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Follow UsWater for All Grand Challenge: Large Scale Solutions to Water Scarcity
A third of the world's population lives in water-stressed countries.
Image: WaterAid/ Jon Spaull
Image: WaterAid/ Jon Spaull
Closing date for applications: 1200 on 29 September 2010.
In July 2010 an initial scoping workshop, attended by engineers, chemists, environmental scientists and water industry experts was run by the EPSRC Process, Environment and Sustainability (PES) Programme to identify possible research themes for a Grand Challenge in the area of ‘Water for All’.
One of the major challenges to be identified at the meeting involved exploring ‘Large Scale Solutions to Water Scarcity’ and this has therefore been adopted as the focus of this sandpit.
This sandpit will take forward the evolving research agenda in this area to bring fresh approaches to this challenge.
Applications are encouraged from diverse research areas across engineering, physical sciences, life sciences, the social sciences and the arts and humanities.
The challenge identified for the sandpit is Large scale solutions to water scarcity. A third of the world's population lives in water-stressed countries now. By 2025, this is expected to rise to two-thirds. When the problem of water stress is conflated by poor infrastructure and dense populations, the consequences can be devastating.
For more information:
- Download the call document (PDF 97.6KB) and expression of interest form (PDF 342KB)
- Visit www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/open/watersandpit/
- Contact waterforall@epsrc.ac.uk
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