Project Grant SJO10023GR0033

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will support a collaborative research project at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside). The project aims to develop a user-interactive approach to water management for sustainable data centers. Key objectives include: Designing a fair and accurate water accounting system to track water footprints at both the user and facility levels....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program awarded a $299,957 project grant to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to develop a user-interactive approach to water management for sustainable data centers. The 3-year project, which began on Sep 15, 2023, aims to: Create a fair and accurate water accounting system for data centers at both the user and facility levels; Develop a scalable user-interactive resource management approach...

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 $747,844 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will develop a cybertraining curriculum focused on climate, water and environmental sustainability. Led by Purdue University, the collaborative project will create three levels of curriculum—foundational, expert, and developer—to train students, educators, and professionals on integrating and analyzing open...

This $3,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Michigan State University (MSU) will develop a graduate training program focused on advancing water sustainability and equity through data-driven research and stakeholder partnerships. The 5-year award will train 58 PhD students, including 33 NRT-funded trainees, across engineering, computer science, biology, ecology, public health, and social science disciplines. The program...

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...

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 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $129,450.00 in funding to the High Country Conservation Center (HC3) from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2027. The project aims to increase environmental literacy and encourage environmentally-beneficial behaviors in Summit County, Colorado through two main components: (1) educating 550 7th grade students on water conservation through the...

The American Water Works Association (Awwa) received a $291,122 Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water through the Innovative Water Infrastructure Workforce Development Program (SDWA 1459E) to implement a water leadership training program. The grant period is from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2024. Under the award, Awwa will train 50 current water utility employees from around the country to prepare them for leadership roles through an experiential water...

This $2,033,378 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water under the Innovative Water Infrastructure Workforce Development Program (CFDA 66.445), provides funding to The Water Tower Institute, Inc. to accelerate career tracks in the water utilities sector and expand access to water utility workforce opportunities. The key activities include establishing targeted internship, apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, and post-secondary bridge programs...