Project Grant CLSS00000063767

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $914,401 Project Grant under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to the Western States Water Council (WSWC), a non-profit organization focused on water resource management in the western United States. The grant supports the development of a web-based water conservation tool that will integrate WSWC's WESTDAAT system with the OPENET platform. This tool will streamline applications for voluntary, compensated water conservation measures across...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $575,089.48 Cooperative Agreement under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) to Natural Ocean Well CO. on March 19, 2024. The project proposes to install and evaluate a submerged water filtration system in the Las Virgenes Reservoir. Submerged water filtration is an unconventional approach that can reduce energy requirements by leveraging natural hydrostatic pressure, while also protecting the system from atmospheric climate...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research and development of a digital platform utilizing distributed ledger technology to improve water rights management and enable water markets in the Western United States. Awarded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, the grant recipient Wetx Inc. will develop a unique combination of distributed ledger tokenization and decentralized distributed file storage to digitally represent water rights and...

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 Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $485,800 Project Grant to the Western Municipal Water District of Riverside County (WMWD) under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to implement the GIS Data Acquisition and Leak Mapping Analysis for Improved Water Management Project. This project will field-verify and collect GPS data to correct spatial inaccuracies in WMWD's existing GIS database, improve data workflow, enhance asset management capabilities, and provide data to support...

The Bureau of Reclamation, through the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504), awarded a $2,258,444 Project Grant to the Rancho California Water District in California. The grant will fund the development of a feasibility study to optimize the district's existing water treatment, storage, and distribution infrastructure. Key objectives include identifying opportunities to maximize the use of recycled water, support economic development through a sustainable water...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $226,022.50 Project Grant under the Water Conservation Field Services Program (CFDA #15.530) to the Corbett Water District in Corbett, OR. The purpose of this 2-year grant, with a period of performance from September 2024 to September 2026, is to conduct a system optimization review (SOR) of the district's water distribution system. The SOR will focus on identifying opportunities to reduce water loss from leaks, optimize...

The federal Project Grant award of $999,091 from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will support research to quantify field to basin-scale water needs and evaluate the conserved consumptive water use from previous water conservation investments in the Southwest and Southern Plains regions. The goal is to understand realistic water savings from conservation investments in these areas facing increasing droughts and...

The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District received a $41,401,172 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504). The funding will support the construction of an Advanced Water Purification Facility (AWPF) to treat tertiary effluent for indirect potable reuse, as well as pipelines to convey source water, purified water, and reverse osmosis concentrate. This project, known as the...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $167,933 Project Grant under its Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to the California State University Fresno Foundation. The grant will fund the development of a leak detection framework for the City of Lakewood, California's water distribution system. The project will determine optimal sensor placement and apply deep learning methodology to improve the detection of water leaks, with the goal of reducing water losses by an estimated 34.7% and...