[5] In 2016, the estate of Dr. Howard and Lottie Marcus made a donation of $400 million dollars to Ben-Gurion University, believed to be the largest gift ever to a university in Israel, with a portion of it going to the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research for research into water resources and desalination technologies.
[7] It also offers an MSc degree in Hydrology and Water Quality, in collaboration with the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies, which is located at BGU's Sde Boker Campus.
[9] Some of their particular research areas include flow and transport processes, remediation of contaminated water, and biological treatment of wastewater.
In the first, a study that was led by a team of researchers from the ZIWR and published in Nature Sustainability found that coronaviruses can persist in wastewater for several days, possibly leading to the spread of these viruses to humans.
[13][14] In another study, ZIWR researchers, in cooperation with scientists from Rice University in Houston, Texas, developed a laser-induced graphene technology that can filter airborne COVID-19 particles.