Answering these questions will not be trivial, but doing so promises to advance the science and improve the practice towards more sustainable water resource management and protection of people and the planet.

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This diverse list of key research questions is not exhaustive; however, these priorities were generated in a transparent, bottom-up, multidisciplinary, and multi-sector manner.

In this highly unique manuscript, just published in Environmental Science & Technology, we aimed to understand, what are the priority scientific and management research questions for decentralized wastewater?

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Working with NOWRA, our partners with WRF, NEHA, SORA, NAWT, and other practitioners and researchers from business, academia, local, state and federal agencies, and non-governmental organizations, we launched the Needs for Onsite Wastewater Recycling Research (NOW-R2) Initiative.

Though decentralized water, wastewater and reuse remains critical for so many around the world, and will increase in the future, it is often overlooked, under appreciated, and under supported, particularly for people in rural regions.