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WaterSMART Drought Response Program: Drought Resiliency Projects for Fiscal Year 2024

Award ceiling
$25,000 – $5,000,000
Closes
Nov 7, 2023
Last verified
2026-09-19

Awards $25,000 – $5,000,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Nov 7, 2023.

Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)AKASAZCACOGUHIIDKSMPMTNDNENMNVOKORPRSDTXUTVIWAWYEnvironment & Water

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WaterSMART Drought Response Program: Drought Resiliency Projects for Fiscal Year 2024 awards $25,000 – $5,000,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification) in AK, AS, AZ, CA, CO, GU, HI, ID, KS, MP, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR,…

Record fields
Program pool (total)
Not confirmed
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$5,000,000
Award floor
$25,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Nov 7, 2023
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Aug 7, 2023
Status
Closed
Eligible entities
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Geography
AK · AS · AZ · CA · CO · GU · HI · ID · KS · MP · MT · ND · NE · NM · NV · OK · OR · PR · SD · TX · UT · VI · WA · WY
Matching funds
Yes
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
Infrastructure improvements for water supply reliability · Groundwater recovery · Decision support tools, modeling, and measurement for water management · Domestic water supply projects
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
Not stated
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$5,000,000

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Source field: entity types
state
AK, AS, AZ, CA, CO, GU, HI, ID, KS, MP
+14more, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, PR, SD, TX, UT, VI, WA, WY
Source field: states
industry
Source field: industries
demographic
Tribes, disadvantaged communities
Source field: demographics
use
Decision support tools, modeling, and measurement for water management, Domestic water supply projects, Groundwater recovery, Infrastructure improvements for water supply reliability
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Drought Resiliency Projects: Tasks A-CCategory A: States, Tribes, irrigation districts, and water districts; state, regional, or local authorities whose members include one or more organizations with water or power delivery authority; and…

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Nov 7, 2023ClosedDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

4 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
Infrastructure improvements for water supply reliabilityGroundwater recoveryDecision support tools, modeling, and measurement for water managementDomestic water supply projects

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

1 field
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
Yes

What comparable notices state

82 records
Stated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Environment & Water, 82 of 207 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$300,000
  • Median$961,905
  • 75th percentile$3,000,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Common questions

6 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
$25,000 – $5,000,000 per recipient.
When is the application deadline?
Nov 7, 2023.
Who is eligible to apply?
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
Which locations are eligible?
AK, AS, AZ, CA, CO, GU, HI, ID, KS, MP, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, PR, SD, TX, UT, VI, WA, WY.
What can the funding be used for?
Infrastructure improvements for water supply reliability, Groundwater recovery, Decision support tools, modeling, and measurement for water management, Domestic water supply projects, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
Yes. This programme requires matching funds.

AI summary of the source text

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-19
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-19

The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.