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: New Mexico, Arizona
City: Alamogordo and Yuma
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/15/2023
Size of the Grant:
- Funding Group I: $250,000
- Funding Group II: $800,000
Details:
The goal of the DWPR Program is to increase water supplies by reducing the cost, energy consumption, and environmental impacts of treating impaired and otherwise unusable waters. This DWPR Research NOFO invites applicants to address any of the following objectives:
- Develop or improve process or approaches to reduce the cost, energy consumption, feasibility, and/or environmental impacts of desalination and water treatment Improve existing membrane technologies, including reverse osmosis, electrodialysis, nanofiltration, membrane filtration, and pretreatment processes
- Carry out basic and applied research on next-generation desalination technologies, including improved energy recovery systems and renewable energy-powered desalination systems
- Develop cost-effective approaches for concentrate management that address feasibility, cost, and/or environmental impacts
- Develop technologies or processes for the selective removal of nutrients and other target contaminants
- Study methods for the recovery of byproducts resulting from desalination to offset the costs of treatment and to reduce environmental impacts from those byproducts
- Develop improved intake/outfall methods at coastal facilities to minimize marine environment impacts such as impingement of larger organisms, entrainment of smaller ones, and impacts to benthic communities
- Develop a better understanding of pathogen removal efficiencies and the variability of performance in various unit processes and multibarrier treatment and develop ways to optimize these processes
- Identify better indicators and surrogates to monitor process performance in desalination and reuse scenarios and develop online real-time or near real-time analytical monitoring techniques for their measurement
- Develop a better understanding of the formation of hazardous and other transformation products during water treatment for reuse and ways to minimize or remove them
- Improve the detection, characterization, monitoring, and separation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and other contaminants of concern
- Develop new technologies or processes for the destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
Program Requirements
Reclamation’s Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and the Water Quality Improvement Center in Yuma, Arizona, may be available if a location for testing is needed.
Funding Information
- Approximately $2,000,000 is available for this NOFO, with per-project limits as described
- Maximum award for Funding Group I: $250,000
- Maximum award for Funding Group II: $800,000
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants eligible to receive an award to fund include:
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Native American tribal governments (other than federally recognized)
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Individuals
- For profit organization other than small businesses
- Small businesses
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
