[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Director Owens Announces $8, 050 Grant to Educate Apache Youth About Water Quality

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ADEQ Director Owens Announces $8,050 Grant to Educate Apache Youth About
Water Quality 

PHOENIX (July 17, 2008) - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
(ADEQ) Director Steve Owens today announced that an $8,050 grant has
been awarded to the Gila Watershed Partnership to fund a water quality
improvement education project for Native American youth in the Coronado
National Forest in Graham County.

The grant was awarded to the Gila Watershed Partnership to educate young
members of the Apache tribe about improving water quality in the Upper
Gila Watershed. The funds will be used to develop a summer camp in the
nearby Mount Graham area that would include environmental and cultural
activities.

The five-day, Dzil Nchaa Si'An youth camp will encourage youths to
pursue careers managing natural resources and increasing ecological
awareness while enjoying the outdoors.

"We have been working closely with the Gila Watershed Partnership on a
number of successful joint projects for the past several years,"
Director Owens said. "We are pleased to continue to support the work of
the Partnership in this unique undertaking with the Native American
community.   It is especially important to help young members of the
Apache Tribe and other tribal nations learn how to protect water quality
and other precious natural resources   This camp is a terrific idea."

The grant is funded with federal dollars provided to ADEQ under the
federal Clean Water Act.

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News media interested in additional information on this or any other
topic concerning the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality should
contact the Office of Communications at (602) 771-2215 or via email at
communications@azdeq.gov.

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