VT-CAWRI aims to provide a platform for industrial-funded projects focusing on applied water research, and to strengthen the collaboration between Virginia Tech and water/wastewater industry. Virginia Tech has many researchers performing water-related research across the departments and colleges, and its Environmental Engineering program has a long tradition of excellence in water and wastewater research. VT-CAWRI will take advantages of the research strength on the campus and advance water research to address nexus of resource, water and energy. Research include:

• Aerobic granular sludge based wastewater treatment

• Bioenergy recovery from high-strength wastewater using anaerobic digestior

• Biofilm reactors and mathematical modeling

• Development of mainstream anammox coupled with carbon removal technologies

• Membrane technologies such as membrane bioreactors and forward osmosis

• Production of biofuels and bioproducts from cellulose biomass

• Sidestream nutrient removal by nitritation and anammox

• Sustainable desalination and water softening