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$1B In Drought Aid To California?
Posted by: | CommentsApril 15, 2009
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar pledged $260 million in federal stimulus money today to help California address its water shortages and aging infrastructure.
Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accompanied the secretary on the helicopter tour today, nearly two months after he declared a California state emergency because of the drought. That order directed state agencies to provide assistance to drought-affected communities and businesses, and called for a statewide conservation campaign.
It’s great the government wants to help out; but it’s up to us individually to take action in our own homes. Sort of makes the case for rainwater harvesting or graywater recycling?
Read the entire article in the Los Angeles Time here.
Marin, North Bay get $25M in Fed Support
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April 7th, 2009
This is great news for Marin County!
Not only can residents get involved in graywater recycling and rainwater harvesting in their homes individually, the county is now receiving a $25 million federal grant to help green business landscapes, schools, parks and cemeteries without dipping into reservoirs. The North Bay Water Reuse Authority - which includes agencies in San Rafael and Novato - received the money as part of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act signed into law by President Barack Obama last week.
Above, Sandeep Karkal, deputy manager-engineer for the Novato Sanitary District, uses a touch- pad screen to monitor the district’s water recycling plant along Highway 37 in Novato on Tuesday. Local agencies in Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties were approved to receive $25 million in federal money to help fund recycled water projects as part of the North Bay Water Recycling Program. (IJ photo/Robert Tong). Read the entire article online in the Marin IJ here.
