Cooperative Agreement AID687A1700002

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Regional Wetland Program Development Grants (CFDA 66.461) provides $401,624 in funding to the Aquatic Science Center in California. The agreement supports the development of a formal statewide training and outreach program for the California Wetland and Riparian Area Monitoring Plan (WRAMP). This includes creating training materials and tools to help state, tribal, and local government...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Desalination and Water Purification Research (DWPR) program (CFDA 15.506) is funding the development of a novel batch-operated reverse osmosis desalination process called "batch counterflow reverse osmosis." The $490,305.48 award to Purdue University aims to create the first experimental lab-scale demonstration of this technology and develop a fundamental understanding of its...

The City of Palo Alto was awarded a $58,196,269 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504). The purpose of the award is to construct an Advanced Water Purification System (AWPS) at the city's Regional Water Quality Control Plant. The AWPS will use membrane filtration and reverse osmosis to reduce total dissolved solids in the recycled water from 770-1,100 mg/L to 400-500...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,003,256.99 Cooperative Agreement to Applied Research Team Inc. on January 4, 2024 under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078). This project aims to demonstrate how the combination of weather radar data and ground-based monitoring can effectively measure snow water equivalent (SWE) at high resolution. The project will focus on multiple headwater watersheds in the Upper Colorado River Basin and the Rio Grande River Basin, utilizing both...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,524,996 Cooperative Agreement under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504) to the Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) to assess the feasibility of constructing a new Advanced Water Purification Facility (AWPF) in San Jose, California. The proposed AWPF would support Valley Water's goal of meeting at least 10% of the county's total water demand with drought-resilient recycled...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) provides $415,091.10 to the Orange County Water District (OCWD) to evaluate the feasibility of removing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from reverse osmosis concentrate. The project will assess the effectiveness of treating reverse osmosis concentrate using adsorbent media like granular activated carbon and ion...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $600,493.97 Cooperative Agreement to Pure Blue TECH Inc., doing business as Pure Blue, under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560). The funding supports the manufacturing and field piloting of novel anti-fouling nanopatterned ultrasonic reverse osmosis (RO) membrane elements for efficient, high-recovery desalination of brackish water and purification of surface water. The key innovation is the...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $467,200.43 Cooperative Agreement under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) to Pani Clean Inc., a woman-owned small business, to pilot-test a photovoltaic-powered electrochemical denitrification system. The project aims to demonstrate a modular, off-grid solar-powered unit that can treat nitrate-contaminated water sources, such as effluents from wastewater plants and public water supply wells, to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Reclamation, under the Water Desalination Research and Development program (CFDA 15.506), provides $713,865.71 to the Regents of the University of Colorado for a research and development project to improve reverse osmosis desalination technology. The key objectives are to integrate a smart scaling precursor detection system with a reverse osmosis demonstration unit to minimize operational issues, and to test a novel concentrate recovery...

The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium was awarded a $581,250 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service on September 21, 2022 to provide combination water and waste disposal services to Alaskan villages through September 21, 2023. The award was made under the Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities program (CFDA 10.760), which provides loan and grant funding for water and waste projects serving financially needy rural communities. The...