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NEWS RELEASE
CONTACT:
Elaina Hunt, Data Instincts
(707) 836-0300,
Elaina@DataInstincts.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Principal of Data Instincts to serve on
national USDA Water Quality Grants panel
Mark Millan, principal of Data Instincts, Public
Outreach Consultants, served on the CSREES Water
Quality Competitive Grants Program panel to advance
successful water quality efforts benefiting the
nation. The twelve member panel convened in
Washington DC on June 5, 2007 for three days to
review and award grants to study programs and
projects that improve water quality.
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and
Extension Service (CSREES) is an agency within the
U.S. Department of Agriculture, part of the
Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
The goal of the CSREES National Water Quality
Program (NWQP) is to protect or improve the quality
of water resources throughout the U.S. and its
territories, particularly in agriculturally managed
watersheds. It seeks to address this goal at the
national, regional, state, and local levels.
Millan has been active for over 15 years in
recycled water and water conservation projects in
Northern California including the Geysers Recharge
Project, Santa Rosa’s Incremental Recycle Water
Program (IRWP), Redwood City’s Recycled Water
Project, the San Francisco Public Utilities
Commission (SFPUC) recycled water projects, and, in
Windsor, the Vintage Greens residential
dual-plumbing water reuse project and the Eastside
Road Storage Project.
Millan also serves as national chairman of the
Public Education and Outreach Committee for the
WateReuse Association.
About CSREES National Water Quality Program (NWQP)
NWQP brings university scientists, instructors,
and extension educators into more effective and
efficient partnerships with federal interagency
priority programs to address water quality issues in
U.S. agriculture. A key emphasis of the program is
integration of extension, research, and education
resources to solve water quality problems at the
local level.
www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/nre/in_focus/water_if_waterquality.html
CSREES Vision: Agriculture is a knowledge-based,
global enterprise sustained by the innovation of
scientists and educators.
CSREES Mission: To advance knowledge for
agriculture, the environment, human health and well
being, and communities.
For more information, call (707) 836-0300 or visit
http://www.DataInstincts.com.
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