Paul L. Busch Award

Paul L Busch Award The WERF Endowment for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research presents the Paul L. Busch Award each year at WEFTEC. The award carries with it a $100,000 grant and recognizes outstanding individuals or teams who are conducting ground-breaking research that will lead to practical solutions to water quality problems.

The Paul L. Busch Award is presented each year by The WERF Endowment for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research. Through this award, the Endowment recognizes outstanding individuals or teams whose ongoing efforts contribute significantly to water quality research and its practical application in the water environment. The annual grant of $100,000 seeks to support and promote work that will bring new benefits to the water quality community (utilities, industries, environmental firms) and the water-using public they serve.

While other fields such as information distribution and medicine have made quantum leaps forward by devising and implementing new technology, environmental science—and water quality science in particular—has subsisted on advances made decades (or even centuries) ago. With each passing year, there is greater need for solutions to important environmental issues, embodied in rapid, imaginative, technological innovation.

The WERF Endowment was created to encourage development of technological innovation and scientific research that improve the water environment in a sustainable manner. It is towards this end that the Endowment Awards Committee evaluates nominations and applications for this and other annual awards, striving to support the most creative advances in water quality research.

If you would like to make a contribution to the WERF Endowment for Applied Water Quality Research, please contact Jane Knecht at jknecht@werf.org or 703-684-2474.

WERF research examines the social, economic, and environmental aspects of challenges confronting wastewater and stormwater facilities.