EPA Awards $1M To U of I For COVID-19 Research on Wastewater Systems

EPA Awards $1M To U of I For COVID-19 Research on Wastewater Systems

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding one-million-dollars in research grant funding to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The funds will be used to improve wastewater monitoring to rapidly detect the emergence and spread of infectious disease during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers from the University of Illinois also plan to develop a system to rank locations where wastewater monitoring should take place to detect disease-causing pathogens.