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Funding available to develop new water treatment technologies

Media Contact: Peter Soeth, 303-445-3615, psoeth@usbr.gov

For Release: May 04, 2020

The Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility may be hosting the pitch event in September. WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is making up to $1 million available through its Desalination and Water Purification Research Program. This funding opportunity is seeking innovative and cost-effective new water treatment technologies. This unique, two-phase funding opportunity will have selected applicants pitch their new technology to technical experts this fall.

"There is a need to reduce the cost, energy requirements and environmental impacts in treating unusable water," said Program Administrator Yuliana Porras-Mendoza. "This innovative program allows technical experts to help select the strongest applicants."

Reclamation is looking for new technologies or processes to:

• Treat brackish groundwater in a less energy-intensive way than currently available.
• Reduce cost, energy, and/or environmental impacts of reverse osmosis/nanofiltration concentrate.
• Improve the efficiency of the water treatment process–either by improvements to pre-treatment, post-treatment, monitoring, sensors, or other innovative process or technology.
• Reduce costs, energy usage, and/or environmental impacts of seawater desalination, including intakes and/or outfalls.
• Reduce costs, energy requirements, and/or environmental impacts of treating impaired and unusable water to standards necessary for an identified beneficial use.

The funding opportunity is available at www.grants.gov by searching for funding opportunity number BOR-DO-20-F014. Applications are due by June 17, 2020, at 4:00 p.m. MDT. If your application is selected, you will be invited to participate in the "pitch" event on September 24 - 25, 2020.

Eligible applicants include individuals/entrepreneurs, institutions of higher education, profit organizations, state and local governmental entities, non-profit organizations, federally funded research and development centers, and tribal governments and organizations. No cost-share is required, but it is highly encouraged.

Learn more about Reclamation's Desalination and Water Purification Research Program at https://www.usbr.gov/research/dwpr.

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Relevant Link:

Funding Opportunity on Grants.gov