NWRI Highlights
NEW! Applications Now Being Accepted for 2010-2011 NWRI Fellowships
NWRI is now accepting applications for NWRI Fellowships, which provide funding to graduate students conducting research related to water science. For more inforamtion about the Fellowship Program, including the application procedures, please click here.
Call for Nominations - 2010 Clarke Prize for Excellence in Water Research NWRI is now accepting nominations for the 2010 Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize, which awards scholarly and practical achievements in water research. For more information about the Clarke Prize, click here. To download the nomination procedures, click here.
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A new workshop report is now available that discusses strategies to begin addressing contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in California’s water resources. The report was prepared by a consortium of nonprofit and university sponsors interested in water quality issues in California. Please click here to download the workshop report. |
Download 2008-2009 Progress Reports from NWRI Fellows NWRI's graduate fellowship recipients have provided short progress reports on the status of their NWRI-funded research projects for 2008-2009. Please click here to download the progress report PDF. |
| SCSC Salinity Fact Sheet Now Available to Download SCSC developed a Salinity Fact Sheet on “Salinity and Water Softeners” to help inform the discussion around Assembly Bill 1366, which is intended to restrict the use of self-regenerating water softeners to help control salinity in water supplies. Please visit www.socalsalinity.org to download the Fact Sheet. |
 2009 Clarke Prize Lecture Highlights Technologies to Obtain Renewable Energy from Wastewater Promising new technologies to generate clean, renewable forms of energy during the treatment of wastewater were highlighted by Dr. Bruce Logan of The Pennsylvania State University at the Sixteenth Annual NWRI Clarke Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony on July 9, 2009. To download the Clarke Prize Lecture, please click here. |
NWRI has launched a campaign to raise an endowment for the NWRI Ronald B. Linsky Fellowship for Outstanding Water Research, which supports graduate students who share Ron's vision of innovative, multi-disciplinary research within the water sciences.
Please consider contributing to the Fellowship's Endowment Fund. Our goal is to raise a $200,000 endowment in the first year from individuals, firms, and other organizations to maintain this special fellowship. For more information about the fellowship endowment fund or to donate, please click here. |
Download "Views on the Status of Water Recycling 2030" White Paper The 2009 NWRI White Paper on "Views of the Status of Water Recycling 2030: Recommendations of California's Recycled Water Task Force"provides a review of stakeholder opinions regarding implementation of recommendations made the 2003 Task Force Report, lessons learned, obstacles, new issues and others. Click here to download the white paper. |
Download Reports from Urban Runoff Impact Study Phase III Two new final project reports are now available that examine the impact of urban runoff on a watershed in Southern California. One report examines the transport and distribution of suspended particles along an inland-to-ocean transect, while another examines fecal indicator bacteria impairment in surface waters in an urban area.
Click here to download the reports. |
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