Deadline: December 1, 2025
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: Yes
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits
Description: This program assists individuals with low to moderate incomes in financing certain costs associated with household water wells and septic systems. It provides funding for the construction, repair, or replacement of these systems to ensure access to safe and reliable water sources. The initiative aims to improve public health and environmental quality by supporting sustainable water infrastructure in underserved communities.

Deadline: December 31, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $1,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: This program provides funding to support the development and implementation of sustainable water management practices in rural communities. It focuses on reducing or eliminating pollution of water resources and improving planning and management of water systems. The initiative aims to enhance the quality and availability of water resources through community-driven solutions.

Deadline: January 6, 2026
Award Amount: Up to $300,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Nonprofits, Higher Education, and Water
Description: The Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 created a matching grant program to stimulate, encourage, and assist states with the acquisition, development, and expansion of quality outdoor recreation areas and facilities. LWCF is a reimbursement grant program funded by revenues generated from outer continental shelf oil and gas drilling.

Deadline: April 17, 2026
Award Amount: Up to $30,000,000
Match: Yes
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments
Description: The Bureau of Reclamation administers the Small Surface and Groundwater Storage Program to support the development of small water storage projects that enhance long-term water availability in the 17 western states, Alaska, and Hawaii. Funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (2021), the program provides up to a 25% federal cost-share for the planning, design, or construction of surface and groundwater storage projects with capacities between 200 and 30,000 acre-feet. The program aims to help communities stretch limited water supplies, reduce conflicts, and improve water reliability by supporting projects that increase storage, improve water management flexibility, and deliver multiple benefits such as groundwater recharge, water quality improvements, and ecosystem health.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $1,000,000
Match: Not required, but encouraged.
Eligible Entities: City, Township, County or Tribal Governments with populations below 40,000 and Nonprofits
Description: This program helps eligible communities prepare, or recover from, an emergency that threatens the availability of safe, reliable drinking water. Applicants must show that a major decline in quantity or quality of water occurred within two years of the date of the application. Grants are also awarded when a significant decline in quality and quantity of water is imminent. A federal disaster declaration is not required in order to qualify.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: Those applying must serve an area with a population of 10,000 or less. This program provides technical assistance to rural water systems that are experiencing day-to-day operational, financial or managerial issues. Rural water system officials may request assistance from the National Rural Water Association State Association or the local Rural Utilities Service office. Rural Utilities Service staff may also request assistance on behalf of the system.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Dependent upon project.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits, Community Water Systems
Description: With the increase in demand and federal requirements for the DWSRF, The State of New Mexico will continue to choose the projects to fulfill the federal equivalency requirements. Additionally, the schedule by which the priority lists will be published will remain semi‐annual. Lists are produced in December and May with supplemental lists published in September and February if project interest and urgency exist. Criteria for project interest and urgency are included in this IUP to clarify when the supplemental lists will be produced. Project priority ranking criteria for emerging contaminants were updated to reflect increased value on providing water service to underserved communities or where wells are contaminated by emerging contaminants.