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On 10-11 October 2022, the National University of Battambang (NUBB) hosted the national Green Conference entitled “Incorporating green concept in Cambodian higher education”, which aimed (i) to raise the green awareness of Cambodian higher education institutions toward the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and (ii) to strengthen development ecosystem between HEIs with the private sectors, government […]

Dr. CHHUON Kong, Dean of the Faculty of Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering at Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), described the programs of education on Water and Environmental Engineering at ITC.   He also shared his educational background with interest on the engineering solution for water and environmental issues. He talked about his daily […]

On Nov. 04, 2022 at National University of Laos (NUOL) in Vientiane Capital of Laos, there will be an annual event called National Research Forum. This year it will be the 9th forum under the title ” Sciences, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development”. At the event, INOWASIA-NUOL members will present INOWASIA poster and brochures. […]

Groundwater is typically regarded as a reliable and accessible source of water use in the coastal zone of Cambodia. The hydrogeochemical evolution of groundwater in the coastal area of Sihanoukville is of concern the local people since Sihanoukville is undergoing tremendous urbanization and estimated to reach water scarcity in this region. Thus, the aim of […]

Water Oriented Living Labs (WOLLs) for the six university partners in Asian Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) involved in INOWASIA project will be realized soon by the end of this year. A WOLL is real-life, water-oriented demo and platform-type environments with a cross-sector nexus approach, which have the involvement and commitment of multi-stakeholders. Then WOLLs provide […]

According to the United Nations, 2.2 billion of people living with lack of clean water, and 4.4 billion of people with limited access to clean water. By 2030, 60 nations seriously lack of clean water while 3.6 million deaths due to diseases related to water pollution. According to a recent report, about 20% of the […]

neOCampus filter platform for wastewater treatment on the campus of Toulouse University was built during June 2022 by EPURTEK. This Constructed Wetland (or Filtre Planté Végétalisé) is now waiting for sensors setting before to get planted inside with phragmites. The completed filter celebration should happen during November 2022.   Around this constructed wetland, almost 25 […]

How to measure the water quality regulation service as an in-stream natural service delivery that help to epurate the water ?  The efficiency of this service will depend on the naturalness of the stream or the river, that will be the highest with well conserved ecosystems. Here below a short video of an experimental survey […]

Dr. Rodriguez-Roda, the IP of INOWASIA, was invited to the European Institute of Membranes of Montpellier/France from the Université de Montpellier to talk about the Erasmus+ project INOWASIA. There was a lot of interest in the innovative methodology for teaching Problem-based learning, where the student is put on the forefront of the learning process and the teachers becomes a […]

On Monday 26 of September 2022, Dr. Ignasi Rodriguez-Roda, scientific coordinator of the project, gave a class about #PBL (Problem-Based Learning) methodology to some teachers and technicians from #UT3. This way there are new teachers with membranes and IoT expertise who understand better the methodology and will try to prepare some PBL material for the […]