[미국] 환경보호국, 제 3회 Campus RainWorks Challenge 개최

환경보호국인 제 3회 Campus RainWorks Challenge를 개최했다. Campus RainWorks Challenge는 대학생들이 우수 오염을 줄이고 기후변화를 회복하기 위해 국가의 물 기반 시설을 재창조하고 혁신적인 녹색기반시설 시스템을 개발하도록 하는 대회이다.

Campus RainWorks의 팀은 대학생, 대학원생, 학부 고문으로 구성되며 캠퍼스를 위한 녹색 기반 시설 프로젝트를 개발한다. 프로젝트에서는 어떻게 우수를 관리하여 지역사회와 환경에 혜택을 주는 자원으로 활용 할 것인지 보여줘야 한다.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching its third-annual Campus RainWorks Challenge, a competition created to engage college and university students in reinventing the nation's water infrastructure and developing innovative green infrastructure systems to reduce stormwater pollution and build resilience to climate change.

Through Campus RainWorks, teams of undergraduate and graduate students, working with a faculty advisor, develop a proposed green infrastructure project for the campus, showing how managing stormwater at its source can benefit the community and the environment.

Since 2012, Campus RainWorks has engaged more than 300 student teams in developing green infrastructure solutions to urban stormwater management. The contest encourages the use of green infrastructure projects on college and university campuses, trains the next generation of stormwater professionals, and develops new knowledge on the performance of green infrastructure.

Registration for the 2014 Challenge opens Sept. 2 and ends Oct. 3. Registrants must submit their entries by Dec. 19. Each winning team will earn a student prize of $1,000 to $2,000 divided evenly among student team members and a faculty prize of $2,000 to $3,000 to support green infrastructure research or training. EPA will announce winning entries in April 2015.

[출처 = Water World / 2014년 7월 24일]