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Austrailan Government Water Fund - Community Water Grants - http://www.communitywatergrants.gov.au/faq/index.html

As part of the Australian Government's $2 billion Australian Water Fund, $200 million will be available over the next 5 years for community grants of up to $50,000 to save and protect water resources through practical on-the-ground work. - Read more Listing Thumbnail

Community Water Rights Project - Ecology Center - http://www.ecologycenter.org/cwrp/

The Community Water Rights Project is fiscally sponsored by the Ecology Center to perform community environmental justice advocacy and research to educate decision makers and the general public about public rights in water and to suggest how enforcement of these rights can shape ecologically and socially responsible water management in California. - Read more Listing Thumbnail

ENLACE el salvador - las delicias water project - http://www.enlaceonline.org/las-delicias-water-project/

Provides water purification systemd and community training. - Read more Listing Thumbnail

SALSA Mexico Campaign - http://www.tucson.ars.ag.gov

The Semi-Arid Land-Surface Atmosphere project's "Mexico Campaign" focuses on two research sites including the Sonora-U.S. border to conduct an intensive field campaign to measure upland water and energy fluxes. - Read more Listing Thumbnail

Transboundary Area - Community Water Management Project - http://www.care.org/careswork/projects/GHA036.asp

The Ghana/Cote d'Ivoire Community Water Management Project is a Transboundary Area project between south western part of Ghana and the south eastern part of Cote d'Ivoire. This one year project is part of Community Watershed Partnership Program (CWPP) of USAID and is jointly funded by USAID, GETF and the Coca cola Foundation aimed at promoting sustainable use, management and protection of the water resources in the Tano River basin which stretches from the Brong Ahafo Region in Ghana and empties into the Abi Lagoon in Cote d'Ivoire. It is therefore a shared resource. - Read more Listing Thumbnail

UNDP | Environment & Energy - http://www.undp.org/water/initiatives/initiative.html

The Community Water Initiative was developed in response to the World Summit on Sustainable Development call for concrete actions to meet global challenges in the field of water and sanitation. The Community Water Initiative has functioned as a decentralized, demand driven funding mechanism for sustainable community-based water and sanitation development and management. The Initiative operates closely with the existing UNDP small grant mechanisms and includes their proven effective features. - Read more Listing Thumbnail

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Diageo Reuses Waste From Manufacturing
In an effort to reduce its carbon footprint and ultimately send zero waste from its manufacturing facilities to landfills, Diageo, the world's leading spirits, wine and beer company, recently announced that its Plainfield, Illinois facility is implementing a new byproduct reuse initiative that will send berries and seeds from gin production to Waste Management, Inc.'s local composting site.

Box4Water – turning wastewater into drinking water
The Luxembourg-based cleantech company Epuramat recently introduced its newly developed container water treatment facility Box4Water to the public for the first time. Box4Water can treat very dirty wastewater all the way up to drinking water quality.

Sanitation: slow progress, action crucial, say 2400 experts in Stockholm
Slow progress on sanitation will cause the world to badly fail the Millennium Development Goals while weak policy, poor management, increasing waste and exploding water demands are pushing the planet towards the tipping point of global water crisis.

California "water bank" in works amid drought
California's state government is forming a "water bank" to buy water for local water agencies at risk of shortages next year should a current drought persist, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Thursday. Schwarzenegger in June declared the most populous U.S. state to officially be in drought and declared nine counties in its farm-rich Central Valley to be in a state of emergency because water supplies were so low after two years of below-average rainfall.