{"id":15090,"date":"2023-02-03T11:06:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=15090"},"modified":"2023-02-03T11:53:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:53:34","slug":"community-projects-to-cope-with-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/community-projects-to-cope-with-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"California grants $46 million to community projects to face the drought"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: California Department of Water Resources<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Department of Water Resources<\/a> DWR today announced $46 million in grants for nine community-based drought relief projects in six counties through the Urban Community Drought Relief Grant program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The $46 million in financial assistance will provide critical support to implement drought relief projects and build long-term resilience to severe weather in communities across the state, and will help advance efforts outlined in Governor Newsom\u2019s strategy to adapt California\u2019s water supply for a warmer, drier future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While recent storms improved conditions and helped fill many of the state's reservoirs to or above average levels, the state is looking at a return to dry conditions in the coming months, with much of California continuing to experience drought impacts after the three driest years on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCalifornia faces the real-time impacts of a changing climate, as evidenced by our state\u2019s historic drought and recent flood emergency. Preparing for a future impacted by climate change means not only supporting new water supply efforts, but also strategies that capture excess flows during extreme wet events,\u201d said DWR Director Karla Nemeth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday\u2019s funding, with more than half invested in underrepresented communities, will help strengthen water supply reliability across the state by supporting recycled water and groundwater recharge infrastructure while promoting smart water use,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The $46 million in financial assistance will boost projects that support water recycling, flood risk management\/groundwater recharge, improving water supply reliability, and landscape transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2022 Urban Community Drought Relief program is designed to address the impacts of drought on California communities while promoting water conservation. Of the total funding announced Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, $28 million will advance drought relief projects to improve water supply reliability in underrepresented communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a changing climate making swings between drought and flooding more extreme, California must continue to implement new programs to manage water in this new climate reality, DWR said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that regard, he stressed that Californians must continue to use water wisely, both indoors and outdoors, so that the economy, community and environment continue to prosper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second phase of grants will be announced in spring 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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El Departamento de Recursos H\u00eddricos \u2012DWR, por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s\u2012 anunci\u00f3 hoy la concesi\u00f3n de subvenciones por 46 millones de d\u00f3lares para nueve proyectos comunitarios para afrontar la sequ\u00eda en seis condados a trav\u00e9s del programa Urban Community Drought Relief Grant. Los 46 millones de d\u00f3lares en asistencia financiera brindar\u00e1n un apoyo fundamental para […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-habitat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15094,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15090\/revisions\/15094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}