1.  A good many go to water stock in some out-of-the-way pasture, one too far for rural water.

2.  But THMs are a different contaminant and will soon pose a wholly different problem for rural water suppliers.

3.  Drinking water regulators in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri have now committed to sample this spring or summer for vinyl chloride in rural water districts.

4.  EPA knows of only one other rural water district that has shown high levels of vinyl chloride.

5.  In Missouri, regulators reported in September that they had found high levels of vinyl chloride in five rural water districts, but they hoped to investigate further.

6.  Rural water districts across the Midwest began this summer to test for vinyl chloride in drinking water after federal regulators suggested the testing.

7.  Some people were getting rural water.

8.  South of the rural water district office is a plaque about him.

9.  That, they warned, would cut revenues and raise costs by leaving rural water providers with only the most remote customers -- and those most expensive to serve.

10.  The rural water districts serve a few thousand rural Kansas residents.