clean water we can have one or two regional water treatment plants and through pipelines distribute that throughout the counties, to rural folks and to the people in these towns, and then individually bring the cost of the water down, because we can provide it on a larger scale.” -Mandi Nay
