US: Grants for drinking water provision in rural communitiesUS Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced that loans and grants are being awarded to rural communities for improved drinking water and wastewater treatment systems.Cat Fitzpatrick
The $30 million in federal grants will be specifically used to inventory lead service lines in drinking water systems. This crucial first step will enable municipalities to identify and plan for the replacement of outdated and potentially hazardous infrastructure, ensuring safer drinking water for ...
To provide grant assistance to large (regularly serving 100,000 people or more) privately-owned community drinking water systems, for up to $115,000 to each eligible utility to develop/revise a vulnerability assessment (V/A), emergency... ...
In rural towns of less than 10,000 where there is a decline in safe drinking water, grants are available from the USDA to construct new wells to tap unused water. The Emergency Community Water Assistance Grants provides grants for other projects, such as building a new reservoir, constructing ...
City of Muskegon Heights – $135,000 Village of Westphalia – $15,000 The Clean Michigan Water Plan will move hundreds of millions of dollars in state assistance to improving drinking water quality and bolstering wastewater protections for Michiganders throughout the state....
A disaster expert notes that even bottled water isn’t always the most useful donation. For example, 100,000 liters of water will provide drinking water for 40,000 people for one day. Shipping that amount of water from the United States to West Africa would cost about $300,000. However,...
000 people, according to the EPA, and of those, about 80% serve fewer than 500 people. Small public water systems often have limited budgets, old infrastructure, and high staff turnover, noted the EPA, all of which make it challenging to meet federal and state safe drinking water ...
A multi-environmental tracer study to determine groundwater residence times and recharge in a structurally complex multi-aquifer system Despite being the main drinking water resource for over five million people, the water balance of the Eastern Mountain Aquifer system on the western side o... Wil...
Two of those are Cliff Bennett and his son Travis who get up every morning at 5:00 to water and plant fifty flower baskets scattered throughout downtown Grants Pass. The Bennetts have provided this beautification program to local residents for the last ten years and should be honored for ...
The National Science Foundation postponed this week’s panels for reviewing grant applications. Officials in Prichard, Alabama, feared they wouldn’t receive infrastructure funding to fix their leaking drinking water system. Republican leaders in Louisiana said they were “seekin...