FY20 WIIN Act Drinking Water Grants Infographic

Information last updated: October 2021

Water Infrastructure
Improvements for the
Nation (WIIN)
Act Grants

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The WIIN Act addresses, supports,
and improves America's drinking
water infrastructure. The three grants
were established to promote public
and environmental health by providing
investment in the nation's small and
disadvantaged communities, their
public water systems, and schools and
child care facilities to address lead
exposure in drinking water, other
contaminants, and compliance issues.

Lead Testing in
School and Child Care
Program Drinking
Water

Small, Underserved,
and Disadvantaged
Communities (SUDC)

Reducing Lead in
Drinking Water

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WIIN
Grant

Public water
systems; tribes;
nonprofit
organizations;
municipalities;
and states,
interstate, or
intermunicipal
agencies

States,

territories, and
tribes

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States,

territories, and
tribes

Deadline for
participating states
to submit their final
application was
June 1, 2020.
Awardees were
selected on
October 23, 2020

Applications
opened on
www.Grants.gov in
September 2021.
The next deadline is
June 30, 2022

State allotments
were announced
for states,
territories, and
tribes on
March 15, 2021

Highlights

Reduce lead exposure in
drinking water through
lead service line
replacement and
treatment improvement
projects for public water
systems and remediation
projects in schools and
child care facilities

Assist small, underserved
and disadvantaged
communities comply with
the Safe Drinking Water
Act through infrastructure
projects; technical,
managerial, and financial
capacity building activities;
and contaminant- specific
activities

Assist in implementing
voluntary programs in
schools and child care
facilities to establish best
practices, reduce lead
contamination, and
establish trust between
schools/child care facilities
and their communities to
test for lead in drinking
water

*FY22 funding amounts are
estimates based on a presidential
budget and do not necessarily
reflect final appropriations.

In 2020, 947 schools and
1,758 child care facilities
were tested for lead in
drinking water using WIIN
grant funding

Grants have been awarded to 74
small and disadvantaged
communities in 39 states,
territories, and tribal communities
in FY2018 and FY2019

Ten projects have been awarded to
reduce lead exposure in drinking
water by replacing thousands of lead
service lines and removing potential
sources of lead in hundreds of
schools and child care facilities
across the United States

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