Opportunity Information: Apply for R22AS00316
The Desalination and Water Purification Research Program Pitch to Pilot for Fiscal Year 2022 (Funding Opportunity Number R22AS00316) is a discretionary federal grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. It is offered as a cooperative agreement, which typically means awardees should expect substantial involvement from the federal agency during the project period (for example, coordination, technical input, or shared oversight) rather than a hands-off grant structure. The program sits in the Natural Resources funding activity category and is associated with CFDA numbers 15.506 and 15.560.
The core purpose of the NOFO is to move promising water treatment and desalination innovations closer to real-world deployment by supporting technologies and processes that can be demonstrated and advanced toward pilot-scale readiness. The emphasis is on "innovative and disruptive" approaches that materially improve the practicality of turning impaired, unusable, or difficult-to-treat water sources into water that meets the requirements for a clearly defined beneficial use (such as municipal supply, industrial use, agriculture, groundwater recharge, or environmental applications). Across all topics, the recurring evaluation lens is whether the proposed work reduces cost, reduces energy requirements, and/or reduces environmental impacts compared with existing solutions.
The opportunity highlights several priority areas. One major focus is improving the overall efficiency of water treatment trains, including advancements in pre-treatment and post-treatment steps as well as monitoring and operational tools like sensors and instrumentation. Another focus is concentrate management for reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF), a persistent cost and environmental challenge in membrane-based desalination and purification systems. Projects in this area are expected to improve the effectiveness of handling, minimizing, treating, or disposing of concentrates while lowering energy use, costs, and environmental footprint. The NOFO also calls for less energy-intensive methods for treating brackish groundwater, recognizing the importance of brackish sources for inland communities and the potential to reduce energy intensity relative to conventional desalination approaches.
In addition, the NOFO targets the broader cost, energy, and environmental impacts of seawater desalination, including components that can be overlooked in technology-only discussions, such as intake and outfall considerations. This signals interest not only in the core desalination process but also in solutions that reduce ecological disturbance, chemical use, brine impacts, and infrastructure burdens associated with seawater facilities. Finally, the opportunity explicitly encourages innovations related to contaminants of emerging concern, especially per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Projects may address better detection, characterization, monitoring, separation, or destruction of PFAS and similar contaminants, reflecting the need for both measurement and treatment strategies that are effective, scalable, and economically feasible.
Eligibility is broad and spans public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, individuals, tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments as listed in the notice), and nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education in those nonprofit categories). The description also references participation by entities such as federally funded research and development centers and commercial or industrial organizations, indicating the program is oriented toward applied R and D and pilot translation that can involve public-private collaboration. The award ceiling is listed as $200,000, suggesting projects are expected to be targeted, milestone-driven efforts aimed at demonstrating feasibility or advancing a technology toward pilot implementation rather than funding full-scale construction. The original application closing date was July 12, 2022, and the opportunity was created on May 26, 2022.Apply for R22AS00316
- The Bureau of Reclamation in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Desalination and Water Purification Research Program Pitch to Pilot for Fiscal Year 2022" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.506, 15.560.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2022-05-26.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2022-07-12. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $200,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Individuals, Others.
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