GEORGE K. DAVIS
WATER AWARD 

The Rotary Club of Lakewood Foothills is the sponsor of the annual award for the best District 5450 project related to water.

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This information provides an overview of the 2020 George K. Davis Water Award, to encourage your Club to identify an outstanding Water Project that your Club has sponsored, and encourage you to apply for this award.

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2022 is the 21st annual award sponsored by the Lakewood Foothills Rotary Club, named for the late George K. Davis, Rotarian and Professor of Civil Engineering Technology. This award is given to the District 5450 Rotary Club that has sponsored a significant Water Project for a community which increases:

  • Potable water,

  • Sanitation,

  • Hygiene,

  • Irrigation,

  • Prevention of flooding,

  • Prevention of soil erosion,

or a combination of these criteria.

  • The deadline for the Water Project Award is May 1.

  • The Water Project Award is for a completed water project.

The following additional information is available on the District 5450 web site HERE.

  • Detailed application information on the 2020 George K. Davis Water Project Award

  • Background on George K. Davis Water Award, including a list of the past 15 annual Water Awards.

THE 2022 GEORGE K. DAVIS AWARD WAS PRESENTED TO 

The Rotary Club of Boulder for their

“Mni Wiconi Rural Water System PROJECT”

South Dakota Oglala Lakota Sioux Project to connect to Federal funded Mni Wiconi water system. Supported ~ 50 house connections.

Coordinated with: Lakota Sioux, Indian Health Service, Running Strong NGO, Johns Hopkins & Columbia Public Health and Missouri Breaks.

Drinking water quality problems on Pine Ridge Reservation, Lakota Nation are associated with abnormally high cancer rates attributed to arsenic and uranium. The project has provided access for 48 off-grid homes to the existing treated system “Mni Wiconi - Water is Life”. HEALTH ON THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATION - THE POOREST COUNTY IN THE UNITED STATES The health statistics are alarming. A Lakota man on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has a life expectancy 15 years shorter than a non-Native man living just 100 miles away in Rapid City, SD.

Using available and literature data on health improvements and cost savings, estimates of the safe drinking water benefits are made. Results indicate that the Mni Wiconi project and associated home connections are economically beneficial with a best-estimate Benefit/Cost ratio B/C of 4, meaning that for every dollar invested for safe drinking water yields returns of $4.