Getting help to farmers, threatened fish species, and local public health agencies is the focus of an initial round of emergency drought grants from the Washington Department of Ecology. The $750,000 in grant funding was made available July 28 when Ecology adopted an emergency drought funding rule.
The rule comes two weeks after a July 14 emergency drought declaration emergency, which covered nearly all of Washington state. Click here for more information.

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