I think the US government agencies have a lot a red tape to get...

I think the US government agencies have a lot a red tape to get projects going. Probably even slower now for environmental projects with the new president.

Here are a couple of meetings from Bay Area Clean Water Agencies (BACWA) mentioning MABR:
https://bacwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/July-20-2018-BACWA-Executive-Board-Meeting-Packet.pdf
https://bacwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/August-17-2018-BACWA-Executive-Board-Meeting-Packet.pdf

Here's a BV presentation for BACWA (Fluence is also mentioned in here):
https://bacwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Sathyamoorthy-MABR-20180817.pdf

Here's Sebastien Tilmans' June 2018 presentation to Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV):
http://www.wp.sustainablesv.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TilmansSSV_20180531.pdf
It looks like a year long project and then there would be a period of time for data analysis and also preparing the report.