This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation project grant, awarded to Purdue University, aims to develop approaches for the joint operation of coupled municipal drinking water and electric power distribution networks. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year project include: Developing operational planning and real-time control strategies for these coupled water-power networks under uncertainty. Designing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Cooperative Agreement award under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $989,932 to Maia Water Inc. from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026 to develop an open, AI-powered software platform for water and wastewater utilities. The platform aims to enhance operational decision-making and facilitate innovative financing for essential water infrastructure by integrating watershed models and forecasting socio-economic...
This $256,000 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research and development of a digital platform utilizing distributed ledger technology to improve water rights management and enable water markets in the Western United States. Awarded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, the grant recipient Wetx Inc. will develop a unique combination of distributed ledger tokenization and decentralized distributed file storage to digitally represent water rights and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $131,882 to support coordination of the Belmont Forum's Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative on the Food-Water-Energy Nexus. The University of Colorado Boulder, through its Future Earth Global Secretariat Hub, will coordinate activities and provide organizational support for 15 international, transdisciplinary research teams examining...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program. The total award amount is $1,377,954.00, with a project period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028. The award, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RII FEC: ADVANCING QUALITY AND CLIMATE-RESILIENT WATER MANAGEMENT WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND ENHANCED SENSOR NETWORK," aims to develop intelligent and affordable systems to monitor water...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Virginia. The grant supports the development of new physics-guided graph network models to capture complex, non-stationary, and poorly observed water dynamics in freshwater ecosystems. Key innovations include new graph-based architectures, continual learning strategies, and model initialization methods that leverage...
This $2,972,788 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program aims to develop Mobile Energy-Water Reuse Systems (MEWRS) to provide reliable electricity and potable water in disproportionately affected communities (DACs). Led by Louisiana Tech University, the project will: (1) create new perovskite solar cell systems to supply stable electricity during natural disasters; (2) develop energy-efficient water purification...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $999,946 in funding to Wetx Inc., a small disadvantaged business located in Salt Lake City, UT. The project aims to develop a transformative solution to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) by establishing a transparent and accountable platform for digital water rights trading...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $149,923 project grant to the University of Nevada, Reno under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop the Nevada Water Network from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023. The Network aims to create a dynamic research, societal, and education partnership between water suppliers, users, policymakers, and academics across Nevada to address critical urban-rural water sustainability challenges. Key activities include identifying water sustainability...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $254,976 Project Grant to Resbonds International Corporation through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a digital platform for assessing water quality at urban-watershed interfaces. The platform will integrate physical data from advanced monitoring systems with artificial intelligence to serve as a scalable analytics platform using environmental, economic, and social data. It aims to help cities and utilities finance infrastructure projects...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1,472,016 Cooperative Agreement to develop a Water-Energy Nexus Open Knowledge Network (WEN-OKN) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The WEN-OKN project aims to interconnect currently siloed water and energy data across multiple federal agencies, including USGS, NOAA, DOE, EPA, FEMA, DOT, NASA, and USACE, into a densely interconnected knowledge graph. This will enable improved understanding and management of the complex interdependencies within the water-energy nexus, including identifying potential cascading failures. The multi-year project will establish an open, ethically driven, and collaborative data platform to facilitate interdisciplinary research and decision-making at the water-energy interface. Key sub-awards are planned to support this work at the University of Arizona, UC San Diego, Saint Louis University, and Virginia Tech.