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Daily Yonder blog: Rural poverty rate reaches 18.3% in 2011

Posted Mon, 2013/01/14 - 12:00pm by RCAP

The Daily Yonder blog reported Jan. 8 that "the percentage of people living in poverty increased from 15.8 percent of those living in rural counties in 2007, before the recession began, to 18.3 percent in 2011."

EPA to provide nearly $2 million to revitalize U.S. urban waters

Posted Thu, 2011/12/08 - 11:25am by RCAP

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Dec. 7 it will provide up to $1.8 million for projects across the country to protect Americans’ health and help restore urban waters by improving water quality and supporting community revitalization. The funding is part of EPA’s Urban Waters program, which supports communities in their efforts to access, improve and benefit from their urban waters and the surrounding land. Urban waters are canals, rivers, lakes, wetlands, aquifers, estuaries, bays and oceans.

A message from RCAP for World Water Day (March 22)

Posted Mon, 2011/03/21 - 3:24pm by RCAP

March 22 every year is World Water Day. It is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. A website started in 2001 serves as a community space and repository where people can upload their WWD event activities and reports.