WRRC Grants & Internships

WRRA 104 Grants

Established by the U.S. Congress with passage of the Water Resources Research Act in 1964, the water resources research institute program provides support for one institute at the land grant university in each state, plus 3 territories and the District of Columbia. Congress reauthorized the Act in 1984 with amendments and, most recently, in 2006, in PL 109-471. The Water Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona is the designated Water Resources Research Institute for the State of Arizona.

The 2006 law listed the following as national water research priorities: 

1. Aspects of the hydrologic cycle;
2. Supply and demand for water;
3. Demineralization of saline and other impaired waters;
4. Conservation and best use of available supplies of water and methods of increasing such supplies;
5. Water reuse;
6. Depletion, contamination, and degradation of groundwater supplies;
7. Improvements in the productivity of water when used for agricultural, municipal, and commercial purposes;
8. The economic, legal, engineering, social, recreational, biological, geographic, ecological, and other aspects of water quality and quantity problems;
9. Scientific information dissemination activities, including identifying, assembling, and interpreting the results of scientific and engineering research on water resources problems; and
10. Providing means for improved communication of research results, having due regard for the varying conditions and needs for the respective States and regions.