WaterSMART: Desalination Construction Projects
Awards $1,000 – $120,000,000 per recipient for departments of a state, irrigation districts, municipalities, other legal entity, public agencies organized pursuant to a state law, states, subdivisions of a state, tribes, wastewater districts, water districts, closing Aug 26, 2027.
In one sentence
WaterSMART: Desalination Construction Projects awards $1,000 – $120,000,000 per recipient, open to departments of a state, irrigation districts, municipalities, other legal entity, public agencies organized pursuant to a state law, states, subdivisions of a state, tribes, wastewater districts,…
- Program pool (total)
- $120,000,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $120,000,000Award floor is $1,000 and award ceiling is $120,000,000; total estimated funding is $120,000,000 with an expected 10 awards.
- Award floor
- $1,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Aug 26, 2027
- Deadline type
- fixed
- Opens
- May 14, 2026
- Status
- Open
- Eligible entities
- Departments of a State · Irrigation districts · Municipalities · Other Legal Entity · Public agencies organized pursuant to a State law · States · Subdivisions of a State · Tribes · Wastewater districts · Water districts
- Geography
- Arizona · California · Colorado · Idaho · Kansas · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Mexico · North Dakota · Oklahoma · Oregon · South Dakota · Texas · Utah · Washington · Wyoming
- Matching funds
- Yes
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- 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.
Source wording: “Award floor is $1,000 and award ceiling is $120,000,000; total estimated funding is $120,000,000 with an expected 10 awards.”
Who can apply?
Departments of a State, Irrigation districts, Municipalities, Other Legal Entity, Public agencies organized pursuant to a State law, States, Subdivisions of a State, Tribes, Wastewater districts, Water districts
Source field: entity typesArizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
Source field: statesConstruction of facilities to desalinate seawater or brackish surface water or groundwater, Design, Planning
Source field: use of fundsNot stated
Source field: applicant size limitFederal governmental entities, foreign entities, individuals, and institutes of higher education are ineligible. All applicants must be located in one of the specified states.
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
Response date as posted on grants.gov
What can the money be used for?
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?
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- YesCost sharing is required as indicated in labelled fields.
Who has received this funding?
No award records yet
We hold no prior awards for this programme. That is a gap in what we have connected, not a finding that the programme has never funded anyone — check the official page, which may list past recipients.
Common questions
Every answer below is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- $1,000 – $120,000,000 per recipient. The source states: “Award floor is $1,000 and award ceiling is $120,000,000; total estimated funding is $120,000,000 with an expected 10 awards.”.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $120,000,000 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?
- Aug 26, 2027. Response date as posted on grants.gov
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Departments of a State, Irrigation districts, Municipalities, Other Legal Entity, Public agencies organized pursuant to a State law, States, Subdivisions of a State, Tribes, Wastewater districts, Water districts.
- Which locations are eligible?
- Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming.
- What can the funding be used for?
- Planning, Design, Construction of facilities to desalinate seawater or brackish surface water or groundwater, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- Yes. This programme requires matching funds. Cost sharing is required as indicated in labelled fields.
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.