现在，荷兰几乎所有农村家庭都获得了管道和经处理的饮用水。这一壮举从20世纪20年代开始，在40年的时间里基本上实现了，通过自助、合理但负担得起的水价，以及政府的部分补贴，推动区域公用事业将供水服务扩展到偏远地区。本文描述了N.V.Waterleiding Friesland（WLF），这是一家由其服务的社区集体拥有和运营的供水公用事业公司，到1975年，该公司已向Friesland省99.9%的农场和住宅供水。WFL的规划、人员、定价和管理政策为WFL的成功做出了贡献，并被其他农村供水服务推广项目采用。弗里斯兰水务公司是荷兰地区农村供水组织的典型代表，所有这些组织都发展了规模、内部员工专业知识、财务稳定性和公共支持，以持续改善和扩大偏远农村地区的供水。 包括4个参考文献、图表。

Virtually all rural households in the Netherlands are now supplied with piped and treated drinking water. This feat was largely accomplished over a forty-year period, beginning in the 1920's, by a combination of self-help, sensible but affordable water rates, and partial government subsidies to promote extension of water services by regional utilities to remote areas. This article describes the N.V. Waterleiding Friesland (WLF), a water utility collectively owned and operated by the communities it serves, which by 1975 had delivered water to 99.9 percent of the farms and residences in the Friesland province. The planning, personnel, pricing, and management policies of the WFL contributed to the WFL's success and were adopted by other rural water service extension programs. The Friesland water company is typical of Dutch regional rural water supply organizations, all of which have developed the scale, internal staff expertise, financial stability, and public support necessary for continual improvement and extension of water supplies into isolated rural areas. Includes 4 references, figures.