6位国内领军水污染控制专家recently launched the initiative to establish China's first sewage treatment concept factory project. Currently, there are over 3,800 urban sewage treatment plants in China, with a total processing capacity comparable to that of the United States. However, they still face numerous outstanding issues such as high energy consumption during processing and excessive sludge production, which cannot meet water environmental standards.
At the beginning of this year, six renowned experts in the field of water pollution control - Cui Juhui, Wang Kaijun, Wang Hongchen, Yu Gang, Ke Bing and Yu Hanqing - founded the "Expert Committee on Urban Sewage Treatment Concept Factories in China", aiming to apply global cutting-edge concepts and advanced technologies within five years to construct and put into operation one or three sewage treatment concept factories.
"The concept factory will be built with sustainability of water quality as its goal," said Cui Juhui from Chinese Academy of Engineering. "It will represent future directions for water science and technology." The committee hopes that these concept factories can reduce society's energy consumption by 1%.
The expert added that these conceptual factories would showcase China's advanced wastewater treatment technologies abroad. According to Wang Jingnan from National Environmental Protection Department Environment Planning Institute (the former name), a deputy director general who is also a chief engineer: "Conceptual factories are very meaningful explorations."
He suggested that not only should internal rate of return be calculated for wastewater plants based on aspects like energy savings and material recycling but also carbon neutrality should be considered while designing low-carbon elements into them.
As for Beijing specifically (as an example), it had 41 large-scale urban sewage treatment plants and 50 small-scale ones by December 2012; their daily processing capacity reached nearly 389 million cubic meters per day. By completing construction projects such as another set-up of recycled water facilities covering an area about half-a-hectare each along with new sewer lines extending over approximately two kilometers more than currently existing ones by May next year coupled with upgrading infrastructure across all major neighborhoods under its jurisdiction within five years from now while bringing together multiple stakeholders working towards common goals including improving public awareness regarding proper waste disposal methods coupled with establishing efficient communication channels between citizens government agencies & private businesses promoting innovation through collaboration among various sectors whilst encouraging research development & implementation innovative solutions tailored towards addressing local challenges etc., Beijing aims at achieving a higher standard compared to what was achieved earlier i.e., making sure every single household has access clean drinking-water without needing any additional equipment beyond basic plumbing setups even though some residents have already expressed dissatisfaction concerning certain areas' maintenance quality performance levels based upon feedback collected through surveys conducted amongst users themselves so there might need further improvements made before reaching optimal results overall especially considering factors such as safety hygiene efficiency cost-effectiveness scalability adaptability resilience durability aesthetics appeal potential long-term benefits etcetera.
In conclusion although we've come quite far since then however much more work remains ahead us if we want achieve our ambitious targets effectively efficiently sustainably responsibly protecting our environment ensuring health well-being everyone living here around world today tomorrow future generations yet unborn alike.
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