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WIIN Grant Opportunity: Reducing Lead in Drinking Water

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EPA announced the availability of $35 million in Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Grants to assist disadvantaged communities and schools with removing sources of lead in drinking water. The grant program is designed to facilitate reducing lead in drinking water in disadvantaged communities through infrastructure and/or treatment improvements or facility remediation in schools and child care facilities.

Eligible applicants under this competition include the following. Individuals and for-profit organizations are not eligible to apply:

  • Community water systems, for example, a town’s drinking water system.
  • Water systems located in an area governed by an Indian Tribe.
  • Non-transient non-community water systems, for example schools, factories, office buildings, and hospitals that have their own water systems.
  • Qualified nonprofit organizations servicing a public water system.
  • Municipalities.
  • State, interstate, or intermunicipal agencies, such as a department of environmental protection, an interstate environmental commission, or a joint municipal pollution control board.

The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the FY24 grant competition is available here: Reducing Lead FY2024 Notice of Funding Opportunity (pdf), or view the grant opportunity.  The closing date for applications is December 30th, 2024.