Last week, the South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources announced the approval of either small interest loans or grants to fund nine different water quality projects.  A total of $103.5 million dollars will be spent to upgrade water quality, sewer, and wastewater projects.  Mike Perkovick is the administrator of environmental services.  He talks about the water grant and loan program.

Perkovick says the state usually allocates funding for various civic water projects four times a year.  Perkovick tells of some of the communities to benefit from this round of funding.