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  • 04 Sep 2024 2:28 PM | Melissa Sieben (Administrator)

    The Biden administration announced a goal Tuesday to protect and restore 8 million acres of wetlands over the next six years in an effort to counter development pressures and recently weakened federal regulations.

    The bold new target seeks to reverse the ongoing loss of U.S. wetlands, which help keep pollutants out of rivers and streams and act as a natural buffer against flooding. Over 60 percent of wetlands now lack protections under the Clean Water Act for the first time in decades after the Supreme Court curtailed the law’s scope last year.

    To read the full article:

    Biden admin vows to restore 8M acres of wetlands - E&E News by POLITICO (eenews.net)

  • 04 Sep 2024 2:23 PM | Melissa Sieben (Administrator)

    WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Interior and Bureau of Reclamation will send $242 million to five projects in Western states to improve water storage and clean drinking water supply.

    The money, part of the president’s domestic infrastructure and manufacturing agenda and funded through the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law, is expected to develop 1.6 million acre-feet of water storage, supporting 6.4 million people per year. Projects in Colorado, Arizona, Washington state and California will receive funding.

    The Arkansas Valley Conduit, a major pipeline project in Colorado that has stalled for decades, is set to receive $90 million. Once completed, it will bring clean water to 50,000 people in 39 communities across the southeastern portion of the state, according to a release from the Bureau of Reclamation.

    To read the full article:

    Five water projects in Western states to receive $242M from feds - The Columbian

  • 04 Sep 2024 2:10 PM | Melissa Sieben (Administrator)

    Arizona's Santa Cruz River is currently imperiled. Stretching for 180 miles through major cities like Tucson and into the Sonoran desert, the Santa Cruz River is in danger of drying up because of human factors like climate change and irresponsible wastewater disposal. Yet even though sewage is not the stuff of romance and legend, the same gross stuff that has helped imperil the Santa Cruz River may help save it.

    Wastewater is filled with human feces, garbage and other gross gunk that carries dangerous disease, and is piped away from our civilization for that reason. Yet according to a recent study in the journal Restoration Ecology, effluent — or sewage that has been dumped into a body of water, like a river or ocean — can be used to help the environment, at least if used strategically.

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    Just add sewage: How a bone-dry river bed became a thriving haven for desert wildlife | Salon.com


  • 04 Sep 2024 2:07 PM | Melissa Sieben (Administrator)

    Cedar City gained over $2 million in grant funds to begin a wastewater project that could give the city another water source for turf irrigation at schools, parks and the golf course.

    The grant allows the project to begin Phase 1, funding the construction of a Type 1 effluent filtration system at the Cedar City Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility. Effluent water is wastewater. The new system would allow the plant to improve the water produced from Type 2 to Type 1 by using pile cloth disc filters. So, it would be considered safe for human contact and can be used for irrigation at the Cedar Ridge Golf Course and local parks and schools, according to the City Council packet. The water is currently being discharged onto farmland near the plant.

    Read the full story at St. George Utah.com:

    'Small piece of the pie': Cedar City gains over $2M in grant funds for wastewater project | News | stgeorgeutah.com

  • 04 Sep 2024 1:50 PM | Melissa Sieben (Administrator)

    Water scarcity could threaten the Midwest as climate change puts pressure on water systems. With that scarcity, legal fights over water could become more common.

    Where the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers meet north of St. Louis, the powerful waterways form a line in the middle of their flows, at first refusing to mix together in their new union.

    As it cuts across the state on its way to meet the Mississippi, the Missouri River irrigates crops, cools the systems at nuclear and coal power plants and quenches millions of Missourians’ thirst as the largest source of drinking water in the state.

    See full article on KCUR:

    Climate change could bring more water fights to Midwest | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR


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