What are the specific types of facilities that may be included in a rural water project?
A rural water supply project can include new rural water supply infrastructure and facilities; the improvement or upgrade of existing rural water supply infrastructure and facilities; and the extension of existing rural water supply infrastructure and facilities currently serving individual communities dispersed homesites, rural areas or tribes. More specifically, infrastructure or facilities may include, but is not limited to: Pumps, pipes, wells, surface water intakes and other diversion, transmission, or distribution systems, storage tanks and small impoundments, water treatment facilities for potable water supplies, including desalination facilities, buildings necessary to house equipment and serve as a center for operations, power transmission and related facilities required for the rural water supply project, equipment and management tools for water conservation, groundwater recovery, and water reuse and recycling, associated features to mitigate adverse environmental consequence
