The Foundation's Board of Directors approved two new projects at its September 15 meeting in Seattle, WA.
A Tailored Collaboration (TC) project with El Paso Water Utilities titled Continuous Flow Seawater RO System for Recovery of Silica-Saturated RO Concentrate was approved. El Paso Water Utilities will partner with the University of El Paso's Center for Inland Desalination and the Texas Water Development Board to develop an environment within the reverse osmosis membrane wherein the silica either will not precipitate, or if it does, have it precipitate in a form that will not stick to the membrane.
The Board also approved an Unsolicited research project titled Development of New Tracers for Determining Travel Time Near MAR Operations. This study will evaluate two alternative tracers to determine subsurface travel times near manage aquifer recharge (MAR) sites. The Principal Investigator is Jordan F. Clark of the University of California, Santa Barbara.