Last Minute Loan Keeps Drinking Water Projects Afloat
Small, failing drinking water systems got a funding life preserver among a flurry of budget bills at the chaotic end of the California legislative session.
Drinking water advocates had fretted the Safe and Affordable Funding for Equity and Resilience (SAFER) program, intended to help struggling water systems in mostly poor, rural areas, would fall victim to the pandemic-flattened economy.
