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Subject: New Funding for Stormwater, Water Reclamation Research
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:28:08 -0500
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Right to Water (right-to-water@iatp.org) Posted: 07/10/2001 By svarghese@iatp.org
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New Funding for Stormwater, Water Reclamation Research Announced by Water
Environment Research Foundation (WERF)
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The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF), a nonprofit water quality
research organization in Alexandria, Va., invites proposals on three new
research projects, worth a total of $1,090,000, to address cutting-edge
water quality issues through collaborative funding and state of the art
research. Stormwater and urban drainage, water reuse and recycling, and the
detection, monitoring, and removal of various contaminants form the basis
for WERF's 2001 solicited research topics.
WERF and British counterpart United Kingdom Water Industry Research (UKWIR)
have jointly developed and allocated $590,000 to funding Post-Project
Monitoring of BMP/SUDS To Determine Performance and Whole-Life Costs (WERF
project number 01-CTS-21-T). Best management practices (BMP) and
sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) are becoming more popular as
local governments and utilities attempt to find methods to combat the
adverse impacts of stormwater. But there has been little systematic
research to date on the costs, long-term effectiveness, and ecological
impacts of BMP/SUDS. This project will assess the design, performance, and
life-cycle costs (capital as well as operation and maintenance) of selected
BMP/SUDS.
Results from recent research indicate that endocrine-disrupting compounds
are present in municipal wastewater effluent at concentrations capable of
severely affecting fish. The second RFP, The Use of Bioassays and Chemical
Measurements To Assess the Removal of Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds in
Water-Reclamation Systems (WERF project number 01-HHE-20-T) seeks to
combine chemical analysis with bioassays in evaluating the ability of
different treatment processes to remove endocrine-disrupting compounds from
recycled water. This RFP, worth $300,000, has been developed and jointly
funded by the WaterReuse Task Force, representing WERF, the American Water
Works Association Research Foundation, the National Water Research
Institute, and the WateReuse Foundation.
While diverse classes of pharmaceutics and their metabolites have been
identified in wastewater and the aquatic environment, the risk to public
health from exposure to these contaminants is unknown. WERF's third RFP,
Evaluation and Testing of Bioassays for Pharmaceutics in Reclaimed Water
(01-HHE-21-T), also developed and funded by the Water Reuse Task Force,
will validate the use of bioassays for detecting and quantifying one or
more major classes of pharmaceutical contaminants. This approach will serve
as a model for developing assays for other classes of pharmaceutics that
pose potential health risks to aquatic life and humans. The project will be
funded at $200,000.
All proposals must be delivered to WERF by close of business, 30 August
2001. The RFPs and instructions on submitting proposals are available on
the WERF website at http://www.werf.org/requests/SUB_rfp.htm. For more
information, call WERF at (703) 684-2470, extension 7900; fax (703)
299-0742; or email dmorroni@werf.org.
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Jan W. S. Spoor, Publications Coordinator, Water Environment Research
Foundation, jspoor@werf.org http://www.werf.org (703) 684-2470
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