"Dry Prairie Rural Water is committed to delivering clean, affordable and dependable drinking water that will improve the quality of life and create economic opportunities throughout northeast Montana."

Dry Prairie Rural Water Authority (DPRWA) is a municipal, industrial, and rural water system for Valley, Daniels, Sheridan and Roosevelt counties outside the boundaries of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

DPRWA is owned and operated by the off-reservation users. The Assiniboine and Sioux Rural Water System is the on-reservation rural water system. Together these two systems comprise one regional project called the Fort Peck Reservation Rural Water System.

The project is bringing high quality Missouri River water, treated to meet safe drinking water standards, to existing municipal water systems, rural households, and livestock pasture taps in NE Montana. The two systems will share common facilities, including the intake facility and the water treatment plant. The Tribal system is operated by the Fort Peck Tribes and held in trust by the Department of Interior for the Tribes. 
    The major components of the project are an intake facility on the Missouri River, Southeast of Wolf Point, Montana, and a 13 million gallon per day treatment facility. Once treated, the water will be pumped through 3,200 miles of pipeline by 20  mainline pump stations, and will be delivered to a design population of 31,000 persons for municipal, rural, industrial, and livestock purposes in a 7,800 square mile area of Northeast Montana. The project will be constructed with annual appropriations from Congress.

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