Fellows mentioned in this story: Stuart Coleman
From Hawai‘i Public Radio:
A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa pilot program to test new wastewater technologies may lose out on more than half a million dollars in state funding due to a miscommunication about when the money needed to be spent.
Last year, state lawmakers passed House Bill 736, directing about $745,000 to the University of Hawaiʻi’s Water Resources Research Center to develop cheaper ways to manage wastewater.
Hawaiʻi needs to eliminate about 80,000 cesspools by 2050, but the cost of converting cesspools to compliant systems is beyond the means of many homeowners.
Stuart Coleman, the executive director of Wastewater Alternatives and Innovations, said the pilot program was intended to produce new technology that could drive conversion costs down.
“This testing center was exactly what we needed,” he said to HPR.
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