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Ban Ki-moon pays a visit to Changyi NEWater of BEWG 2018-07-11
On July 11, 2018, Ban Ki-moon, the eighth secretary general of the United Nations who attends the “Singapore International Water Week” in Singapore, paid a visit to Changyi NEWater of BEWG, with the accompany of Kim Bong-hyun, the South Korean ambassador to Singapore, Frank Rijsberman, the director general of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and Richard Hoo, the deputy director of Singapore`s Public Utilities Board (PUB), and heard the introduction to overall situation of BEWG and the NEWater, came to the site and inspected the production situation and tasted the new water on the production line.
The United Nations is very concerned about the cyclic utilization of water resources to solve the major problems in the development of human society. Ban Ki-moon encouraged BEWG to continue to expand the new water business to make greater contributions for solving the global water resource issues.
Yang Guang, senior vice president of BEWG, Wang Kaijun, dean of Tsinghua University-Joint Institute for Environment Industry of BEWG and professor of the School of Environment- Tsinghua University, Feng Yanxia, executive vice-president of BEWG Water Environment Research Institute, as well as Zhou Xinping, CEO of Singapore Project Concession Company, Shan Feng, operation director, etc. accompanied the visit.
Singapore has implemented a strict high-standard water resources management system to address the problem of water resources shortage in Singapore. Changyi NEWater project of BEWG is the largest new water plant in Singapore, which has a design capacity of 228,000 tons/day, and the production volume of new water accounts for more than 30% of Singapore`s new water. The water plant adopts double-membrane process (microfiltration + reverse osmosis) for advanced treatment and can provide high quality industrial water and tap water supply to Singapore through the international leading process, automatic control design and fine operation management, which is a model of cyclic utilization of water resources.
The United Nations is very concerned about the cyclic utilization of water resources to solve the major problems in the development of human society. Ban Ki-moon encouraged BEWG to continue to expand the new water business to make greater contributions for solving the global water resource issues.
Yang Guang, senior vice president of BEWG, Wang Kaijun, dean of Tsinghua University-Joint Institute for Environment Industry of BEWG and professor of the School of Environment- Tsinghua University, Feng Yanxia, executive vice-president of BEWG Water Environment Research Institute, as well as Zhou Xinping, CEO of Singapore Project Concession Company, Shan Feng, operation director, etc. accompanied the visit.
Singapore has implemented a strict high-standard water resources management system to address the problem of water resources shortage in Singapore. Changyi NEWater project of BEWG is the largest new water plant in Singapore, which has a design capacity of 228,000 tons/day, and the production volume of new water accounts for more than 30% of Singapore`s new water. The water plant adopts double-membrane process (microfiltration + reverse osmosis) for advanced treatment and can provide high quality industrial water and tap water supply to Singapore through the international leading process, automatic control design and fine operation management, which is a model of cyclic utilization of water resources.
