Washington, Sept. 14 -- Rep. Eli Crane issued the following news release:

U.S. Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03) and Representatives Greg Stanton (AZ-04) and U.S. Senators Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego today announced $2,062,000 in federal funding for Arizona State University to develop, test, and demonstrate innovative water reuse technologies designed for semiconductor manufacturing. The award, made through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), was secured as congressionally directed spending championed by the Arizona delegation.

The project will test emerging water treatment technologies and validate them at ASU's Macro Technology Works (MTW) facility in Tempe, generating the real-world performance data industry needs to adop...