This is pretty great: today, D.C. Water — never an agency to shy away from fun ways of interacting with its customers — released “A Drop’s Life,” an “informational cartoon” to explain to the public the Clean Rivers Project, a 20-year, $2.6 billion program that’s supposed to “reduce combined-sewer runoff to the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers and Rock Creek by 96 percent.”

The District Department of Transportation on Wednesday announced the ten projects that have been selected to receive funding through DDOT’s Transportation Enhancement Program. The funding includes grants ranging from $50,000 to $579,500 that go toward making improvements on a variety of transportation related projects. Funding for the program is provided through the Federal Highway Administration. A full list of the selected projects from the DDOT announcement is after the jump….