{"id":125806,"date":"2026-05-21T05:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/05\/21\/bill-would-provide-clean-water-to-eastern-montana\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:56:59","modified_gmt":"2028-11-06T07:56:59","slug":"bill-would-provide-clean-water-to-eastern-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/05\/21\/bill-would-provide-clean-water-to-eastern-montana\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Bill Would Provide Clean Water To Eastern Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sens. Steve Daines and Tim Sheehy have introduced a bill to authorize construction  of the Dry-Redwater rural  water system, which will help provide clean and reliable  water to eastern Montana.  Rep. Troy Downing introduced  the companion bill in the U.S. House of Representatives.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cMontanans shouldn\u2019t have to use dirty water for drinking, eating, cleaning, or other basic necessities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126211,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125806\/revisions\/126211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125806"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=125806"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=125806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}