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Unlocking Hydropower Potential from Environmental Flows for Energy-Water Resilience
This white paper examines how mandated environmental flow (E-flow) releases at hydropower dams can be leveraged to generate renewable energy while maintaining ecological integrity. Environmental flows sustain aquatic ecosystems but often bypass turbines, representing lost generati...
DeNeale, S., Connor, M., and McManamay, R.
Minimizing Costs and Risk for Rural Water Systems
Many rural and remote populations either lack access to treated water supplies or are served by water systems that are at risk from increasing contaminant concentrations, aging infrastructure, unreliable supplies, and/or groundwater depletion. Recent research has shown that these ...
Hendrickson, T., Rao, P., Stokes-Draut, J., Gonzalez, S., and Fiske, P.
Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Water Sources and Impacts on Water and Wastewater Treatment
This white paper examines the critical issue of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in water systems, emphasizing the need for advanced water reuse and reclamation technologies to mitigate water scarcity, particularly in arid and remote regions. These contaminants, which inclu...
Saulsbury, B., Reese, S., and Mathews, T.
Integrated Energy-Water Data for Cross-Sector Resilience
Disjointed management of water and energy systems has created systemic vulnerabilities in the United States, particularly as aging infrastructure, population and industrial growth, and severe weather events strain both sectors. High-quality, standardized datasets like those provid...
Hodson, A., Stokes-Draut, J., Chini, C., Rao, P., and Semrod, K.
Integrated Water-Energy Resilience Research and Testbeds
Water availability increasingly constrains the reliability and flexibility of water-dependent energy systems, including hydropower, thermoelectric generation, and grid operations. Hydrologic extremes, shifting demand, aging infrastructure, and cross-sector pressures are intensifyi...
Negron-Juarez, R., Amusat, O., Koven, C., and Viers, J.
Optimizing Hydropower Operations through Basin-Scale Coordination for Energy-Water Resilience
This white paper aligns with the Water for Energy focal area and advances energy-water resilience through basin-scale coordination of hydropower operations. It outlines a transition from top-down management approaches to bottom-up, stakeholder-driven approach to improve hydropower...
Davis, L., Corsair, H., Ossa, D., and Nachman, M.
Produced Water: A Potential Solution to Achieve America Energy Dominance
Produced water, a significant byproduct of oil and gas extraction, represents an underutilized water resource. However, the high salinity, presence of organics, and scale-forming compounds make it technically challenging to treat. Membrane desalination technologies suffer from fou...
Sharan, P., and Ho, T.
Quantifying Energy Use across U.S. Water Sectors: A Scalable AI/ML-Driven Framework for Data Integration and Resilience Planning
This white paper explores opportunities to quantify and characterize energy use across major U.S. water sectors, including irrigation, water supply, and water treatment, with a focus on energy for water dimension. A scalable AI/ML-driven framework will be developed to harmonize fr...
Ghimire, G., Bhanja, S., and Martinez, R.
A National Framework for Water-Informed Geothermal Expansion and Energy-Water Resilience
This white paper outlines the need for a coordinated, national framework to guide geothermal energy expansion in ways that use water efficiently and strengthen energy-water resilience. It highlights the opportunity to connect national-to-regional modeling with site-scale analysis,...
Wild, T., Niazi, H., DiRaddo, S., Villante, M., Goecker, A., and Chowdhury, K.
Electrocoagulation for Water Recycle and Resource Recovery from Farm Wastewater
The goal of this proposed project is to use an electrochemical process to recover ammonia as struvite, a slow-release fertilizer, from real dairy-farm wastewater and recycle the treated water for animal cooling, feeding, cleaning, or irrigation. The produced solid fertilizer (bulk...
Jang, G., and Wiechert, A.