Grants Awarded to 30 Desalination Research Projects

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has announced that 30 projects will receive a total of $5.1 million from the Desalination and Water Purification Research Program to develop improved and inexpensive ways to desalinate and treat brackish water. “We are awarding grants to a diverse group of projects to reduce the cost, energy consumption and environmental impacts of treating impaired or otherwise unusable water for local communities across the country,” says Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman. “This funding is a direct result of the Trump administration’s commitment to increase water supply and delivery through improved technology.” Twenty-five awards are for laboratory-scale projects,