The 2025 S3 Sustainability Forum, jointly organized by Fudan University, the National University of Singapore, and Korea University, was held in Shanghai in May 2025. As a strategic collaboration among three universities founded in 1905, the S3 Forum aims to promote interdisciplinary research and education on sustainability. This year’s forum centered around the theme “AI

“Through this symposium, we hope to provide a platform for the community to share advances in sustainable development, promote idea exchange among experts from the industry, public sector, faculty, students and alumni, and foster future collaborations.” – Professor Hu Jiangyong, Programme Director for Environmental and Sustainability Engineering (ESE) and Director for the Centre for Water

Climate change is a growing challenge in the modern world, with its impacts intensifying over time and having profound effects on the global environment, particularly on water resources and treatment processes. As global temperatures continue to rise, water availability, quality, and the efficiency of water treatment processes are expected to face increasingly severe challenges. The

The IWA webinar on “Micro-pollutants Removal in Water Reclamation” was successfully held on January 23, 2025. The webinar was co-organized IWA ACHSWSG and WRSG, and co-moderated by Professor Hu Jiangyong, Chair of the IWA ACHSWSG, and Mr Josef Lahnsteiner, Chair of the IWA WRSG. Four invited speakers from Professor Li Wenwei (China), Assistant Professor Haruka

Prof. Cheng Shikun and Prof. Feng Yanhui and their undergraduate students in School of Energy and Environment from Beijing University of Science and Technology (BUST) visited CWR on 21 Aug. 2024. CWR Director Prof. Hu Jiangyong gave a talk on Env. Engineering programme in CEE, CDE and answered the questions from students and staff from

On the morning of March 22, 2024, the NUS Environmental Research Institute (NERI) and Centre for Water Research (CWR) at NUS Civil and Environmental Engineering jointly organized a Workshop on “Building Water Resilience through Research and Collaboration,” coinciding with the globally observed World Water Day. The workshop served as a platform to spotlight cutting-edge water-related research in critical areas such

Professor Jiangyong HU, Deputy Director of NERI and Director of the Centre for Water Research at NUS Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, delivered a compelling keynote speech on “Advance oxidation processes development for industrial wastewater treatment and reuse.” in the 5th International Water Association (IWA) Resource Recovery Conference, held in Shenzhen, China from November

Professor Li Aiming and his team from Nanjing University, China visited Center for Water Research at NUS on 13 Oct. 2023. Professor Hu Jiangyong and key members of CWR shared the R&D activities in CWR and showed the lab projects. both parties discussed about the potential collaboration in the future.

On 25th Aug. 2023, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduates School faculty members visited CWR at NUS. Prof Hu Jiangyong, Directors of Environmental Engineering programme and CWR, introduced the Environmental Engineering programme in NUS and showcased the CWR R&D activities. Launched in March of 2019, Tsinghua SIGS is a research and graduate education institution of Tsinghua University,

The Kent Ridge Alumni Family Day (KRAFD) themed ‘Welcome Back!’ was held on 13th August 2022. Centre for Water Research (CWR) is pleased to host lab visit for NUS community and alumni. CWR lab visit started with welcome and opening remark from Prof Hu Jiangyong. Prof Hu introduced CWR’s latest research innovations and activities to the

CWR researcher Dr Jothinathan Lakshimi (Research Fellow) entered into Falling Wall competition organized by Falling Walls Foundation gGmbH, Germany together with NUS research team (Prof. Hu Jiangyong (PI), Prof. Ong Say Leong (Co-PI) and Dr Cai Qingqin (team member) as finalist in Oct. 2020. Here is the video on the novel catalytic ozonation process developed

In July 2018, Centre for Water Research participated The Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) which was held from 9 to 11 July 2018 at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre by showcasing emerging and state-of-art water treatment technologies to government agencies, industry and public. One of showcases is a novel water purification system integrated