Cooperative Agreement 96691701

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469), will provide $2,040,000 over 4 years to the Georgia Southern University Research & Service Foundation Inc. to implement the "Safe Water Together" program. This community-engaged research initiative aims to ensure sustainable and equitable access to safe water in coastal Georgia. The program will utilize...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $505,459 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 will support Syracuse University's Environmental Finance Center (EFC) to deliver training, technical assistance, and capacity building activities across the region. Key focus areas include water infrastructure and equity planning, sustainable materials management, aquatic debris prevention, and collaborative climate change planning. The award will also provide funding for the University of...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant of $273,735 under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation. The grant, titled "CAREER: Sustainable Pipelines for America's Water Infrastructure through Life Cycle Assessment and Workforce Development," aims to: Integrate sustainability assessments into water distribution system planning and management by developing life cycle environmental and economic models for...

This Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office for Water totals $314,079 under the Innovative Water Infrastructure Workforce Development Program (CFDA 66.445). The grant supports the Institute for Future Water Leaders, a collaboration between Syracuse University, Wichita State University, and the University of New Mexico. Products include instructional content and training modules addressing foundational and emerging topics for water and wastewater...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $330,000.00, was granted by the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) to Cornell University. The project, titled "Advancing System Integration and Stress Testing Methods in Support of Water Availability Assessment under Uncertainty", will contribute to the Predictive Understanding of Multiscale Processes (PUMP) project by developing and demonstrating a stress...

This $760,463 cooperative agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Innovative Water Infrastructure Workforce Development Program (CFDA 66.445), provides funding to Multiplier, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization. Through this award, Multiplier will accelerate career tracks in the water utilities sector and provide access to water utility workforce opportunities. The activities include establishing leadership development, occupational training, mentoring, and...

This $430,230 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) will fund a 3-year research project at the University of Arizona to develop the next generation of U.S. water accounting and natural capital accounting methods. The key products and services to be delivered include: Spatially disaggregating USGS water use datasets from 2000-2015 into a high-resolution 30-meter raster data product...

The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) has been awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant will establish the foundation of a research center that aims to advance equitable and just water services, thus providing for a resilient future. The project focuses on addressing five related water challenges in the Southeast U.S. - water scarcity, water...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering (NSF OISE), totaling $1.5 million, will fund the development of technologies and educational programs to advance water resilience in buildings. Under the Technologies for One Water in Extremely Resilient Buildings (TOWER) project, a research team led by The Research Foundation for the State University of New York will build collaborations between U.S. researchers and international...

The Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated (RCAP) was awarded a $6.765 million project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office for Water under the Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Training Grants program (CFDA #66.424). Under this award, RCAP will provide technical, managerial, and financial capacity-building training and technical assistance to operators, board members, and managers of small community water systems, non-transient...