Water Research
Water research conducted at EPA provides the science and tools necessary to develop sustainable solutions to 21st century water resource problems, ensuring water quality and availability in order to protect human and ecosystem health.
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Water and Climate
Research examines the impacts of global climate change on water availability, quality, and flow patterns.
Science Matters: Saving our Estuaries: EPA's Climate Ready Estuaries Program Plans Ahead
Science Matters: Climate Change and Aquatic Invasive Species
Global Change Impacts & Adaptation
Water Resource Adaptation Program
Water and Energy
Research investigates water resources that are pressured by increasing demands for energy and mineral resources.
Hydraulic Fracturing Research
Mountaintop Mining Research
Harnessing Water, Waste and Energy Systems for Sustainability
Watershed Protection
Researchers work to sustain and restore natural water resources by viewing them as complex watershed systems.
Sustainable Watershed Management
Biological Indicators of Watershed Health
Watersheds/Green Infrastructure
Ecological Exposure Research: Water
Sustainable Water Infrastructure
Research addresses the difficult tasks of operating, maintaining and renewing the pipes and facilities that treat our water and move it from place to place.
Water Treatment and Transport Research
Green Infrastructure Research
Aging Water Infrastructure Research
Science Matters: Aging Water Infrastructure
Chemical and Microbial Risk
Research focuses on water contaminants to promote safe recreational waters, maintain healthy water resources, and prepare for potential terrorist threats.
Recreational Waters Research
Contaminants and Industrial Processes Research
Water Security Research
Microbiological and Chemical Exposure Assessment: Water
Nutrients Management
Researchers are exploring innovative solutions to the threat of excess nutrient pollution in the Nation’s waters.
Nitrogen Mapping
Advanced Nutrient Monitoring
Nitrogen Deposition and Nutrient Modeling
Nutrient Recovery
Health and Water
Waterborne illnesses continue to threaten the health of the American public from sewer overflows and waterborne pathogens.
Saliva-Based Exposure Assays for Detecting Exposure to Waterborne Pathogens
Detecting Waterborne Enteroviruses and Noroviruses
Relative Risk of Pharmaceuticals in Waste Water
Science Matters: A Major Step Towards Cleaner Water and Soil
Models, Databases and Tools
Researchers provide sophisticated models and tools that are widely used to manage and protect water resources across the Nation.
Watershed Models
Water Quality Models
Hydrodynamic Models
Stormwater Management (SWMM)
Grants and Funding for Water Research
EPA provides grants and funding to the Nation’s leading researchers in academia and small businesses to improve the scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues.
Aquatic Ecosystems Grants
Drinking Water Grants
Water and Watersheds Grants
Chesapeake Bay Grants
Other Research Topics
Top Three Questions/Tasks
What's New
Subscribe to Water Research Updates
Science Matters Newsletter Focuses on Water Research
Freshwater Biological Traits Database and Report
Narragansett Bay Sustainability Pilot, Phase I Report (PDF) (26 pp, 1.4MB)
Narragansett Bay Sustainability Pilot, Appendices (PDF) (27 pp, 1.2MB)
Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (PDF) (2 pp, 510KB)
Related Links
- Clean Water Act Summary
- Water Quality Criteria
- Drinking Water Contaminants
- Drinking Water Standards and Health Advisory Tables
- Water & Energy Efficiency
- Green Infrastructure
- Watersheds
- Climate Ready Estuaries
- Estuaries and Coastal Watersheds
- Climate Change and Water
- Coastal Zones and Sea Level Rise
- US Global Change Research Program