{"id":39752,"date":"2018-09-25T15:59:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T19:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=39752"},"modified":"2018-09-26T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T20:03:04","slug":"water-and-sanitation-challenges-in-appalachia-the-subject-of-wednesdays-suter-science-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/water-and-sanitation-challenges-in-appalachia-the-subject-of-wednesdays-suter-science-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Water and sanitation challenges in Appalachia the subject of Wednesday&#8217;s Suter Science Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leigh-Anne Krometis, associate professor in biological systems engineering at Virginia Tech., will present a <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/science-seminars\/\">Suter Science Seminar<\/a> at Eastern Mennonite University Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 4 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Krometis will discuss <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">water and sanitation impacts and challenges in Appalachia<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The seminar in Science Center Room 106 is free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite decades of investments in water infrastructure in the United States to protect public health, there remain communities in the Central Appalachian coalfields that struggle to secure safe drinking water and appropriate sanitation. Krometis will highlight ongoing research efforts to review the primary challenges inherent to Appalachian geography and history that render provision of centralized water treatment and adequate wastewater treatment difficult; describe the downstream ecological and human health impacts of straight-piping household wastewater; and discuss the motivations and potential health risks associated with reliance on spout springs for provision of potable water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Krometis has been working on issues of drinking water access and sanitation in the Appalachian coalfields for over eight years, funded by the National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Agriculture, and the Appalachian Research Initiative for Environmental Science. She is a steering committee member of the Virginia Tech Ecological and Human Health in Rural Communities Initiative, and the co-chair of the American Public Health Association\u2019s Building Healthy Communities committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She earned undergraduate and master\u2019s degrees in biological systems engineering from Virginia Tech, and completed her doctorate in environmental sciences and engineering at the University of North Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the second of five <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/science-seminars\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suter Science Seminars<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> this fall, which are made possible by the sponsorship of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/science-seminars\/daniel-b-suter-endowment\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daniel B. Suter Endowment in Biology<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the co-sponsorship of supporting programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next seminar is on Oct. 13, and features Dr. Trent Hummel on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/science-seminars\/docs\/Hummel-SuterScienceSeminarFlier2018-19.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Targeted Therapies in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology: Lessons from the Past, Hope for the Future<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leigh-Anne Krometis, associate professor in biological systems engineering at Virginia Tech., will present a Suter Science Seminar at Eastern Mennonite University Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 4 p.m. Krometis will discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/water-and-sanitation-challenges-in-appalachia-the-subject-of-wednesdays-suter-science-seminar\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Water and sanitation challenges in Appalachia the subject of Wednesday&#8217;s Suter Science Seminar<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5590,14184,5592,17364,5643,5600,14145,12579,6287,5708,7682],"tags":[],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-39752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-campus-guests","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-environmental-sustainability","category-nursing","category-peacebuilding-and-development","category-pre-professional-health","category-social-work","category-sustainability","category-suter-science-seminar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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