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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago provides comprehensive wastewater services to an equivalent population of 10.1 million people in an 872 square mile service area that includes the City of Chicago and 124 suburban communities.


Sandia National Laboratories is a government-owned, contractor-operated, facility of the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration founded in 1949. The goal of Sandia Laboratories is to become the laboratory that the U.S. turns to first for technology solutions to the most challenging problems that threaten peace and freedom for our nation and the globe. Visit the Sandia website.


The National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) is a division of the US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development with its headquarters in Cincinnati OH. The mission of NRMRL is to develop ways to prevent and reduce pollution of air, land, and water; and to restore ecosystems. Visit the NRMRL website.


The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense.... With an annual budget of about $5.5 billion, we are the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing. The WaterCAMPWS is one of the Science and Technology Centers funded by the NSF. Visit the NSF website.