Assistance program
Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities
$4.7 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Rural Utilities Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants;Direct Loans;Guaranteed/Insured Loans
- CFDA number
- 10.760
- What it does
- Provide loan and grant funds for water and waste projects serving the most financially needy communities. Financial assistance should result in reasonable user costs for rural residents, rural businesses, and other rural users.
- Who benefits
- Users of the applicant systems, which are previously described as public bodies, private nonprofit corporations, Indian tribes, and individuals.
- Who applies
- For Water & Waste Disposal loans and grants: Municipalities, counties, other political subdivisions of a State such as districts and authorities, associations, cooperatives, corporations operated on a not-for-profit basis, Indian tribes on Federal and State reservations and other Federally recognized Indian tribes. The applicant must: (1) be unable to finance the proposed project from its own resources or through commercial credit at reasonable rates and terms; and (2) have the legal authority necessary for constructing, operating, and maintaining the proposed facility or service, and for obtaining, giving security for, and repaying the proposed loan. Assistance is authorized for eligible applicants in rural areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. For Water & Waste Disposal loan guarantees: Federally regulated lending institution with the legal authority, financial strength and sufficient experience to operate a successful lending program. Other non-regulated lending institutions may also be approved by the Agency.
- Authorized by
- 7 U.S.C. § 1989
- 16 U.S.C. § 1005
- 7 U.S.C. § 1981
- 7 U.S.C. § 1926(a)
- 7 U.S.C. § 1932(a)
- 7 U.S.C. § 8107
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$41.1K
<1%
Grants
$4.3B
93%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
Administering agencies
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments