Innovative Conservation Program

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Metropolitan) and the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) invites proposals for the Innovative Conservation Program (ICP).

Objective
The ICP provides funding to promote new innovative devices, technologies and strategies that save water, energy and *embedded energy, reduce urban runoff, to help achieve regional water supply reliability within Metropolitan’s service area. Projects are selected on a competitive basis.

The Waterbroom was funded by a past MWD ICP Grant

Program budget is $250,000. Funding will be provided by Metropolitan and Reclamation. Additional grants may be available if funding is secured from other program partners regarding water and energy.

The number of projects funded will be based on the qualified applicant pool, merits of each proposal and program budget.

Who Can Apply?
Funding is available to public, private or non-profit organizations.

Application Process
Projects will be pre-screened by Metropolitan and Reclamation staff based on the pre-screening executive summary outlined in the Request For Proposal (RFP) prior to being submitted to independent review panel(s).

Independent review panel(s) will evaluate and rank proposals based on scoring criteria outlined in the RFP. Proposal ranking will reflect the panel’s collective scoring based on the criteria.

This program is currently not accepting applications. If you would like to be notified of future opportunities, please email Tim Schaadt. Click here to download an example of a previous RFP.

Mr. Timothy J. Schaadt
WRM Group, Regional Supply Unit
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
P.O. Box 54153
Los Angeles, California 90054-0153
Fax: (213) 217-7911
e-mail: tschaadt@mwdh2o.com