Project Grant 2532290
- This $216,478 National Science Foundation project grant through the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund research at New Mexico State University in collaboration with the United States Environmental Protection Agency to investigate the pathogenicity of bacteria surviving water disinfection processes. The two-year project beginning February 1, 2023 will explore the impact of chlorine water treatment on bacterial pathogens using advanced cellular assays and metatranscriptomics....
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $482,351 Project Grant to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct research on the impacts of drinking water treatment and distribution processes on the survival and pathogenesis of water-associated pathogens, such as nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). The project aims to investigate how different drinking water treatment train configurations and associated chemical oxidant stressors influence the functional...
- This Project Grant award for $500,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) in developing a real-time forecasting system to predict drinking water quality in three Appalachian reservoirs. The project, titled "RAISE: Building Resilience to Earth System Hazards: Forecasting Drinking Water Quality with Real-Time Integrated Catchment Modeling", will use simulations of...
- 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 $349,044 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research to compare the concentrations and toxicity contributions of different classes of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) formed during drinking water treatment. The key objectives are to: 1) Compare DBP formation and toxicity between chlorine/chloramine disinfection and granular activated carbon treatment followed by chlorination; 2) Assess how water source, age,...
- This $109,924 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research assessing the resilience of centralized and decentralized water supply infrastructure in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Fiona. The University of Puerto Rico Research and Development Center will collect timely data through surveys, stakeholder workshops, and water quality monitoring at select systems. Researchers will analyze the data to evaluate behaviors and effectiveness of...
- This Project Grant award of $200,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding a rapid research project at Montclair State University to evaluate the resilience of small community water systems (CWS) to Hurricanes Helene and Milton in southwest Florida. The project aims to advance understanding of hurricane resilience behaviors of these small CWS, which typically lack the capacity to adapt to natural hazards due to limited resources. The research...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $647,273 Project Grant to Arizona State University under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support research from 2021-2026 to develop coupled climate and human health models to build pathways for extreme heat resilience. Leveraging its expertise in climate modeling and epidemiology, ASU will integrate climate change projections with health vulnerability data to identify communities most at risk from rising temperatures. The...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $477,883 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. The goal of this CAREER award is to test the hypothesis that local water storage can be designed to preserve or improve water quality following contamination events while achieving resiliency through interruptions to water supplies. The key objectives are to: 1) quantify the effects of contamination on the accumulation,...
- This $245,018 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support collaborative research at the Stevens Institute of Technology to study the transformation of phenols to aliphatic disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in drinking water treatment. The research aims to identify critical factors and develop strategies to minimize the formation of intermediate halophenols, which are unwanted DBPs created when chlorine reacts with organic matter in...
DISINFECTION RESILIENCY AND MICROBIAL RISK IN DRINKING WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS DURING EXTREME HEAT DISASTERS -EXTREME HEAT DISASTERS ARE INCREASINGLY COMMON ACROSS THE US, WITH MANY CITIES EXPERIENCING MULTIPLE CONSECUTIVE DAYS ABOVE 95?F (35?C). EXTREME HEAT DIRECTLY IMPACTS DRINKING WATER QUALITY BY INCREASING THE WATER TEMPERATURE WITHIN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS. HIGH TEMPERATURES CAN COMPROMISE THE EFFICACY OF DISINFECTION AGAINST MICROBIAL PATHOGENS BY INCREASING THE DECAY RATES OF DISINFECTANT RESIDUALS IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS. WARMER TEMPERATURES CAN SIMULTANEOUSLY STIMULATE GROWTH OF OPPORTUNISTIC PATHOGENS WHICH CAN CAUSE ACUTE ILLNESS OR DEATH. THUS, THE FAILURE OF DISINFECTION IN DRINKING WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS DURING AN EXTREME HEAT DISASTER COULD CAUSE A COMMUNITY OUTBREAK OF ILLNESS THAT WOULD FURTHER STRESS HOSPITAL RESOURCES AND LEAD TO LOSS OF LIFE. THIS DISASTER RESILIENCE RESEARCH GRANTS (DRRG) PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO UNDERSTANDING THE RISK OF EXTREME HEAT TO THE MICROBIAL AND CHEMICAL SAFETY OF DRINKING WATER AND HELP IDENTIFY ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS TO BUILD WATER SYSTEM RESILIENCE. THE FINDINGS WILL INFORM WATER UTILITY DISASTER RESPONSE AND PREPAREDNESS PLANS, ENSURING THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE CLEAN WATER DURING EXTREME HEAT EVENTS. FINDINGS WILL BE COMMUNICATED TO UTILITIES THROUGH STAKEHOLDER ORGANIZATIONS AND TARGETED OUTREACH TO AT-RISK WATER SYSTEMS, SUCH AS THOSE SERVING LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES ALONG THE SOUTHWESTERN BORDER THAT EXPERIENCE FREQUENT EXTREME HEAT EVENTS. THIS PROJECT PROVIDES AN ENRICHING EXPERIENCE FOR GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE TRAINEES AT TWO DIVERSE PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES AND WILL INTRODUCE UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS TO EXCITING, IMPACTFUL STEM RESEARCH. THE TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN TWO EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATORS WILL PRIME BOTH LABS FOR FUTURE INNOVATIONS IN WATER QUALITY AND RESILIENCE ENGINEERING. THIS PROJECT WILL EVALUATE THE EFFECT OF EXTREME HEAT ON EFFICACY OF DISINFECTION IN DRINKING WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS AND EVALUATE A NOVEL ENGINEERING SOLUTION TO INCREASE RESILIENCY. MOST DISINFECTION STUDIES ARE LIMITED TO
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $214.2k | 6/10/25 |