This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to investigate how new technologies for water resource extraction, such as membrane-based filtration and retrofittable fermenters, can address anticipated challenges of water scarcity and resource insecurity. The project aims to develop conceptual tools for understanding resource extraction in a...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded William Paterson University of New Jersey a $292,640 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year grant will support collaborative research examining socio-economic patterns, public perceptions, and climate vulnerabilities of water resources and quality. In line with the program's goals of strengthening basic research in the social, behavioral and...
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...
This $750,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at the University of Texas at Austin to develop culturally appropriate messaging strategies for water utilities serving Spanish-speaking populations during infrastructure emergencies. The grant is part of NSF's Strengthening American Infrastructure program and supports the agency's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). Working with water utilities, the researchers will conduct community-centered...
This $107,246 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation will fund the "Collaborative Research: Water and Health Infrastructure Resilience and Learning (WHIRL)" project at North Carolina State University. The project aims to enhance understanding of the interactions between drinking water and public health systems and how these critical infrastructure systems adapt to challenges. It will investigate how the public...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $1,800,000 to the University of California, Davis to analyze the role of decentralized investment partnerships in developing aquifer storage infrastructure that promotes economic productivity, environmental benefits, and enhances community access to safe and reliable drinking water under a changing climate. The research will integrate political and institutional feedbacks into...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $196,357 project grant to Columbia University for research titled "Collaborative Research: Socio-Economic Patterns, Public Perceptions, and Climate Vulnerabilities of Water Resources and Quality." The three-year award, issued on December 1, 2021 with a completion date of November 30, 2024, will fund research under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to Arizona State University (ASU) to investigate technologies for maximizing the use of water as a resource and extracting resources found in water. The project examines efforts to make wastewater usable through membrane-based filtration technologies and retrofittable fermenters, and explores the social and environmental implications of these...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will address the impact of climate change on household water affordability. The $405,568 award to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University), awarded on February 1, 2024, will develop a new approach to assess the environmental, social, and infrastructure factors that determine water affordability, particularly for low-income populations. The project will also design...
This $183,897 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports fundamental research on how financial stress affects decision-making and the resilience of drinking water systems in U.S. cities. The project aims to advance understanding of the relationship between fiscal stress, policy decisions, and the resilience of critical municipal services. Key activities include conducting mixed methods research, producing a novel public database integrating municipal financial, operational, demographic, and political data, and training graduate and undergraduate students. Results are expected to provide scholars with new theoretical insights and actionable knowledge to improve equitable resilience of drinking water systems. This award, with a period of performance from October 1, 2023 to February 28, 2025, is being led by The Pennsylvania State University.