Water Innovation Program

Overview of the Water Innovation Program program:

Water Innovation Program is a funding opportunity which supports projects that lead to safe, secure drinking water; healthy aquatic ecosystems; and reliable water supplies for a sustainable economy. The program will support innovations that will help create a cleantech industry in water treatment, enable continual improvement in water use, conservation, efficiency and productivity, and provide safe, secure and reliable water resources while maintaining healthy aquatic ecosystems. Project funding can be up to and typically does not exceed $2 million per project and the continuous intake programs normally support 25 – 50% of total project costs, with remaining funding from other project partners and other funding agencies (including cash and in-kind support).

Benefits of the Water Innovation Program program:

• Project funding can be up to and typically does not exceed $2 million per project

Eligibility criteria of the Water Innovation Program program:

• Funding is open to all categories of lead applicant including technology developers, industry, industrial associations, small and medium-sized enterprises, research and development (R&D) organizations, post-secondary institutions, municipalities, not-for-profit organizations, government research labs, individuals and others, who are advancing technology development within a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) range of 3-7.
• Applicants are not required to be based in Alberta, but must demonstrate a clear value proposition for the Province and be able to clearly demonstrate alignment to the program area priorities.