# Grassroots Source Water Protection

**Agency:** Agriculture (USDA)  
**Account:** Grassroots Source Water Protection  
**Source document:** Farm Service Agency · p. 47  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/agriculture/grassroots-source-water-protection  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 8.5 |

## Agriculture (USDA) discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $20.40B, FY2026 $33.40B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

The Grassroots Source Water Protection Program is a joint project by FSA and the nonprofit National Rural Water Association (NRWA) designed to help prevent source water pollution in States through voluntary practices installed by producers and other landowners at the local level. FSA uses onsite technical assistance capabilities of each State rural water association that operates a source water protection program in the State. State rural water associations deliver assistance in developing source water protection plans within watersheds for the common goal of preventing the contamination of (RTCP) for Geographically Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers) provides assistance to geographically disadvantaged farmers and ranchers for a portion of the transportation cost of


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Agriculture (USDA) › Farm Service Agency › Grassroots Source Water Protection


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*