The One Health and Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Hubs have partnered to form a global network focused on advancing the circular water economy for small and rural communities.
The program is led by Matt Schrenk and builds on related work by Wei Liao, director of the Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center (ADREC), with key leadership from Stephen Gasteyer, who brings critical insights through a social science lens. (See: Mueller, J.T., & Gasteyer, S. [2023]. The ethnically and racially uneven role of water infrastructure spending in rural economic development. Nature Water, 1, 74–82. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-022-00007-y)
Core MSU faculty collaborators include:
- Amber Pearson (public health)
- Elizabeth Mack (economic development, water affordability)
- Joan Rose (microbiology)
- Sriram Narayanan (supply chain)
- Leo Zulu (political ecology)
International partners include:
- Roy Brouwer (water resource economics, Canada)
- Jiuhui Qu (water and wastewater technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Water technology groups from the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore
Resource recovery facilities are being developed or studied in Costa Rica, New Zealand, Nepal, and South Africa. The team is also conducting work in Michigan.