Water management in Hong Kong underpins the very fabric of our daily lives. Insufficient fresh water supply in Hong Kong has been a matter of long-term concern. Water pipe leakage, unmetered usage and incorrect metering accounted more than 15% of water loss. There is also an increasing call for reclaiming water as well as improving wastewater treatment efficiency to raise our city’s water sustainability. In this “Building Resilience through Sustainable Urban Water Management” event, Guest speakers (Prof. Mirjam Blokker and Prof. Merle de Kreuk) from the Netherlands will introduce the latest technologies to address the above challenges. Prof. Christine Loh of Institute for the Environment (IENV) and Ir. Prof. Irene Lo of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for the Advanced Study (IAS) will also lead the discussions with various speakers including delegates from HKSAR Government (Drainage Services Department, Water Supplies Department and potentially the Environmental Protection Department) on how to together to improve the overall urban water management system for a stronger water resilience policy future.
The following lecture in this meeting is sponsored by IAS:
Water Resources Systems and Climate Risks to Water Supply
Time
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4:00 - 4:20 pm
Speaker
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Prof. Merle DE KREUK, Professor of Environmental Technology, Delft University of Technology
About the speaker
Prof. Merle de Kreuk obtained her PhD in environmental biotechnology at Delft University of Technology in 2006. After earning her PhD, Prof. de Kreuk spent a few years bridging academic research with full-scale development of Nereda at Royal Haskoning DHV. Beginning in 2009, she worked for almost three years at a Dutch Water Authority, where she started a project on the application of Anammox in the mainstream of a wastewater treatment plant. In 2011, she returned to TU Delft, where she focuses on granule formation processes (aerobic and anaerobic) and hydrolysis processes in anaerobic digestion. Furthermore, she is still interested in the product formation from waste streams by means of mixed microbial processes.
