September 2019, Vol. 246, No. 9
Government
Water Infrastructure Bill Introduced
The Senate is looking to pass bipartisan water infrastructure bills aimed mostly at providing funding for dams, irrigation and water conservation, and rejuvenation projects in the Western U.S. under the auspices of the Bureau of Reclamation, an Interior Department agency. Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) introduced the most prominent of three separate bills called the Drought Resiliency and Water Supply Infrastructure Act (S. 1932). The drought resiliency legislation includes a five-year, $100 million reauthorization of the Bureau of Reclamation’s (BOR) Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse competitive grant p

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