The water flows

Project leaders look to future

Tim Leeds [email protected]

Water users and local, state and federal officials were looking to the future Friday during a celebration of the first hookup on a project that will eventually supply water to 30,000 Montanans in the region.

"This is the beginning of the end," Dan Keil, president of the North Central Montana Regional Water Authority, said in Havre Friday. "Hopefully, it doesn't take as long as it took to get here."

A group started the day at TownHouse Inns of Havre, celebrating the connection of the North Havre Water District in northern Hill C...