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...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $1,212,800.00 to Mespilus Inc., a small business located in Worcester, MA, to develop a third-generation capacitive deionization technology for affordable and efficient water purification. The project aims to create a compact, low-maintenance device suitable for rural areas, factories, and buildings that can remove high levels of...
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 $256,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant to Advanceh2O Corp from August 2021 to June 2023. The grant supports the development of real-time predictive analytics during water treatment processes under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The program seeks technological innovations and solutions to national challenges. Under this award, Advanceh2O Corp will develop an intelligent and proactive...
This $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program will advance a new approach to monitoring drinking water quality that aims to fill gaps in the current monitoring framework. The project, titled "NSF CONVERGENCE ACCELERATOR FUTURE WATER SYSTEMS: TRUSTED TAP - EQUITABLE MONITORING OF DRINKING WATER QUALITY AT THE HOUSEHOLD-LEVEL USING POINT-OF-USE FILTERS", will refine and...
This $996,717 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports Waihome LLC, a for-profit small business, in developing an affordable and resilient onsite wastewater treatment solution. The project aims to design and pilot test an above-ground treatment unit that utilizes a symbiotic algal-bacterial biofilm to provide high-quality aerobic wastewater treatment, addressing issues with the performance and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $274,627 aims to develop a smart virtual assistant-enabled sewer infrastructure asset data management tool. The innovation will enable data-driven asset management practices in municipal wastewater divisions by addressing technical hurdles in natural language processing, database querying, and data visualization. The project, executed by Infratie Solutions, LLC, a minority-owned...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator award under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $2,000,000 to the University of South Florida to develop a new class of adaptive decentralized wastewater infrastructure solutions (ADWIS) called the "HONU Hub" for island communities. The project aims to create a market-ready ADWIS that can address water quality and scarcity challenges in Hawaii and other U.S. island regions, as...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Terrainworks, Inc. for the TealWaters project. The TealWaters project aims to develop an interactive web-map platform and open-source analytical tools to map and model wetlands across the United States. The goal is to provide natural resource professionals, policymakers, and scientists with advanced tools to enhance water access and...