Assistant Professor Jordan Kanter received a SPARC grant in partnership with Professors Carolina Aragon (Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning) and Eve Vogel (Earth, Geographic & Climate Sciences) for a project titled, "Solar Canals: Transforming Water Systems for a Sustainable Energy Future in the American West". This project has also received support from the UMass Faculty Research/Healey Endowment Grant program. Kanter and team will explore tactics to bring existing Arizona water infrastructure into a more productive and intimate contact with its human and ecological context. The project builds on research into canal spanning solar power and its potential to address the significant carbon footprint of water systems while reducing the negative effects of solar development. This research aims to fill a gap between technical innovation and the social and ecological impact of infrastructure development.