EPA Awards $1.5M To Universities For Sustainable Drinking Water Treatment MethodsSeptember 6, 2012
Recently the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced
almost $1.5M in funding to three universities to develop sustainable
drinking water treatment methods. The research grants are
funded through EPA’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program.
These grants, which supplement last year’s grants to eight other
universities, are intended to provide innovative treatment methods
to protect people’s health by keeping harmful contaminants out of
drinking water.
There are approximately 157,000 public drinking water systems in
the U.S. regulated by EPA, states, or tribes that provide drinking
water to 90 percent of Americans. More than 290 million people
living in the U.S. rely on the safety of tap water provided by
public water systems that are subject to national drinking water
standards. For more information on the grants: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/dwtreatment For more information on EPA’s new Drinking Water Strategy:
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