Financial and Technical Assistance
Financial Assistance
Water 2025 Challenge Grant Program
Through the Challenge Grant Program, Reclamation provides funding on a 50/50 cost share basis to irrigation and water districts for projects focused on water conservation, efficiency, and water marketing. Projects are selected through a competitive process, based on their ability to meet the goals identified in Water 2025: Preventing Crisis and Conflict in the West. Eligible applicants must be located in the western United States as identified in the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, and include irrigation and/or water districts, tribal water authorities, and entities created under State law with water delivery authority, which may include water user associations, water conservancy districts, canal, ditch and reservoir companies, and municipal water authorities. For more information, visit Reclamation's Water 2025 website or contact your local representative, Mark Niblack.
2004 Water 2025 Challenge Grant Recipients in the Yuma area:
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance includes water conservation planning, environmental review for water conservation projects, and engineering design.
The Water Conservation Field Services Program
In 1997, the Bureau of Reclamation initiated the Water Conservation Field Services Program (WCFSP) to encourage water conservation and efficient use of water supplies on federal Reclamation projects, as well as foster improved water management on a watershed basis throughout the Western states. For additional information, visit Reclamation's Water Conservation Field Services Program website, or contact your local representative, Mark Niblack.