Zeta_Metroid ,

No, because for instance natural disease causing agents wont be removed with any watershed management. For example, the Schistosoma parasite will still be passed, which with cheap carbon nanofilters, makes biologically save water, pooring the bucket in from the suspect water. Whilst, who's going to bet on a one horse race?

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P.S. Clear water is not Clean water, fit to be put out the water tap ;>)

C4CW is looking at producing clean drinking water, not cleaning runoff from industrial and agricultural sites and other sources of water-borne pollutants that make their way out into an ecosystem. This project is looking at how some variables might affect the health of the Chesapeake Bay.

While they are both "water" projects, they're looking at totally different aspects and locations.

Are you kidding ? A few million dollars ?
Have you actually been to the Chesapeake Bay ?
The surface area of the bay and its major tributaries is 4,479 square miles.
A few Billion dollars would barely make a dent.
It would take many millions and probably Billions just to set up filtering plants.
Besides C4CW is about cleaning pollutants from water.
CFSW is about minimizing the pollutants we put into the water.
I would say BOTH have equally important goals.
Filtering the entire Atlantic ocean would be an insurmountable job.
It makes much more sense to avoid polluting the ocean in the first place.
They might find ways to filter drinking water but what about all the sea life that live
in the oceans and the contaminants we eat from the fish and other seafoods ?
Both projects are equally important.

tomast:

Even if it takes several billion dollars, the Virginia annual budget is about 37 billion per year. Almost 15 billion of that is spent on a counterproductive "education" system. So Virginia has billions to spare for it.
This project doesn't give us an actual solution like Computer for Clean Water does, it just gives us a model of the problem (that doesn't even take into account the soon coming solution)