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What is a Technology Roadmap?
Technology Roadmaps help us take a deep dive and learn about the current state-of-the-art processes and innovations occurring within the field, as well as highlight technical challenges and identify promising upcoming technologies.
Why use it? It gives our research clear direction, allowing us to generate actionable goals to achieve our mission for securing Arizona’s water future.
The creation process
To create a Technology Roadmap for a specific area, we bring together professionals in their respective fields over several workshops to share their knowledge and experience. Through each workshop, we can identify water supply and quality challenges, needs and current hindrances of technology through collaborative discussion.
The final product is a summarized report that helps us understand what research project themes to prioritize and create targeted testbed infrastructure opportunities where ASU faculty and researchers can discover and demonstrate new technologies.
Workshop feedback results in a Technology Roadmap covering:
- State of the Field
- Cost Drivers
- Technical Challenges and Barriers
- Technology Gaps and Needs
Each Technology Roadmap ensures our work can
deliver value and localized impact specific to Arizona.
Explore our focus areas by clicking on the tiles below.
Technology Roadmap: Executive Summary
Provides background on what informs our research focus.
Technology Roadmap: Atmospheric Water Extraction (AWE)
Learn why AWE is explored as a water resource and how it works.
Technology Roadmap: Brackish Groundwater
Context on the purification challenges and why improvement is imperative.
Technology Roadmap: Industrial Water
More on how Ultra-Pure-Water can create water waste and technological opportunities for on-site re-use.
Technology Roadmap: Sea of Cortez Desalination
Explores the possibility of sea desalination as a water source while examining the barriers and solutions.