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FROM TREATMENT TO TAP: DISCOVERING THE SECRETS OF PATHOGEN SURVIVAL IN DRINKING WATER SYSTEMS
Pitt Assistant Professor Sarah Haig receives a CAREER award to improve the treatment processes for drinking water
Before it even touches our lips, drinking water is purified through a series of processes referred to as the ¡°treatment train¡± at a centralized treatment plant. Utilities then add a disinfectant like chlorine or chloramine to the water to control the regrowth of microorganisms in both the distribution system and building plumbing.
Despite these treatments, drinking water that meets state and federal regulations still contains many types of bacteria. Though most surviving bacteria are harmless, some like drinking water-associated pathogens (DWPIs), which predominantly impact the immunocompromised, cause more than 145,000 human infections annually and cost the United States billions in healthcare costs.
Sarah Haig, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, received a $550,000 Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to learn how some DWPIs can survive drinking water treatment processes and determine better treatment processes to stop them from entering the human body.
According to NSF, the CAREER award is its ¡°most prestigious in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.¡±
¡°Dr. Haig transcends disciplinary boundaries of engineering and biology with ease and has fostered several lasting collaborations in the medical, public health, and civil engineering disciplines here at the University of Pittsburgh,¡± said Radisav Vidic, Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor and Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering. ¡°In addition to her strengths in research, Dr. Haig is very active in our department¡¯s efforts to develop the curriculum for the undergraduate and graduate environmental engineering program, adding both wet and computer laboratory classes into all of her courses.¡±
The Dangers of DWPIs
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