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USEPA ORD Aging Water Infrastructure Research Program
Citation:
ROYER, M. D. USEPA ORD Aging Water Infrastructure Research Program. Presented at WSAA’s Managing Assets, Water Quality and Energy in a Carbon Constrained Future Conference, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, October 24 - 26, 2011.
Impact/Purpose:
To inform the public.
Description:
This presentation describes research that is being conducted under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Aging Water Infrastructure (AWI) Research Program, which will help U.S. water infrastructure to be more effectively and sustainably managed. The AWI research program seeks to accomplish this goal by improving and evaluating promising innovative technologies and techniques that will reduce the cost and improve the effectiveness of operation, maintenance, and replacement of aging and failing drinking water and wastewater treatment and conveyance systems. The AWI Research Program is primarily focused in four main areas: condition assessment, rehabilitation, advanced concepts, and treatment technologies for wastewater and water reuse; several projects are also investigating aging infrastructure effects on public health. Example projects are described.