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<br />2. Private Nonprofit Water Systems <br />in Colorado <br /> <br />2.1 What is a Private Nonprofit Water System? <br /> <br />Private nonprofit water systems are privately owned public drinking water systems that are <br />registered as not-for-profit corporations. PNPWSs can take many forms, including homeowners <br />associations (HOAs), water user associations, nonprofit camps, nonprofit schools, water <br />companies, and water associations. It is not always easy to predict using the water company <br />name whether a private water system will be for profit or nonprofit - for instance, systems with <br />"water company" in the title can be either for profit or nonprofit. <br /> <br />2.2 How Many Private Nonprofit Water Systems Are There <br />in Colorado? <br /> <br />Using the above defmition, we searched Colorado's Safe Drinking Water Information System <br />(SDWIS) database of water systems to find the number ofPNPWSs. Water systems are marked <br />as private in the database, but no further distinction between private for profit and private <br />nonprofit is recorded. We marked water systems as PNPWSs if they were an HOA or a water <br />user association. We used an on-line database of nonprofit corporations to distinguish private <br />for-profit camps and schools from private nonprofits.1 For water companies and water <br />associations we found no reliable guide, so we phoned systems for which we were unsure of <br />their status. We were not able to reach representatives from some of the systems we called, and <br />we did not mark systems for which we were unsure of their status as PNPWSs. Therefore, our <br />method is somewhat conservative in identifying PNPWSs - the true number of PNPWS is likely <br />to be a few more than we have identified. <br /> <br />SDWIS shows 2,131 systems in Colorado as of2007. This number includes all system types: <br />community water systems, noncommunity, nontransient noncommunity, and nonpublic. It also <br />includes all types of ownership: local government, state government, federal government, <br />private, Native American, and mixed public/private. <br /> <br />1. The database we used can be found at the following website: http://www.taxexemptworld.com/ <br />(TaxExemptWorld.com,2007). <br /> <br />SCll199 <br /> <br />