The Biden administration announced on Aug. 18 that nearly $310 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is being allocated to help aid water reuse projects across the country as drought conditions worsen.
The announcement comes following Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland’s and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton’s two-day tour through central and southern California, which included a visit to the Syphon Reservoir Improvement Project at the Irvine Ranch Water District.
According to a press release from the U.S. Department of Interior, approximately $309.8 million in funding from President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law, which was passed in November last year, will go toward the planning, design, and construction of the water reuse projects. That bill allocated $8.3 billion to the Bureau of Reclamation for water infrastructure projects….