Plumbing research newsletter - September 2018
Check out the September 2018 issue of Tapped Into Plumbing, featuring a variety of articles on plumbing safety and research.
Project focuses on reducing pathogen threat in low-flow water systems
Low-flow building water systems designed to conserve water pose potential health hazards because they may cause an increase in disease-causing organisms and harmful chemicals. A new EPA-funded project led by Purdue University strives to help solve the problem.
In 2016, the U.S. government provided our multi-university team a $1,989,000 grant to initiate this project in addition to $1,100,000 contributed by our research partners. This project involves organizations from the building construction, plumbing, water utility, education, and public health sectors and input from homeowners and representatives from the general public. Together, we are working to understand how to make certain the water you use at home, at work, and schools is safe. The title of the project is “Right Sizing Tomorrow's Water Systems for Efficiency, Sustainability, and Public Health".
This website will be evolving as the project team gets started in 2017. Stay tuned for additional details. Download PDF Presentation about this project.
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