EPA to Fund Two Drinking Water Innovation Centers
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Social
U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyProvides Over $8 Million to Create Two National Centers for Research & Innovation in Small to Medium Sized Drinking Water Systems
Ninety seven percent of the nation's roughly 160,000 public water systems each serve fewer than 10,000 people and face several obstacles including limited resources,aging infrastructureand compliance with a variety of regulations.
The recipients are the University of Colorado Boulder's Design of Risk Reducing, Innovative Implementable Small System Knowledge (DeRISK) Center, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Water Innovation Network for Sustainable Small Systems (WINSSS) Center. These two EPA funded centers will develop and test advanced, low cost methods to reduce, control, and eliminate groups of water contaminants that present challenges to communities worldwide.
These drinking water systems face many obstacles including limited resources, aging infrastructure, and complying with a variety of regulations These centers will help strengthen the technical, managerial, and financial capacities of drinking water providers throughout the country. Both centers will collaborate with a range of stakeholders to support problem-oriented research on groups of water contaminants and their origins. This research marks a move towards developing transdisciplinary results that will be nationally acceptable and applicable.
These grants, part of EPA's research on safe and sustainable drinking water, supportthe development of water clusters-- networks of businesses, researchers, and others involved in water technology.
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