The Water Research Foundation (WRF) is the water sector’s leading research organization, helping advance innovation and best practices across the industry. As a long-time WRF partner, CDM Smith leads and contributes to research on critical issues like PFAS.
CDM Smith’s collaboration with WRF helps drinking water and wastewater utilities by turning emerging research findings into practical tools, data and operational guidance. This information is critical for utilities that will be affected by new PFAS maximum contaminant levels. Much of the current work focuses on PFAS, water reuse, corrosion control, digital transformation and treatment optimization.
As part of an unprecedented series of sampling and investigative efforts led by WRF and CDM Smith, our researchers have been collecting and characterizing data from wastewater utilities across the U.S. Equipped with this new data, our scientists and engineers are engaged in a series of projects aimed at transforming emerging science into practical solutions for utilities.