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Pacific Western Bank and Rural LISC have announced a $1 million loan to Self-Help Enterprises as part of a collaborative effort to alleviate drought conditions in the San Joaquin Valley. The funding will be used to provide low-income residents with permanent solutions including low-interest loans to drill a deeper or new well.

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Self-Help Enterprises has designed an 11-house development, which should begin construction in March or April 2016 in the rural community of Traver (Tulare County).

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Self-Help Enterprises’ Highland Acres apartment rental community is included in a roundup of accomplishments in Visalia.

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Pacific Western Bank and Rural LISC have announced a $1 million loan to Self-Help Enterprises as part of a collaborative effort to alleviate drought conditions in the San Joaquin Valley. The funding will be used to provide low-income residents with permanent solutions including low-interest loans to drill a deeper or new well.

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Self-Help Enterprises is working with Lake of the Woods (LOW) Mutual Water Company to possibly connect to the Frazier Park Public Utility District (FPPUD) and form their own water system in order to provide long-term drought relief. With the assistance of Self-Help Enterprises, LOW and FPPUD secured a $202,265 grant for pre-planning research into whether a regional system is feasible.

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During the last four years California has been ravaged by drought and wildfire that has left people without homes and farmers without crops. In the final programme in the Local Warming series presenter Sasha Khokha takes a trip around her home state of California to see what climate change means to people and how far they are willing to go to address it. Self-Help Enterprises’ water tank program is featured in this climate change piece.

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The City of Farmersville was awarded one of the first Public Works Project of the Year Award for Small Cities/Rural Communities by the American Public Works Association for its quick work in solving the water crisis in the neighboring community of Cameron Creek Colony, where Self-Help Enterprises was working with the residents.

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Self-Help Enterprises is working with the Tooleville Mutual Non-profit Water Association to connect residents to Exeter’s water system.

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Kings County is partnering with Self-Help Enterprises on an emergency water distribution plan designed to provide water for residents who lost their water supply because of drought.

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Short-term solutions for residents impacted by the drought include Tulare County’s Household Tank Program, which includes installing the household tanks and  filling them with water, supplying bottled water to homes, assessing water needs in communities and public outreach. The County is investing $309,000 in the water tank program.

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