While expressing worry that a water crisis could be looming from drought and population growth, a House committee passed Wednesday a bill by Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, to create new federal research programs on how to expand water supplies.
Matheson's bill would create the new program in the Environmental Protection Agency to research such things as how to expand supplies through collection and reuse of rainwater and greywater; research on water storage and distribution systems; and research on social and economic barriers to greater water efficiency.
The bill was passed by the House Science and Technology Committee, and now goes to the full House
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