Applications have been called for the third round of the Federal Government’s stormwater harvesting and reuse grants under the National Urban Water and Desalination Plan.

 

The program will fund projects that capture, treat and use stormwater to ease the pressure on drinking water supplies and deliver improved water quality to urban waterways.

 

The funding round has the aims of:

 

  • improving the security of water supplies in Australia, without adding to greenhouse gas emissions
  • reducing the demand for potable water supplies
  • helping to reduce the impact of urban runoff on the ecological condition of receiving waters by protecting or improving water quality and the hydrological regime (e.g. protecting low flows and reducing the impact of high flows).

 

Project funding is capped at 50 per cent of eligible capital costs, with a minimum project size of $2 million. The maximum funding available from the Australian Government for a single project is $20 million.  Funded projects must be completed by 30 June 2016.

 

More information is here