During April 4 to 7, 2018, CWEG, the member unit of the Sino-German Centre for Water And healTh researCH (WATCH), and the Development and Assessment Institute in Waste Water Technology at RWTH-Aachen University (hereinafter referred to as “PIA”), jointly held the Seminar on Decentralized Rural Wastewater Treatment Technology in Chengdu, China. Through friendly negotiation, CWEG Chairman Hou Feng and PIA Director Dr. Elmar Dorgeloh signed the Memorandum of Understanding on jointly building the decentralized wastewater treatment facility testing and assessment platform in China.

CWEG Chairman Hou Feng and PIA Director Dr. Elmar Dorgeloh signed the Memorandum of Understanding

   Acknowledged by PIA as a mutually-beneficial and win-win cooperation platform for both sides in China, the platform will equip itself with wastewater treatment facility testing capability partly by introducing multiple decentralized wastewater treatment technology quality standards from Europe, the United States and Japan, and on this basis, help drive the establishment of China’s own assessment method and quality standard for decentralized wastewater treatment technology.
     During the seminar, Dr. Elmar Dorgeloh and Martina Defrain - the head of PIA Water Reuse Department, visited CWEG’s Guang’an Underground WWTP, Guang’an Decentralized Rural Wastewater Treatment Station, and the site of the Inkstone Washing Pond (located at Deng Xiaoping's hometown) Ecological Restoration project, etc. They spoke highly of CWEG’s underground WWTP system and decentralized rural wastewater treatment technology, and were confident that the both sides can build China’s decentralized wastewater treatment facility testing and assessment platform into a worldwide exemplar relying on CWEG’s professional strength. 

PIA experts visited the Guang’an Underground WWTP

   Dr. Yao Gang from the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at RWTH-Aachen University, CWEG Beijing Technology R&D Center Deputy General Manager Dr. Pang Hongtao, R&D Specialist Yang Xiaoyu, CWEG Green Development Division Assistant General Manager Dr. Gan Lili, and Project Specialist Hu Peipei, etc. participated in the above events.