Project Grant W911NF2510252

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1,472,016 Cooperative Agreement to develop a Water-Energy Nexus Open Knowledge Network (WEN-OKN) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The WEN-OKN project aims to interconnect currently siloed water and energy data across multiple federal agencies, including USGS, NOAA, DOE, EPA, FEMA, DOT, NASA, and USACE, into a densely interconnected knowledge graph. This will enable improved understanding and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $999,946 in funding to Wetx Inc., a small disadvantaged business located in Salt Lake City, UT. The project aims to develop a transformative solution to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) by establishing a transparent and accountable platform for digital water rights trading...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $256,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant to Advanceh2O Corp from August 2021 to June 2023. The grant supports the development of real-time predictive analytics during water treatment processes under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The program seeks technological innovations and solutions to national challenges. Under this award, Advanceh2O Corp will develop an intelligent and proactive...

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...

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 awarded a $255,849 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to First Water Technology Co. on February 15, 2023. The grant will fund research and development of a compact, low-maintenance drinking water treatment plant through January 31, 2024. Specifically, the company will develop an automated control system for precise coagulant dosing, modify the design to minimize waste streams, and construct a pilot plant with...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research and development of a digital platform utilizing distributed ledger technology to improve water rights management and enable water markets in the Western United States. Awarded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, the grant recipient Wetx Inc. will develop a unique combination of distributed ledger tokenization and decentralized distributed file storage to digitally represent water rights and...

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 Watershed Studios by Realize 2050 program, funded by a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program, aims to transform dormant water power intellectual property from universities and national labs into scalable solutions. The program consists of two phases - Insight Development and Venture Building - to uncover underutilized IP, solicit problem...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $447,911 to Oklahoma State University (OSU) to conduct research on nature-based solutions to improve water security in peri-urban areas. Over a 3-year period, the project will engage U.S. students in field work and training, in partnership with colleagues in South Africa, to explore how ecosystem-based approaches can provide sustainable, low-cost solutions to...