Department of the Interior — Bureau of Reclamation · Water & Wastewater · Disaster Resilience
Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART Grants
Funds water-efficiency, drought-resilience, and water-marketing projects in the 17 Western states. Cities apply for Water and Energy Efficiency Grants, Drought Response Program, or Small-Scale Water Efficiency Grants.
Whether your city can win this comes down to hard rules — population, designation, match capacity. Run your city and our AI checks it against the rules below in about 8 minutes.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $100K – $5M
- Non-federal match
- 50% (verify basis)
- Eligible entity
- U.S. cities & local governments
- Application window
- Annual NOFOs; multiple sub-programs per cycle.
- Typical prep time
- 8–16 weeks
- Statutory authority
- SECURE Water Act of 2009 (42 U.S.C. §10361 et seq.)
Verify on the Department of the Interior — Bureau of Reclamation page →
Who is eligible for Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART Grants?
These are the hard rules we check against. If one fails, the program is ineligible — the AI never overrides a rule.
- Cities are eligible applicants.
Eligibility limited to 17 Western states (AZ, CA, CO, ID, KS, MT, NE, NV, NM, ND, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY). Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
Run a city dossier and our AI cross-checks ACS demographics, 5-year USAspending award history, FEMA disaster history, and CEJST/Justice40 + HUD designations against this program's rules. You get a clear eligibility, strategic, and competitive answer — with the city's own hard evidence ready to anchor the narrative — instead of a generic match badge. And if it's a no-go, you'll know before you spend the month.
The dossier isn't the AI's guesswork — eligibility is decided by the rules, and the numbers come straight from official sources. The answer your reviewer will check line by line.
No credit card. 30-day trial, 3 dossiers, 1 seat.
Related programs
- Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) (EPA)$500K – $100M
- Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) (EPA)$500K – $50M
- Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) Loans (EPA)$20M – $1B
- Lead Service Line Replacement (DWSRF Set-Aside) (EPA)$500K – $50M
- Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) (EPA)$1M – $500M
- Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grants (OSG) (EPA)$1M – $50M
Award ranges, match percentages, and windows are approximate.