Turning Water Into Jobs

Using water research to create businesses, jobs, and new technologies throughout Greater Cincinnati will be the focus of a new cluster of federal agencies, colleges and small companies.

The top national officials at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Small Business Administration came to the EPA's research labs off Martin Luther King Drive Tuesday to unveil a Water Technology Innovation Cluster.

They hope it can leverage as much as $11.5 million in federal money by creating clean-water technologies.

"We're taking the first step toward meeting our 21st-century water needs," EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said.

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