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Source to Tap to Treatment: Rural Utilities in the 21st Century
JCShepard.com | June 14, 2026 | Category: Policy, Economy Last week, we looked at the systems that rural communities use for communications. This week, we look at something even more fundamental: the systems that keep the water clean, take it away again when it’s been used, and manage what’s left over. Drinking water, wastewater, and…
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Signal and Story: Communications Infrastructure in Rural America
Somewhere between the power plant and the water tower, most communities hide a third piece of critical infrastructure: the signal that carries their stories. It’s easy to spot the pipes and the poles—harder to see the newspaper office on Main Street, the AM tower out by the highway, or the fiber buried under the county…
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