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Webinar 1: Industrial Water Needs and Wastewater Management Challenges
| 29 April 2021

(Webinar Series on Industrial Water and Wastewater Management Challenges and Solutions)

The webinar series on "Industrial Water and Wastewater Management Challenges and Solutions" was jointly organized by the Joint Research and Demonstration Center for Water Technology (JRDC), Sri Lanka, Faculty of Engineering (NSF-NSFC project), University of Peradeniya, and the Water: Effective Technologies and Tools (WETT) Research Centre RMIT University, Australia through the support of the International Relations Office, University of Peradeniya. This webinar series targeted the local industries and aimed to identify prevailing water management issues and discuss sustainable solutions.

The first webinar, “Industrial Water Needs and Wastewater Management Challenges” was held on 29th April 2021 at 10 AM Sri Lanka (GMT+5:30). Two eminent resource persons, Prof. Jega Jegatheesan, a Professor of Environmental Engineering, Director of Water: Effective Technologies and Tools (WETT) Research Centre, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia and Prof. Yuansong Wei, a Professor and the Director of Laboratory of Water Pollution Control Technology, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China shared their expertise at the session. Prof. Jegatheesan delivered the first talk on “Tools and techniques to implement integrated Industrial water management” and the second talk on “Application of Membrane Bioreactor in industrial Wastewater Treatment” was delivered by Prof. Wei. The discussion was moderated by Dr. C.S. Kalpage, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.