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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Alliance for the Great Lakes: "water conservation can create new jobs"

http://www.greatlakes.org/Page.aspx?pid=842

The Alliance is calling on Congress to direct $10 billion of emerging federal economic recovery funds to much-needed water conservation efforts.

A new Alliance report, “Water Works: How Water Conservation Can Create Jobs & Leave Our Nation’s Waters Better for Future Generations,” advises that an infusion of $10 billion in congressional economic recovery funds could create some 200,000 jobs.

Because energy consumption plays such a major role in treatment and delivery of potable water, conservation of H20 will lead to savings in energy.  
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