WASHINGTON -- The Bureau of Reclamation has published the Desalination and Water Purification Research Program Pitch to Pilot funding opportunity. This funding opportunity is open until June 03, 2021 and is available on grants.gov by searching for opportunity number R21AS00424.
Pilot-scale technologies or processes that incorporate or are innovative and disruptive technologies involving flow rates above one gallon per minute and that need to be tested using natural water sources rather than synthetic or laboratory-made feed water are eligible. The objectives of this funding opportunity are to develop innovative and disruptive new technologies or processes to reduce the costs, energy requirements, and/or environmental impacts of treating impaired and unusable water to standards necessary for an identified beneficial use, improve efficiency of water treatment processes—either by improvements to pre-treatment, post-treatment, monitoring, sensors, or other innovative process/technology, increase effectiveness of reverse osmosis/nanofiltration concentrate management by reducing cost, energy, and/or environmental impacts, treat brackish groundwater in a less energy-intensive way than current processes and technologies, address costs, energy usage, and/or environmental impacts of seawater desalination, including intakes and/or outfalls.
Desalination and Water Purification Research Program (DWPR) works with Reclamation researchers and partners to develop innovative, cost-effective, and technologically efficient ways to desalinate and treat water. DWPR funding plays a critical role in iterating an idea from the lab to a real-world demonstration, yielding products that serve the water treatment community and attract commercialization interest.
To learn more, visit https://www.usbr.gov/research/dwpr.
