Projects

Wind and solar energy both generate power intermittently. To allow these renewables to proliferate while maintaining grid stability, significant energy storage must be developed. The National Renewabl...

Multiple flood risk tools are available that address problems for different economic sectors, institutions, and geographic domains. A common goal among the majority of these tools is assistance with i...

Graham Catalyst Grant The grants provide support for small-scale, collaborative, and interdisciplinary sustainability research. Innovative Model to Help Urban Resource Managers Stop Stream ...

There are currently no established national benchmark averages for water use consumption in buildings. This leaves local governments and districts to create their own methods for establishing a wat...

Overview This research developed an Excel-based tool to assess the environmental benefits of urine diversion and conversion to useful products (e.g., fertilizer) on a citywide basis to compare them...

This project will apply low cost solar technologies to provide drinking water to isolated communities in water scarce regions.  The project will also use the concepts of Industrial Symbiosis t...

Goals & Objectives A great, on-going injustice exists – Michigan, like most states, lacks a public safety net for those unable to afford water and sanitation service. From families sacrificing ...

This project will advance the science and engineering of Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus modeling by developing and applying an integrated systems modeling framework. The modeling framework will enable ...

Fifteen faculty project teams were awarded support through a water research capacity building initiative from the University of Michigan Water Center. Each team received up to $20,000 to enhance wa...

Master's Project Goals & Objectives: This project aims to determine the environmental and fiscal consequences of sourcing the required volumes of water for brewing beer in the event that wa...

This doctoral dissertation research project will focus on the factors that shape how stormwater managers have redefined the uses and value of stormwater. In both arid and humid regions, the treatme...

Made possible by The Dow Chemical Company, the University of Michigan’s Dow Sustainability Fellows Program supports full-time graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are committed to findin...

Goals & Objectives: To develop a new urban and landscape design strategy to incorporate with water sensitivity (scarcity and pollution) and low impact development (LID) in China. Justific...

This project aims at evaluating risks for the global trade network posed by water scarcity. This objective will be achieved by developing and applying a probabilistic network analysis framework. Ba...

Recent advances in directional drilling have made extraction of natural gas and oil from shale formations economically viable via high-volume hydraulic fracturing, a process by which a mixture of w...

This project seeks to understand the broad, complex and potentially unanticipated impacts on humans and the environment that could emerge from the deployment of emerging innovative technologies cur...