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March 28, 2016
iUTAH researchers from USU funded by EPA for Water Reuse
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced funding to five institutions to research human and ecological health impacts associated with water reuse and conservation practices.
Institutions received funding through EPA’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program. The five institutions awarded the funding received a total of $3.3 million between them. Those institutions are: the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Utah State University, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, University of California Riverside and the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF).
The research being done through the five institutions and EPA will evaluate how reclaimed water applications such as drinking water reuse, replenishing groundwater and irrigation can affect public and ecological health.
EPA announced these grants in conjunction with the White House Water Summit, which was held to raise awareness of water issues and potential solutions in the United States. iUTAH researchers Ryan Dupont, Doug Jackson-Smith, and Sarah Null are named as three of five principal investigators from Utah State University.
More information about these grants is available here.
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