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New Research Projects in January

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New Projects
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C-CUS:  Climate, Costs and Urban Sanitation (Dec-2016 - Dec-2019).  Principal Investigator (PI):  Prof B. Evans (School of Civil Engineering); Co-Investigators (Co-Is):   Dr M. A. Camargo-Valero and Dr G. Locatelli (School of Civil Engineering). Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (£700k).

Microbial pollution in water sources under extreme weather conditions: modelling sediment-pathogen interactions (2017). PI: Dr I Douterelo (University of Sheffield); Co-Is: Dr M. A. Camargo-Valero, Dr C. Berretta and Dr M. Trigg (School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds) and other research partners from University of York and University of Sheffield. Funder: The White Rose University Consortium - Collaboration Fund (£9.5k).

Catchment Hydrology Explorer for Water Stewards (CatchX Platform), NERC Innovations grant, 200K, 18 months.PI, Mark Trigg UAF Water Risk, Civ Eng Co-I, Professor Suraje Dessai, SEE
This project aims to address the severe lack of water related information in data scarce contexts through the development of a web based, global scope, catchment hydrological information tool that not only allows non-expert users access to hydrological information, but also provides meaningful, locally relevant, visualisation of these data for decision making.