Ames, Iowa — Iowa State University engineers have received a grant from the EPA for research to help small rural communities reclaim wastewater and rainwater for other purposes like irrigation, firefighting, and drinking. Project leader Kaoru Ikuma says they are searching for options.
She’ll work with researchers from the University of Rhode Island and the University of California-Berkeley for the next four years.
She says the researchers will look at different technologies to treat water, and they’ll also be testing the treated water for contaminants such as forever chemicals that are harder to remove. They’ve received three million dollars for the research.
