This $440,000 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, supports research to understand the relationship between bedrock lithology, water quality, and health equity in Oklahoma. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Modeling the link between bedrock lithology, land use, settlement patterns, and the uneven distribution of health-related water quality...
This $401,282 federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557), will enable Oklahoma State University (OSU) to generate agricultural groundwater withdrawal data across the Upper Red River Basin in Oklahoma. The project aims to develop a comprehensive dataset of active water wells and groundwater use for irrigation to mitigate the unintended consequences of aquifer overdraft due to the recent expansion of irrigated croplands in...
This $749,786 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program (CFDA #10.310) will fund research into conjunctive freshwater-saltwater management strategies. Oklahoma State University will develop and test an expanded SWAT-MODFLOW modeling framework called SWAT-MODFLOW-SALT to simulate spatially distributed surface water-groundwater salt fate...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $495,000 Project Grant under the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, aims to create a comprehensive curriculum to assist well users in the Black Belt region of the southern United States in ensuring the microbial and chemical safety of their water used for food production and processing. The curriculum...
The University of Oklahoma, through its Office of Research Administration, was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) to develop and test low-cost materials for the treatment of brackish water. The project aims to treat two model brackish water compositions from Texas and California, primarily focusing on the removal of chloride anions and sodium cations. The treatment methods involve adsorption to...
This $749,076 project grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) will fund research and outreach focused on soil and water conservation in cotton cropping systems in the Central High Plains through January 2026. Oklahoma State University will establish field experiments comparing cotton production in rotation with corn, as continuous cotton and corn cropping systems. Kansas State University will execute...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water awarded a $15,400,000 Project Grant under the Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Training Grants - Section 1442 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (CFDA 66.424) program to Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated. Through this funding, the organization will provide technical, managerial, and financial capacity-building training and technical assistance to operators, board members, and managers of tribal and...
This $223,282 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program (CFDA 66.608) supports the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in building a system management tool for public water systems in the state. The project aims to provide a centralized, web-based platform for public water supply systems in Oklahoma to enter, manage, track, and store their daily monitoring and maintenance reporting...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $150,000 supports research examining the impact of social capital on access to safe drinking water from private wells. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the University of Virginia will evaluate how positions in social networks contribute to water quality, particularly after flooding events. Researchers will analyze cell phone mobility data to construct social networks and measure network...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,596,980 project grant to the University of Oklahoma under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support research titled "Conservation Incentives and the Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Water Sustainability." The university will conduct research from January 15, 2022 to December 31, 2026 to strengthen understanding of integrated earth systems through basic research on water sustainability. As part of the award, the University of...