Following up on an agreement made last year, the Palm Desert, Calif., club has begun using recycled water for irrigation, reducing the pumping of groundwater from an aquifer that has been declining. The Berger Foundation loaned the water district more than $2.2 million to complete the pipeline that officials say expedited the project by two or three years.

The commitment was made at a meeting with officials of the region’s water district, “not as a response to the drought,” said the group’s spokesman, “[but as] a response to the whole notion of long-term sustainability.”

The H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation is pleased to announce that its Classic Club golf course, Palm Dessert, Calif., has been designated as a “Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary” through the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses, an Audubon International Program.   To reach certification, a golf course must demonstrate that they are maintaining…