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Counting Every Drop Challenge: Enter now to Win your share of $300,000

Deadline: 24-Oct-2022

The Freelancer, in partnership with GEONOR, is running a contest with a total prize purse of $300,000 USD on behalf of Bureau of Reclamation, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and NASA Tournament Lab.

The Counting Every Drop Challenge seeks solutions to improve designs for ground-based precipitation measurement devices (precipitation gauges) that will be used to better inform water management decisions critical for human safety and environmental health, including forecasting, water supplies, monitoring water-year precipitation, controlling floods, and planning for irrigation needs.

Funding Information

The Challenge

Water resources managers rely on ground-based precipitation measurements to monitor basin conditions and support streamflow, water supply, and flood forecasts. These forecasts, in turn, inform water management decisions ranging from water allocation to flood control to environmental restoration. Despite the critical importance of precipitation gauges for water resources management, current precipitation gauges are subject to several challenges and limitations related to operation and maintenance (O&M) requirements and data accuracy and reliability. The Counting Every Drop Challenge, seeks for new or improved designs for ground-based precipitation measurement devices to address measurement limitations of existing precipitation gauges, including measurement accuracy, resolution, and stability, and to address operations and maintenance (O&M) challenges of existing precipitation gauges.

Phases

The challenge will be run in two phases with a total prize purse of $300,000.00 USD.

The Competitors moving forward will have the opportunity to work with a Subject Matter Expert (SME) who will advise Competitors in product and business development. Prior to sending the prototypes for testing, Competitors will have a virtual meeting with Reclamation and NRCS to demonstrate installation and operation of their prototype.

Competitors with prototypes that are ready for the field will ship their prototypes to NRCS for lab and field testing and receive a $3,000 milestone award. Prototypes will be deployed in the field alongside a benchmark device for at least eight months. One solution that meets the requirements and doesn’t require fluids to operate will be eligible for a $100,000 prize. All solutions are eligible for a share of the $30,000 innovation awards. If there are no fluid-free designs, the prize amounts will be redistributed.

Solution Requirements

Eligibility Criteria

For all Competitors, general eligibility requirements include:

For more information, visit https://www.freelancer.com/reclamation/counting-every-drop

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