{"id":21739,"date":"2026-03-12T11:23:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=21739"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:07:38","slug":"cwr-travel-award","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/news\/cwr-travel-award\/","title":{"rendered":"CWR researcher received Water Travel Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"elementtoproof\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21746 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/IMG_1201_SnapseedCopy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/IMG_1201_SnapseedCopy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/IMG_1201_SnapseedCopy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/IMG_1201_SnapseedCopy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/IMG_1201_SnapseedCopy-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/IMG_1201_SnapseedCopy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/IMG_1201_SnapseedCopy-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/>Dr. Xia Zhengang, R<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">esearch Fellow at the Centre for Water Research (CWR), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), supervised by Prof. Hu Jiangyong, has been honoured with the <i>Water<\/i> Travel Award. Selected as one of three awardees globally, Dr. Xia is also the only award recipient from Asia. This award demonstrates the achievement of his work in novel bioprocess for wastewater treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><i>Water <\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Travel Award was launched in 2018, and it is presented to three awardees every year to encourage junior scientists to present their latest novel research at academic conferences in the field of all aspects of water, including water science, technology, management, and governance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/water\/news-and-conferences\/news\/14512\">https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/water\/news-and-conferences\/news\/14512<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Xia Zhengang, Research Fellow at CWR, supervised by Prof. Hu Jiangyong, is honoured with Travel Award from Water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":21746,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[69],"class_list":["post-21739","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-cwr-awards"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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