(Radio Iowa) – Five Iowa companies are receiving more than eight million dollars in state water infrastructure grants.

AgCertain in Boone is getting a grant of three-point-nine million dollars for a new system that the company says will reduce city water usage by 85 percent and lower costs by one-point-two million dollars. Arconic in Davenport will use the two-point-two million dollar grant for a system it says will cut their water use by nearly 77 percent. C-J Bio in Fort Dodge says its one-point-eight million dollar grant will reduce its water draw from the city by 600-thousand gallons a day and their wastewater discharge will drop by 760-thousand gallons a day.

Prairie Farms, Dubuque says it will use the 275-thousand dollar grant to cut water used and wastewater from its dairy operations — saving them 85-thousand dollars in water costs. Hormel Foods in Dubuque says its 57-thousand dollar grant will help reduce water demand from the city by nine percent and waster water discharge by nearly 12 percent.