Nutrient-Energy-Water Cycles Group
We focus on understanding how the use and reuse of essential resources intersect with infrastructure and public health in both domestic and global settings.
We strive to influence transformative changes around N-E-W Cycles that improve livability and quality of life.
Through our work, we seek to connect, learn from, inform, and share knowledge with all collaborators and participants, both inside and outside of the University of Michigan.
Our disciplinary contributions use chemical, biological, data analytic, and engineering methods to better understand and develop efficient N-E-W Cycles within the built environment.
We are mindful of the historical contributions and impacts that N-E-W infrastructure systems have had on communities, and strive to employ principles of recognition, respect, equitable partnership, trust, transparency, and justice as we conduct our work.
Mission & Core Values
21st Century Infrastructure & Public Health Solutions
Evaluating
the fate of chemicals, pathogens and contaminants of emerging concern in water with relevance to public health and the environment.
Developing
approaches that enable local decision-making around water quality, water access, and resource efficiency .
Advancing
technologies to sense and remove constituents; and that recover useful resources from water.
Understanding
the water quality challenges of legacy cities with oversized water infrastructure and growing but under-resourced cities in the Global South.
“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Nancy G. Love
Ph.D., P.E., BCEE IWA Fellow, WEF Fellow, AEESP Fellow
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Michigan
Borchardt and Glysson Collegiate Professor
Co-Investigator, University of Michigan Environmental Biotechnology Lab
