The United States Department of the Interior (Department), Bureau of Reclamation’s (Reclamation) Desalination and Water Purification Research Program (DWPR) works with Reclamation researchers and partners to develop innovative, cost-effective, and technologically efficient ways to desalinate and treat water.
Donor Name: Bureau of Reclamation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/12/2022
Grant Size: $200,000
Grant Duration: 18 months
Details:
The objectives of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) are to develop innovative and disruptive new technologies or processes to:
- Reduce the costs, energy requirements, and/or environmental impacts of treating impaired and unusable water to standards necessary for an identified beneficial use.
- Improve efficiency of water treatment processes—either by improvements to pre-treatment, post-treatment, monitoring, sensors, or other innovative process/technology.
- Increase effectiveness of reverse osmosis/nanofiltration concentrate management by reducing cost, energy, and/or environmental impacts.
- Treat brackish groundwater in a less energy-intensive way than current processes and technologies.
- Address costs, energy usage, and/or environmental impacts of seawater desalination, including intakes and/or outfalls
- Improve the detection, characterization, monitoring, separation, or destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and other contaminants of concern.
Funding Information
Up to $200,000 per applicant for a Phase II project that can be completed within 18 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individuals
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
