The State has announced its second and third round of funding
commitments for $28 million in drought funding through the Small
Community Drought Relief program. This comes after the Department
of Water Resources allocated its
first round of funding last month.
The awards are split
among 15 communities in eight different counties: Fresno,
Glenn, Lake, Madera, Mendocino, Santa Barbara, Sonoma, and Yuba.
The
Small Community Drought Relief Program is designed to provide
technical and financial assistance to qualifying communities
affected by drought. In addition, they establish county-wide
hauled and bottle water programs in Mendocino and Glenn Counties
to provide immediate potable water supply to residents who have
run out of water due to drought.
DWR has announced that it expects to launch the Urban and
Multibenefit Drought Relief Grant Program later this fall. The
program will include an additional $200 million in grant funding
for urban water suppliers and multi-benefit drought relief
projects to address hardships caused by drought.
