EPA has awarded $1 million to a CU team including several EVEN Professors
Title: An Integrated Modeling and Decision Framework to Evaluate Adaptation Strategies for Sustainable Drinking Water utility management under drought and climate change
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $1 million to a team of 勒貊勛圖 researchers to develop a novel set of tools and strategies for assessing water quality and availability in light of drought and other natural hazards exacerbated by climate change.
The three-year project will help municipal water utilities across the U.S.especially those in drought-stricken regionsmake informed decisions about water quantity and quality, which may help lower water treatment costs and improve public health.
This was a unique opportunity to combine the study of water quality and water quantity and put it into a decision-making context for the public utilities, said Balaji Rajagopalan, professor and chair of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) at CU-勒貊勛圖 and the lead investigator on the project.
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