Water4All 2026 call: sustainable water management

Open UKRI funding opportunity · Grant. Closes 2027-04-06. Total fund £1.88 million. Opportunity page: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/water4all-2026-call-sustainable-water-management/

Submit a pre-proposal on the Water4All website.

Funding for UK based researchers to collaborate with international partners and submit joint application to the Water4All 2026 joint translational call: sustainable water management.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.

To be eligible, transnational research consortia must include teams from a minimum of three countries financially participating in the call.

The full economic cost (FEC) of the total requested budget from all UK partners on a project can be up to £312,500. UKRI will fund 80% of the FEC and fund your project for up to 36 months.

What we're looking for Refer to the Water4All website for full details on the scope of the call and the specific funding organisation eligibility rules for UKRI before applying.

Scope

The Water4All 2026 joint transnational call focuses on sustainable water management (excluding extreme events and circularity). It invites proposals that address critical challenges related to:

- integrated water resource management

- river basin management

- groundwater management

- water resilience

- data monitoring and use

- water-positive solutions

The call topics are overlapping and non-exclusive. Thus, proposals must address at least one of the following topics and may integrate multiple topics where relevant. It is not compulsory to address all subtopics within a topic in the proposals.

This call addresses four topics with the UK only funding projects within Topics 1, 2 and 3. Projects are welcome to address one or several of these topics:

Topic 1: Integrated monitoring and assessment for sustainable water management: This topic addresses the need for integrated monitoring, data (cross)analysis and sharing, and assessment…