WaterSMART Enhancing Water Resources Projects
- Award ceiling
- $50,000 – $3,000,000
- Closes
- Sep 8, 2027
- Last verified
- 2026-10-16
Awards $50,000 – $3,000,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Sep 8, 2027.
In one sentence
WaterSMART Enhancing Water Resources Projects awards $50,000 – $3,000,000 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, PR, SD, TX, UT, VI, WA, WY, closing Sep…
- Program pool (total)
- $60,000,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $3,000,000
- Award floor
- $50,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Sep 8, 2027
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- May 14, 2026
- Status
- Open
- 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
- water conservation and efficiency projects · water infrastructure improvements · river and watershed restoration
- 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.
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitApplicants eligible to receive an award under this funding opportunity are described below.Category A Applicants States, Tribes, irrigation districts, and water districts;State, regional, or local authorities, the members of which…
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
What can the money be used for?
3 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
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 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- Yes
Who has received this funding?
807 awardsAwards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.
807 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.
| Recipient | State | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRANQUILITY IRRIGATION DISTRICT | Not stated | $0 | 2018 |
| TRANSALTA CENTRALIA GENERATION LLC | Not stated | $0 | 2022 |
| TULARE IRRIGATION COMPANY, THE | Not stated | $0 | 2020 |
| UINTAH WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT | Not stated | $0 | 2021 |
| YUMA COUNTY WATER USERS ASSOCIATION | Not stated | $0 | 2022 |
| GREENFIELDS IRRIGATION DISTRICT | Not stated | -$48 | 2012 |
| MISSION SPRINGS WATER DISTRICT | Not stated | -$300,000 | 2020 |
Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.
What comparable notices state
69 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Environment & Water, 69 of 189 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$200,000
- Median$1,000,000
- 75th percentile$4,000,000
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.
Who has won this programme before?
807 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.
807 federal awards on file under assistance listing 15.507, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.
- $5,000,000THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIACA · FY2023
- $5,000,000EL PASO WATER UTILITIES PUBLIC SERVICE BOARDTX · FY2023
- $5,000,000LUGERT-ALTUS IRRIGATION DISTOK · FY2024
- $5,000,000PALMDALE WATER DISTRICTCA · FY2023
- $5,000,000JURUPA COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICTCA · FY2025
Common questions
8 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- $50,000 – $3,000,000 per recipient.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $60,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- When is the application deadline?
- Sep 8, 2027.
- 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?
- water conservation and efficiency projects, water infrastructure improvements, river and watershed restoration, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- Yes. This programme requires matching funds.
- Has this programme funded anyone before?
- 807 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by Bureau of Reclamation. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.
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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.