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<p>We decided to delve into the policy related to our project. Our exploratory research, public outreach events, interactions with different stakeholders, and other human practice activities culminated in a public policy draft targeted toward the Houston City Council. In this policy draft, we advocated for adjusting regulations on CrVI to levels that better ensure the safety of Houstonians and presented the advantages of implementing our genetically engineered organism into the city's water treatment systems to help achieve lower CrVI levels. In the process of creating the policy proposal, we realized changing some aspects of our project's design would allow for easier adoption by the city and its constituents (e.g. our choice to switch from groundwater to wastewater treatment and our choice to ultimately use our circuit in Shewanella oneidensis).</p>
 
<p>We decided to delve into the policy related to our project. Our exploratory research, public outreach events, interactions with different stakeholders, and other human practice activities culminated in a public policy draft targeted toward the Houston City Council. In this policy draft, we advocated for adjusting regulations on CrVI to levels that better ensure the safety of Houstonians and presented the advantages of implementing our genetically engineered organism into the city's water treatment systems to help achieve lower CrVI levels. In the process of creating the policy proposal, we realized changing some aspects of our project's design would allow for easier adoption by the city and its constituents (e.g. our choice to switch from groundwater to wastewater treatment and our choice to ultimately use our circuit in Shewanella oneidensis).</p>
 
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