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July 07, 2009
Sweet Water Trust and Environmental Partners Get Water Quality Grant
It was announced today in Milwaukee,WI that the Southeastern Wisconsin Watersheds Trust, also known as the "Sweet Water Trust" has been awarded a three year $1.9 million grant from the Joyce Foundation, which will be used to improve water quality in the Milwaukee River
Basin.
The grant is to be shared with the 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, Clean Wisconsin, the Midwest Environmental Advocates, the Milwaukee RiverKeeper, the River Alliance of Wisconsin, the River Revitalization Foundation, and the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center.
"This investment provides enormous momentum toward making measurable
improvements in our water quality," stated Pat Marchese, Chairman of the Sweet Water Trust Executive Steering Council. "The grant will enable the Trust and its environmental partners to work collaboratively to build community support for implementing cost effective water quality improvement projects in the
Greater Milwaukee Watersheds."
The Joyce Foundation, based in Chicago, supports efforts to protect the Great Lakes, to reduce poverty and violence in the region, and to ensure its residents have good schools, decent jobs, a strong democracy, and a diverse and thriving culture, as reported by the Sweet Water Trust and published by Reuters.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at July 7, 2009 02:44 PM
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