2010 will be the year China embraces "toilet-to-tap" water treatment technology, predicts environmental engineering professor Siqing Xia. Until then, he continues to educate the public about the technology's benefits through a unique demonstration project at Tongji University in Shanghai. His small-scale, 400 liter per day (L/day) treatment plant on the Tongji University campus turns wastewater from the College of Environmental Science and Engineering's lab building into pure water for scientific procedures and irrigation of the surrounding land- scape.
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