Advance Notice
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteers are crucial to the success of WRF’s research projects, and there are a variety of ways you can get involved. Every project has a Project Advisory Committee that aids in the development of RFPs, reviews proposals, and monitors project results. In addition, participating utilities can serve as test facilities, provide water samples, share staff expertise, and more. Learn more about how you can get involved.
Upcoming RFPs
The list of concepts below were approved by the Research Advisory Council.
We expect to have these RFPs at a later date.
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Integrating Equitable Outcomes into Diversifying and Alternative Water Projects
Project 5303
Budget
$200,000
Objectives
- Equipping utilities and decision-makers to holistically assess an alternative water system’s potential social, environmental, and economic benefit and/or impact on different types of communities
- Quantifying or operationalizing equitable impacts from alternative/diversifying water systems
- Identifying metrics to assess and inform decision-making processes for equitable implementation of diversifying water systems
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Developing a Protocol for Evaluating Pathogen Concentrations in Secondary Effluent
Project 5309
Budget
$200,000
Objectives
- Summarize existing approaches for evaluating and characterizing pathogen concentrations in secondary wastewater effluent at the site-specific level
- Evaluate water professional interpretation of pathogen characterization approaches and resulting standards for implementation
- Develop best practices and an accepted sampling protocol for measuring pathogens in secondary effluent for potable reuse with additional application to non-potable reuse