Japan's NEDO Aims to Solve Global Water Problems with New Water Recycling Technology

The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in Japan announced on July 2, 2009, the details of its Water-Saving and Sustainable Water Recycling Project, which is aimed at addressing global water and energy problems by spreading water-saving and sustainable water resource management technology at home and abroad, as well as improving Japan's strength in water treatment technology.

The world's freshwater resources are very unevenly distributed and are finite in quantity. Plus there is growing concern that water problems are becoming critical because of a worldwide water supply-demand imbalance, due to problems such as contamination of aquatic environments. NEDO has plans in place for the new technologies to be widely introduced for the treatment of tap water, sewage, and industrial wastewater. However, there is an urgent need to develop and spread innovative materials, processes, operational and control technologies for recycling water and saving energy, because the new technologies require a large amount of energy.

With the goal of establishing water-saving and sustainable water-recycling systems that will help solve the world's water and energy problems, under the project NEDO plans to develop its elemental technology and water-recycling control technology using an estimated budget of 1.1 billion yen (about US$12.2 million) per year during the five-year period from fiscal 2009 to 2013, working in cooperation with twenty contracted companies and organizations.

Japanese Technology to Help Address Global Water Problems　（Related JFS article）
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