Application Timeline:
Monday,
June 16, 2025 – The application portal opens for 42 days to receive
applications.
Tuesday,
July 1, 2025 – Informational Webinar with Q&A.
Monday,
July 28, 2025 – Applications must be submitted online at
by 5:00 pm MDT.
Friday,
August 29, 2025 – Recipients of projects selected for funding will be notified.
Monday,
September 15, 2025 – Projects begin.
The
NM WRRI Agricultural Water Resilience Program (AgWRP) implements in part Action
A2, New Mexico 50-Year Water Action Plan to incentivize agricultural water
conservation. The goal is to maintain the resilience of New Mexico agriculture
and provide food security in a future with less available water, as stated in
HB2.5 317, the enabling legislation for AgWRP. To achieve this goal, NM WRRI
will implement projects that improve farmers’ and ranchers’ ability to manage,
conserve, and efficiently apply limited water resources for agricultural
production.
This funding opportunity is posted on the New Mexico Water
Resources Research Institute website at https://nmwrri.nmsu.edu/nmwrri-agwrp/nmwrri-agwrp.html.
Project
applications should include new approaches, technological tools, or
infrastructural improvements related to agricultural water conservation.
Activities should improve infrastructure reliability, operational flexibility,
use-efficiency, conservation, or resilience of water resources without
increasing depletions. Eligible applicants are encouraged to propose innovative
projects that fit the purpose of the program and address regional agricultural
needs related to water. Projects must support New Mexico food security and the
long-term continuation of New Mexico agricultural production. Projects must
address one or more of the following regionally appropriate water resilience
objectives:
- Increase water efficiency to optimize the use of diminished water supplies
- Improve reliability of water supply or infrastructure
- Conserve water to decrease basin depletions and support long-term water sustainability
- Improve groundwater sustainability
- Implement new approaches and technologies to improve irrigation and stock water timing and management
- Support voluntary adoption of drought-tolerant, lower water-use crops
- Create operational flexibilities to adapt to changing climate and drought
Sarah
Wentzel-Fisher
Land
and Agriculture Policy Officer
(505)
280-9879
