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A bill that aims to encourage irrigators to accurately report their water use is making its way through the Oklahoma legislature.
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The Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust will receive a more than $50 million loan from the Oklahoma Water Resources Board for wastewater infrastructure improvements.
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Communities across Oklahoma benefitted from lots of rain last month. But as water levels rose in ditches and storm drains on July 9, the levels in one of Bethany’s water towers started to drop.
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The Oklahoma Water Resources Board approved federal pandemic relief funding for two dam rehabilitation projects in Southwestern Oklahoma last week.
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The Oklahoma Water Resources Board is developing a new Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan to ensure the state has enough good water over the next 50 years. The OWRB is hosting rounds of public input meetings across the state starting in August.
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A measure to prohibit water rights protests passed both chambers, but its author says it’s still awaiting revisions that aren’t likely to meet deadlines, according to reporting from the Tulsa World.
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A rural sociologist at the University of Oklahoma found that investments in water infrastructure have positive impacts on rural communities—but they may require some patience.
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Hundreds of Oklahoma cities, towns and rural water districts applied for competitive grants to fund water and wastewater projects. The Oklahoma Water Resources Board has announced 76 communities across the state that are likely to receive that money and released a list that ranks all the applications by funding priority.
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President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law just over a year ago, allocating over $50 billion to improve drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure across the country.
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The Oklahoma Water Resources Board is working on a comprehensive plan to protect Oklahomans from the effects of flooding. To do that, the board is gathering information about flooding across the state.