Water Infrastructure
Water is essential. We rely on it from the moment we wake up in the morning and make a cup of coffee until we brush our teeth at night. While most water infrastructure is hidden from sight, it is foundational to our daily lives. Our water infrastructure is aging and in need of repair to withstand the challenges of the 21st century. We must maintain water infrastructure to deliver clean drinking water and safely carry away and treat wastewater.
EPA helps renew water infrastructure across the country by identifying needs, funding infrastructure projects through multiple programs, and providing technical assistance to connect communities and tribes to federal funding. This webpage highlights the Agency's suite of funding and technical assistance resources that can help address water infrastructure challenges in urban, suburban, tribal, and rural communities across the nation.
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State Revolving Funds
These federal-state partnership programs provide low-cost financing for a range of water quality infrastructure projects from the Clean Water SRF and drinking water utility capital improvements from the Drinking Water SRF. The DWSRF also funds water system capacity development, operator certification, source water protection, and small system assistance.
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Wastewater Resource Hub
Search the Wastewater Technology Clearinghouse for innovative, alternative, and reuse wastewater technologies; Water Finance Clearinghouse for wastewater and stormwater infrastructure resources; and NPDES Permit Writers' Clearinghouse for permit language, templates, and permit writers' resources. Explore a host of other wastewater tools.
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WIFIA Program
Public and private borrowers can apply for supplemental, flexible, low-cost credit assistance for many types of wastewater, drinking water, and stormwater infrastructure projects. Communities can combine these long-term loans with other funds to lower costs with less impact on rate payers.
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Technical Assistance
Utilities, municipalities, and Tribes can receive technical assistance to maintain regulatory compliance, identify infrastructure solutions, and build utility technical, managerial, and financial capabilities.
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Grant Programs
Grants may be available to support drinking water infrastructure, manage pollution from nonpoint sources, restore national estuaries, and construct stormwater infrastructure projects including combined and sanitary sewer overflows.
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Tribes & Alaska Native Villages
Several programs assist Tribes and Alaska Native Villages to construct new or improved wastewater and drinking water systems and fund training and technical assistance in system operations and maintenance.