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34162
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July 17, 1989 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, which established the original fifty state water resources research institutes. The Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina began operating in 1965. Since then, the institute has responded to major water problems in the state through hundreds of water-related research projects and through support of graduate and undergraduate students.
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34163
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In August, William W. Cobey, Jr. was sworn in as the first secretary of North Carolina’s newest governmental agency, the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources. The new department combines many of the Health Services programs from the Department of Human Resources with divisions of the now defunct Department of Natural Resources and Community Development.
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34164
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The 1989 Session of the North Carolina General Assembly considered a host of environmentally related bills and passed a number that could have significant effects on water quantity and quality statewide. Legislation pertain to solid waste, a state water supply plan, watershed classification, stormwater runoff, and erosion control.