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LINCOLN, Neb. -- The 55 communities involved in a program
called
Groundwater Guardian come from widely diverse locations in 28 states
and one Canadian
province, but they have one thing in common: every community is
dependent on
groundwater for its drinking water supply. The national program,
sponsored by
the Groundwater Foundation at Lincoln, recognizes and connects
communities
that are taking extraordinary care of groundwater supplies.
The Groundwater Guardian program, currently in its second year,
involves
support, assistance, and linkages to both local and national experts.
The
program is patterned after the popular "Tree City U.S.A."
program.
Populations of the 1995 Groundwater Guardian participants range from
under
400 in Keysville, Ga., to nearly a million in Hamilton County,
Ohio.
Geographic size ranges from villages less than a square mile to a
local
government entity as large as two to three counties drawing from the
same
aquifer.
The diversity of the communities also is evident through "the
result-oriented
activities they choose to implement," said Susan Seacrest, president
of the
Groundwater Foundation. "A community may choose to begin the
protection
process by building community awareness or to implement a completed
wellhead
protection plan," added Seacrest.
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