The Water Well Trust, the only national nonprofit helping Americans get access to a clean, safe water supply, has completed 24 water well projects in 10 Arkansas counties funded by a grant from the USDA’s Household Water Well Systems Grant program.
In 2014, the USDA awarded a $140,000 matching grant to the Water Well Trust to increase potable water availability to rural households in five northwest Arkansas counties — Franklin, Benton, Madison, Marion, and Crawford — as well as Sequoyah County in Oklahoma. Five additional Arkansas counties — Carroll, Johnson, Logan, Searcy and Washington — were added in 2015.
A total of 24 water wells were drilled or rehabilitated, providing clean drinking water to 73 Arkansas residents, including 31 minor children and four veterans.
