Ramirez for this honor. Mr. Ramirez is a former migrant farmworker who catalyzed community support to form a nonprofit water supply corporation which today serves thousands of people in the colonias of the lower Rio Grande Valley. mainly migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families. Although Military Highway Water Supply Corp. brought safe drinking water to the homes of many of the needy. there are still many areas of south Texas today without drinking water. and many other water supply corporations have come to me for help in securing water for a thirsty valley. But the story of Military Highway Water Supply Corp.. is a story about a group of people with a very big dream and very little money who overcame enormous obstacles to achieve that dream.