Research Digest: Promoting Equitable Consideration of Decentralized Wastewater Options

This research digest identifies the principal barriers that prevent engineers from giving equitable consideration to decentralized wastewater treatment options. After identifying and prioritizing the barriers, the project team developed strategies that the engineering community can use to overcome them. They obtained input from stakeholders and evaluated the proposed strategies, which included methods, options, tools, laws, organizational designs, business models, curriculum design, financial design, and educational programming. For each strategy, one or more specific actions for resolving or removing the barrier were identified. Published by WERF. 28 pages. Soft cover and online PDF. (2007)

Originally funded as WERF project 04-DEC-2a.