Cooperative Agreement AID367A1100002

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $421,000 Project Grant to The Water Council, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The grant, which runs from September 3, 2024 to February 3, 2026, is for the "Water Sector Mentoring and Employment for High School Students and Clubs (WSMAE)" program. This program aims to improve literacy and provide career and technical education opportunities in the water sector for high...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $3,650,000 Project Grant under the Reducing Lead in Drinking Water (SDWA 1459B) program (CFDA 66.443) to the Rural Community Assistance Partnership, Inc. (RCAP). This 4-year grant will fund activities to reduce lead exposure in schools and childcare facilities across 9 states by installing at least 150 water bottle filling stations with lead-removing filters and replacing drinking water fixtures containing lead. The project will benefit over...

This Project Grant award, provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the P3 Award: National Student Design Competition for Sustainability (CFDA 66.516) program, aims to develop an affordable and easy-to-use sensor for highly selective and sensitive detection of lead in tap water. The total funding amount is $100,000, with an award date of September 1, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of April 23, 2025. The key objectives of this project are to: 1) optimize the selectivity...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 awarded the District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment a $2.7 million Project Grant under the Reducing Lead in Drinking Water program (CFDA 66.443) to develop and implement improvement investments that will reduce lead exposure in drinking water. Specifically, the Department will replace 780 faucets in 730 schools and childcare facilities across the District with assistance from subrecipients the District of Columbia Public Charter...

The American Water Works Association (Awwa) received a $291,122 Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water through the Innovative Water Infrastructure Workforce Development Program (SDWA 1459E) to implement a water leadership training program. The grant period is from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2024. Under the award, Awwa will train 50 current water utility employees from around the country to prepare them for leadership roles through an experiential water...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Voluntary School and Child Care Lead Testing and Reduction Grant Program (CFDA 66.444) provides $374,000.00 to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (Maine DHHS) to implement a program of voluntary testing for lead in drinking water at local schools and child care centers in Maine. The key activities funded through this grant include: (1) providing reimbursement to schools for the purchase of...

This $423,000 Environmental Protection Agency project grant funds the Indiana Finance Authority's voluntary lead testing program in approximately 200 schools and child care facilities across Indiana through December 2023. As the designated state agency, the Authority will implement the Voluntary School and Child Care Lead Testing and Reduction Grant Program by testing drinking water samples for lead at local educational agencies and child care centers through their established Lead Sampling...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water awarded a $15,400,000 Project Grant under the Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Training Grants - Section 1442 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (CFDA 66.424) program to Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated. Through this funding, the organization will provide technical, managerial, and financial capacity-building training and technical assistance to operators, board members, and managers of tribal and...

This $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program) supports the VERSAWATER project led by Cornell University. The project aims to address access to safe drinking water for the 140,000 small public water systems across the U.S. through the development and implementation of prefabricated, electricity-free water treatment plants designed to reliably treat turbid waters at a lower cost using gravity...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $477,883 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. The goal of this CAREER award is to test the hypothesis that local water storage can be designed to preserve or improve water quality following contamination events while achieving resiliency through interruptions to water supplies. The key objectives are to: 1) quantify the effects of contamination on the accumulation,...