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- The US government announced it would spend $250 million on environmental cleanup and restoration work around a drying Southern California lake.
- The money will help speed up existing state projects designed to lower the negative environmental impact of the drying lake bed.
“The collaboration happening at the Salton Sea between water agencies and state, federal, and tribal governments is a blueprint for effective cooperation that the Colorado River Basin sorely needs,” said the district’s general manager JB Hamby.
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