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Days before Louisiana water districts can apply for aid, program guidelines are incomplete
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Louisiana governments are expected to apply for aid to fix their water systems Aug 1, but the applications aren t yet ready
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This story was co-published with the Louisiana Illuminator.
As far back as Fannie King, 39, can remember, there have been problems with the drinking water in Tallulah, a small city in northeastern Louisiana. King s experienced water outages, discolored water and backups that cause the water to drain slowly. “As long as I’ve been living, there’s always been a complaint about what they were going to do,” she said. “The piping system that runs through Tallulah is so old in the residential areas.”
The problems with Tallulah s drinking water system are not unique, but they’re among the worst in Louisiana when it comes to frequent water disruptions. The Illuminator and WWNO/WRKF analyzed a year’s worth of boil water notices throughout the state to get a glimpse of the problems plaguing rural water systems. Boil water notices are issued when there’s a drop in pressure in the water usually from a break in a pipe that could allow contaminants to enter the system.
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Rice University computational and applied mathematician Beatrice Riviere has been selected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Riviere is among 28 new fellows announced this week by the 14,000-member society.
Selection as a fellow is an honor the society reserves for its most distinguished members. Riviere, Rice’s Noah Harding Chair and Professor in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, was selected for “contributions in numerical analysis, scientific computing and modeling of porous media.”
Much of Riviere’s research involves developing accurate and efficient algorithms to model flow and transport in porous media, as well as studying aspects of numerical analysis, partial differential equations, discontinuous Galerkin methods, computational fluid dynamics and mathematical biology. She is the author of more than 100 scientific publications in numerical analysis and scientific computation, and her book on the th