of small communities to provide their citizens with the best possible water is strong and undiminished undiminishedings that are in my testimony. i just want to make a few points that have been touched on but maybe i could amplify a little bit. one is the access to capital. there's a real issue in accessing the resources they need to extend lines to new customers. i believe mr. gomez talked about access to the municipal bond market. for small communities thns an option at all. 53,000-some community water systems in this country. perhaps 4% of them have the ability to access the municipal bond market. so what they are left with is the two primary federal financing programs being the drinking water srf and usda rural developments. rural and environmental programs. it's really critical that those programs continue to be supported in a robust manner. we work a lot with rural development and their water environments program. they are the primary lender in rural communities. they have some 18,000-plus loans out with small water systems. and as you probably know there's virtually no default on these loans