Water Environment and Reuse Foundation (WE&RF)'s National Center for Resource Recovery and Nutrient Management

The goal of the Center is to provide innovative data, demonstrations, and tools to catalyze a paradigm shift in the water quality community; one where nutrients (N&P) are not regarded as wastes, but rather valuable resources and an integral part of a sustainable managed system that includes the nutrients, energy, and water. WERF will administer the Center. All research activities will be led by university researchers and conducted by teams of subject matter experts at universities, wastewater utilities, non-profit community organizations and commercial animal facilities. This proposal contains four named academic subawards and three requests for proposals to be administered through WERF's competitive process. The Center's communication and outreach to the broad water quality stakeholder community will be supported by several well-respected national organizations and institutions. (1) Develop the science on source control, treatment optimization and nutrient recovery across multiple sectors and convey it in a manner that will support its use to achieve beneficial health and environmental outcomes; (2) Demonstrate the technology and process performance results and data to support their implementation; and (3) Evaluate social, economic and environmental costs, benefits, acceptance and implementation in each of the projects.