The WATERS Network: An. Integrated Environmental Observatory Network for Water Research.

The article reports on reusing treated wastewater to augment existing freshwater supplies in the U.S. To address the growing crisis, it stated that the existing engineering and scientific knowledge base must be enhanced to provide improved input to decision makers. A new joint initiative of the environmental engineering and hydrologic sciences research communities, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation (NSF), is proposing to build a national platform for real-time environmental observations with distributed networked sensing and data mining techniques. INSETS: High-resolution river observations in central California;Distributed sensor networks and environmental....