District Awards $223,500 in Water Project Grants

The Santa Clara Valley Water District (California) awarded $223,500 in grants to five innovative projects expected to help the district meet its long-term goal of saving more than 32 billion gallons of water each year by 2030.The five awardees — four from the private sector and one from the public — were selected from a pool of 10 applicants in the second round of competition for grants from the Safe, Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection Program, a parcel tax approved by voters in 2012. By opening up the grants to private and public organizations, the district could take advantage