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 Bumper summer funding issue This month’s 16 news items contain no fewer than 11 funding opportunities! Four examples with water as key component.

Joint US-UK workshop on improving understanding of potential environmental impacts associated with unconventional hydrocarbons The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), along with the Environment Sustainability and Energy Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry
FUNDING: The Innovation Projects Open Call The Innovation Projects Open Call will fund projects that increase and accelerate the uptake and impact of NERC funded research outputs by supporting translational and knowledge exchange activity
FUNDING: The Valuing Nature Programme funding call The Valuing Nature Programme funding call on Managing the Environment to Improve Human Health and Wellbeing will be open towards the end of June 2015 – see pre-announcement here.

FUNDING: SHEAR (Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience) research consortia grants 2015 Hydrology & drought – Outline proposals are invited for a new funding opportunity as part of the Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience (SHEAR) research programme.