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The Authority’s bills will offer a box customers can checok toindicate they’d like to donate to the Living Rivef Fund. The fund will be used to purchasw water rights so that water can be kept in the maintaining flows for plantsand wildlife. Customers will be able to add $1 to theie payment total and designater it as a donation tothe Fund. The boxees will appear on bills startingtthis month. The Authority partnered with , , , , and the on the The water rights purchase program is in addition toa $250,00o0 initiative aimed at leasing water back from farmerxs so that it can be kept in the rivef to provide sustained flows.
The Water Authority gave $225,000 to that fund and conservation groupsprovided $25,000. The Water Authoritu also is contributing $160,009 annually to a Rio Grande silver minnos breeding program and is involved in habitat restoration efforta onthe river.
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