The board shall have the power to construct, reconstruct, enlarge, extend or otherwise provide for one or more systems of water production and distribution facilities, or any part thereof, and to build, operate and maintain such facilities in providing means to handle the production of water and the distribution thereof as the board may designate. The cost and expense of building the same shall be borne by the various districts then or thereafter using the same.
K.S.A. 19-3544