(1) To purchase, accept as a gift, or construct a waterworks system or betterments, improvements, and extensions to such waterworks system, either within or without the boundaries of the district if the property of the district will be benefited thereby and to operate and maintain any such waterworks system it may purchase, construct, or own;

(2) To purchase, accept as a gift, or construct, either within or without the boundaries of the district, if the property of the district will be benefited thereby, a sewage collection system or a sewage treatment plant, intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, force mains, pumping stations, ejector stations, and all other appurtenances necessary or useful and convenient for the collection or treatment, purification, and disposal of industrial or domestic sewage;

(3) To open, grade, drain, pave, curb, gutter, or otherwise improve streets, roads, highways, and every other way, including viaducts and underpasses for passage and use of vehicles, either within or without the boundaries of the district, if the property of the district will be benefited thereby. Such purpose shall include the acquisition of rights-of-way by purchase or the exercise of the power of eminent domain, and to maintain such streets, roads, highways, and every other way for passage and use by vehicles, lying within the boundaries of the district or beyond the boundaries of the district, if the property of the district will be benefited thereby;

(4) To build, purchase, or accept as a gift recreational facilities such as, but not limited to, parks, lakes, golf courses, playgrounds, clubhouses, stadiums, auditoriums, arts and crafts centers, folklore centers, interpretative centers, camping areas, green belt areas, and any other facilities to provide for the recreation and cultural needs of the owners of the lands within the district;

(5) To lay and maintain sidewalks;

(6) To lay gas pipelines connecting with gas systems in nearby or adjacent municipalities;

(7) To build telephone lines to connect with the telephone system operating in nearby or adjacent municipalities; and

(8) To establish, equip, and maintain rural fire departments including construction of fire department buildings, and purchase of fire trucks, fire boats, and other fire fighting equipment.