The Water Research Foundation (WRF) invites proposals for 20 research projects that will advance the science of water for communities around the world.

The WRF Research Priority Program focuses on five key themes: efficient resource use and recovery, healthy communities and environment, resilient infrastructure, treatment optimization and intensification, and utility operations and management.

Research proposals for these topics must be submitted by November 11, 2022:

• State of the science and regulatory acceptability for PFAS residual management options
• Applicability of remote sensing technology for water quality monitoring and ecological assessment
• Integrating climate change impacts with wet weather management, capital improvement and stream network enhancement
• Preparing the water sector to embrace technology: Skillsets and enterprise management approaches for the digital age
• Feasibility and applicability of emerging utility-led innovations in addressing affordability
• Incorporating equity and social dimensions into community climate adaptation planning and watershed management
• Fate of microplastics in drinking water treatment plants
• Diversity, equity and inclusion best practices for the water sector workforce
• Improved risk management from condition assessment data
• Innovative technologies to improve monitoring of assets

Research proposals for these topics must be submitted by December 13, 2022:

• Evaluating innovative and sustainable treatment options for biosolids
• Cost-effective approaches for control of multiple constituents of emerging concern
• Feasibility of full-scale implementation of LED UV disinfection
• Navigating one water planning through municipal water programs: Meeting multiple objectives and regulatory challenges
• Improved equity and environmental justice in asset management
• Integrating wastewater-based epidemiology and clinical surveillance for public health and utility operations
• Back to the future: Guidance for adaptive and scenario supply planning approaches
• Beyond net zero: Advancing interdependencies between utility greenhouse gas emission reductions and water-energy-food nexus
• Establishing industry-wide guidance for water utility life cycle greenhouse gas emission inventories
• Quantifying the impact of artificial intelligence/machine learning-based approaches on utility performance