Antimicrobial drinking water has improved over the years with less deaths from water contamination. Scientists and engineers have developed methods to produce larger volumes of water. However, to produce volumes of purified drinking water to accommodate billions of people is an everyday scientific process. Micro-organisms, also known as bio foulants, aggregate on surfaces in the membrane separation process of water treatment. The goal of this project is to use an electroconductive surface to control biofouling in the membrane separation process so that we can produce a massive volume of water without contaminants at a lower cost.

Rice University,  Nano-Enabled Water Treatment National Science Foundation (NSF) award #EEC-1449500

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Melissa Mason, Rice University, NEWT Center (2022), "Mr. Waters Takes a Bath at the NEWT Water Treatment Facility," https://nanohub.org/resources/36335.

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1. bio foulant
2. clean water
3. K-12
4. NanoEnabled Water Treatment (NEWT) ERC
5. Water
6. water purification/filtration