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Orange County water officials decided to solve both problems at the same time. The result is the Groundwater Replenishment System (GRS), a glistening, $480 million facility that sits next to an older sewage-treatment plant. The GRS takes in about 70 million gal. of wastewater a day, puts it through a multistep cleaning process, then discharges the treated water into Orange County's aquifers. About half forms a barrier against seawater, which has been infiltrating groundwater sources as the county has dried up, while the other half slowly filters into the aquifers that supply drinking water for the county...
Under the old pen-and-paper system, inspectors could check out about 20 properties a day, according to Mills. The computerized geocoded map allows them to catalog 10 times as many...
...including cholera, daily power outages, and having running water only eight hours a day—she says her only complaint was minor. “The quality of teaching was not the same,” she says. Though not having access to the Harvard library system for her research was a challenge, she says that sitting at meetings of high-ranking government and church officials conveniently worked out.Finally back at Harvard, Peisker is completing her requirements while putting her thesis to paper. And she says the benefits of going abroad were not purely academic. Ealier this month, Peisker...
...been contacting them to inform them that they should plan for their future medical care. Of the 800 patients CHA had reached by Dec. 10, only six had indicated that they would leave the alliance for another healthcare provider, Bailey said. CHA is a public hospital system that has several locations in the northern Boston metropolitan area. Many of its services are aimed at serving low-income patients, thus making the alliance heavily reliant on state Medicaid funding. —Staff writer Bora Fezga can be reached bfezga@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached...
...McLeod received nearly 41 percent of first-place votes, with 1,493, slightly over 39 per cent and 1,427 votes for rivals Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 and Alnead D. Biggers ’10. After votes were redistributed according to the UC’s system, known as Hare-Clark, in which students cast single transferable votes, the Flores ticket had 1,791 votes compared to 1,634 for Schwartz...