$1.2M Grant Announced to Improve Water System
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By Melissa M. Scallan, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 16--LONG BEACH -- The city of Long Beach is getting a $1.2-million federal grant to improve its hurricane-damaged water system, officials announced Friday.   The money is coming from the U.S.
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By TONI-LYNN ROBBINS; OF THE NEWS STAFF  HERMON - The town has received a community planning grant to research extending public water and sewer into the village area.
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By Heather Rutz, The Lima News, Ohio  Feb. 16--LIMA -- The city's utilities department has completed the first phase of a computer system upgrade that is improving service for customers, field operations and plant management.
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By The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Jun. 1--Most Americans have never had to cope for long periods without access to running water. But for many of the residents of Blackmon Road, running water and adequate plumbing had been unattainable luxuries -- until last week.
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By Rick Armon, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Jun. 7--SILVER LAKE -- Faced with a dwindling water fund that will soon run out of money, village officials will begin debating today whether to raise water rates by as much as 17.2 percent.  "We need to address rates soon.
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The head of the Environment Agency calls for Â£1bn a year to prevent future flooding, as waters continue to rise.
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By Jim Sparks, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Jan. 31--North Carolina's land trusts will use a $150,000 grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation to put a strategy in place for expanding conservation and water-protection efforts in the state over the next two years.
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By the numbers: a snapshot of development's impact on water usage in the basin.
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By M.K. Guetersloh  BLOOMINGTON - The city may be looking for short-term solutions that may increase Bloomington's water supply and improve its quality.
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Town officials are hoping the state can unearth $1.4 million to help bring sewers to the Medway 495 Business Park. Otherwise, they say, some 250 area jobs may be lost -- not to mention thousands of dollars in annual tax revenue.
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By Joe Orso, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Mar. 8--Great Rivers United Way will give out $50,000 in venture grants to nonprofit health and human service agencies in the area, officials said Wednesday.
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By Anonymous  Researchers at West Virginia University's West Virginia Water Research Institute have received a grant to develop a water quality trading program aimed at reducing pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.
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By NICK SAMBIDES, JR.; OF THE NEWS STAFF  LINCOLN - Now that the Town Council has accepted a $38,000 federal matching grant, the town's economic development assistant and zoning enforcement supervisor will start working with an engineer to design a children's fishing pond, she said Tuesday.
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A &#36;1.63 million grant has been given to Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute to further research on alcohol's effect on metabolism.
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A $1.2 million federal grant will help students in the Washington Elementary School District shape up. The Phoenix district has received the 2004 Carol M. White Physical Education Program grant from the US
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The Water Department notified residents Thursday that on Aug. 26 bacteria was found in the water supply in the Oak Street area, where construction is now taking place to install new water mains.
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Hull is to receive Â£2.1m to help it recover from last month's floods - the biggest share of government aid.