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STORE Drought Resilience and Funding
Because of that, you are more vulnerable to cascading disasters such as wildfires and floods/
What can your water and wastewater utilities do, especially if you are small or overburdened? How can you access the historically high levels of federal funding to implement mitigation projects? Now is the time to prepare, before the next drought arrives.
U.S. EPA is coordinating with federal and Utah state partners to offer a one-stop shop to help small communities, and water and wastewater utilities identify possible mitigation projects for drought and cascading disasters. We will provide FREE individualized technical assistance to make it easy to understand the types of mitigation funds available and who to contact when you want to get started.
Deeper wells, alternative water sources, drought response plans, aquifer storage and recovery, groundwater replenishment, green infrastructure, infiltration wells, stormwater capture, water reuse, floodplain and stream restoration, leak detection projects, fire-hardening of critical assets, etc. Nature-based solutions are especially encouraged.
- Do you need help to identify possible mitigation projects to address drought and cascading disasters?
- Do you need funding to implement these projects?
Drinking water, wastewater and stormwater utility staff and community leaders involved in risk and finance.
Email your utility name, city, state and phone number to: DroughtQuestions@epa.gov and they will contact you. We encourage small and overburdened utilities to reach out.
- EPA’s Drought Response and Recovery Guide
- EPA’s Federal Funding for Utilities – Water/Wastewater – in National Disasters (Fed FUNDS)
- EPA Water Technical Assistance
- EPA’s Addressing and Mitigating Drought with Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
- EPA’s Integrating Water Reuse into the Clean Water State Revolving Fund
- USDA Rural Development Water Grants/Loans
- USDA Emergency Community Water Assistance Grant Program
- Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) WaterSMART Grants
- State of Utah Water Funding
- Utah DEQ Drought Guidance for Public Water Systems
- Southern Utah Reuse ARPA Grant Program
- USBR Water Reuse and Drought Resilience Grants in Utah
- Utah Division of Water Resources - Cloud Seeding
- ^ What you should know: The above message was written by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We fully endorse their recommendations and encourage you to review their important insights.