Assistance program
Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes
$103.2 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Us Geological Survey, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Formula Grants;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 15.805
- What it does
- To provide financial support to Water Resources Research Institutes located at designated State universities in each of the 50 States, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia for research, information transfer and student training on one or more aspects of priority water problems.
- Who benefits
- Researchers at qualified universities and colleges in the State through the designated Institute for the State.
- Who applies
- One University Water Research Institute is authorized in each State and other jurisdictions specified in Section 104. Other colleges and universities within a State are encouraged to participate in the program in cooperation with the designated Institute.
- Authorized by
- 2021 amendments were codified here. 42 U.S. Code § 10303 - Water resources research and technology institutes
- Public Law 117-58
- Program site
- http://water.usgs.gov/wrri/ ↗
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.
Top recipients
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
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments