Washington County receives $20.5M for regional water reuse project

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ST. GEORGE — Earlier this year the Washington County Water Conservancy District received a $7 million grant from the Bureau of Reclamation for Chief Toquer Reservoir. On Tuesday, the bureau's commissioner announced the water district as the recipient of $20.5 million in funding for its regional reuse water system project.

"Investment in water recycling and reuse are key to stretching limit water supplies (and) making systems more resilient to the effects of aridification in the American West," Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton said during a press conference held at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California on Tuesday afternoon.

Touton was in California to announce the bureau's $179 million investment in water projects focused on drought resilience and increasing water security for communities across the West through President Joe Biden's Investing in America agenda. Overall funding for these projects comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

"Water recycling plays a critical role in improving sustainable water supplies," Touton said. "It's an innovative and cost-effective tool that can help make our water supply more reliable, helping communities find new sources to meet their needs today, but most importantly, to meet our needs in the future."

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