It is a question which has occurred to many people who worry about the public infrastructure of Archuleta County: Why should the water system running beneath the declining County road system be any better than those roads? There are of course solid reasons to suspect the fluid system is better. Water and wastewater are subject to a battery of federal and state standards, constantly. Standards which the district generally not only meets but exceeds. And the financial health of PAWSD, apart from a 2002-deep drought in reservoir funds, is surer than that of the County or Town today. 

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