Engineers and scientists from Colorado State University and Israel joined with policy experts at a workshop in May to collaborate on solutions for sustainable agricultural water.
A team including several CSU researchers is using one of the most powerful chemical analysis instruments in the world to characterize and catalog thousands of chemical compounds in the PFAS family, so future studies can find solutions to health and environmental impacts.
The team is developing materials that function as chemical sorbents, similar to sponges, for the precise removal and recovery of certain nutrients from municipal and agricultural wastewater.
The NSF-funded program brings together students and faculty who are interested in studying food, energy and water issues and the many ways in which those systems affect each other.
CSU is a founding partner in a $110 million U.S. Department of Energy research network, the National Alliance for Water Innovation, focused on treatment and reuse technologies for wastewater, seawater and other untapped sources.
Early in the pandemic, a CSU team set out to quantify the dynamics of how aerosols like viruses travel from one person to another, under different circumstances.
New research indicates that using produced water from hydraulic fracturing for irrigation could leave crop systems more vulnerable to pathogens.
The National Science Foundation has awarded about $3 million to support the new program, called InTERFEWS.
Citrus greening has destroyed acres of crops and cost untold billions in revenue in Florida and across the globe.