Cleaner, greener water treatment technologies are transforming wastewater into valuable resources, with huge environmental and economic benefits.
Professor Yang Liu is the Chair of Sustainable Water Technologies and director of the $11.8 million Australian Research Council’s Hub in the Internet of Things for Water.
Her research aims to select natural microorganisms to perform treatments and detoxify contaminated environments, and to recover resources from waste materials.
“As we face significant climate and demographic changes, our urban water systems will need to adapt to more intense droughts, floods and fires,” Professor Liu said.
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