### id263942020 studying pathogens in water pipes is undervalued > **[Siddhartha Roy](https://www.siddhartharoy.org/), $25,000,** for citizen surveillance of pathogens in drinking water. Some pathogens, notably legionella, grow in water pipes. There's not a lot of scientific or legal structure for monitoring them, and this team wants to solve this by sending kits to volunteer citizens who will use them to test their tap water. This is useful for avoiding legionella outbreaks, but my reviewers were most impressed by its ability to scale to other things and raise citizen awareness of pathogen detection. Dr. Roy is a Virginia Tech research scientist who helped uncover the Flint water crisis. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fr478vtbbjbbkpw9r95pz40s) - [[ACX Grants Results by Scott Alexander#id263942020 studying pathogens in water pipes is undervalued|View in Vault]] - [n] This is a neat idea for the [[The Architect]] priest story, maybe involving [[Irella]] with her [[Civil Mage]] precursor duties story that I really need to name and start #xref synthesizing.