Project Grant SNEAAC17GR1037

The Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to support operations from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. Under the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs' Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs program (CFDA 19.600), which provides assistance to meet foreign policy goals in the region as outlined in the Bureau's strategic plan, MEDRC will utilize the funding to support its general operations....

The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (CFDA 19.600) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the Middle East Desalination Research Center on March 20, 2024 to support the center's operations. This grant funding will enable the center to continue its work on desalination research and technologies that support U.S. foreign policy objectives in the Near East region. The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs' grant program focuses on a variety of initiatives in the region, including...

The Bureau of Reclamation, through its Desalination and Water Purification Research (DWPR) program (CFDA 15.506), awarded a $500,972 cooperative agreement to Temple University on Sep 13, 2023. The goal of this 2-year effort is to develop an energy-neutral desalination system by integrating electroactive forward osmosis (EFO) and microbial desalination cells (MDCs). The EFO process will recover clean water from wastewater, producing concentrated wastewater and diluted seawater. The concentrated...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $351,572.23 Cooperative Agreement to William Marsh Rice University under the Water Desalination Research and Development program (CFDA 15.506). The goal of this 21-month project, with a completion date of September 30, 2025, is to develop ion exchange membranes with tunable ion permeability and permselectivity to enhance water recovery while ensuring product water quality in electrodialysis desalination processes. This...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $235,400 Cooperative Agreement under the Water Desalination Research and Development program (CFDA 15.506) to Mickley & Associates LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to identify and gather detailed information on 50-70 U.S. municipal desalination facilities built since 2017 or planned through 2025. The project will document the facilities' concentrate disposal practices, treatment processes, source water,...

This $1,257,873 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation will fund research at the Colorado School of Mines to improve reverse osmosis desalination technology for remote communities. Under the Water Desalination Research and Development program (CFDA 15.506), the School of Mines will augment a 20 gallon per minute, 8-element reverse osmosis unit from DuPont Water Solutions with smart scaling precursor detection and resource recovery from concentrate to...

The Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs awarded a $643,838 project grant to Ben Gurion University of the Negev to assess the potential use of saline groundwater from the Mediterranean coastal aquifer as feed for desalination in Gaza Strip and Israel. With a completion date of April 4, 2025, this award supports the goals of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Federal Grant Program (CFDA 19.600) to advance foreign assistance objectives in the region as outlined in the annual...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation, under its Desalination and Water Purification Research (DWPR) program (CFDA 15.506), awarded a $610,056 Cooperative Agreement to Pacifica Water Solutions LLC on Sep 21, 2023. The project aims to conduct extended field testing of innovative electrically conducting desalination membranes against commercial membranes over two consecutive 3-month trials. The testing will demonstrate the performance of this technology in two applications:...

The Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs awarded a $600,609 Project Grant to the Arava Institute For Environmental Studies under the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs federal grant program (CFDA 19.600). The three-year award, issued on October 1, 2023 and concluding on October 1, 2026, will support the Comparison and Upscaling of Off-Grid Solar Desalination Systems (SDS) for Treating Saline Groundwater for Irrigation After Pre-Treatment in Israel. Specifically, the Arava Institute For...

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...