Modeling Water Quality Between Upstream Sources and Municipal Drinking Water
Project Description
Modeling Water Quality Between Upstream Sources and Municipal Drinking Water
A partnership with Kansas Department of Health and Environment to understand and address a key community challenge.
Project Details
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Community Partner: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Data Categories: Natural Science Keywords: Water Quality Data Type: Tabular Data
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Project Year: 2024
Project Resources
The Challenge
This project seeks an economic model to establish the cost municipalities face in cleaning their water. Municipal water sources come from surface water and from groundwater. They must treat the drinking water in order to ensure that water’s safety for human consumption. Given that the sources of water for different municipalities may come with varying levels of characteristics in the water, municipalities face different costs to ensure safety. To better understand these varying costs, it is important to model how levels of characteristics in water sources relate to levels of those same characteristics that appear on the CCRs for municipal drinking water.