Drinking Water: Community Facilities and Drought-Affected Councils

drinking water: Sixty drought-affected councils across western Queensland, NSW and Victoria will be handed 1 million each by the federal government to spend on anything from trucking in drinking water to building new community facilities, according to Nine News Australia. The grants are part of new funding Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced to help farmers and communities, bringing the total support offered by the federal government so far to 1.8 billion. To improve your experience update it here News National Million dollar boosts for 60 drought-affected towns2 56pm Aug 19, reeling from Australia's worst drought in more than 50 years will be given extra funding to help deal with the dry conditions in their own way. Malcolm Turnbull has announced phase two of his drought relief plan in Forbes, NSW. 9news PM Turnbull will visit Forbes, NSW today to announce phase two of the federal government's drought relief package. 9news Mr Turnbull said the government was responding to feedback it has received from many farmers in recent weeks. This is really important, to get some more cash into these communities, to do long overdue work of the type the councils are always attending to, he said in a video on Facebook. Giving money to councils 36 in NSW, 22 in Queensland and two in Victoria, would help inject money into towns, he said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.