Sustainable Water Extraction on Campus
SDG 6.5.4
In our effort to address water security issues within the city and maintain supply of quality water for potable purposes, the University has explored an alternative water supply source. This state-of-the-art water treatment facility within the township allows the University to reduce reliance on water from municipal sources.
The state-of-the-art water treatment process adopts a hybrid of ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis processes to meet the quality standards of potable drinking water. The water treatment plant can operate at a full capacity of 8.5 million litres per day. Based on the World Health Organisation’s recommendation of 165 litres per person per day, this amount is sufficient to serve water consumption needs of about 51,500 people.
The University has also implemented rainwater harvesting systems since 2017 to reduce constraint on the limited clean water for human consumption. The rainwater is used for landscape maintenance and cleaning outdoor campus ground areas. Since year 2020, the education group saved a total of 817m3 of water through rainwater harvesting annually.
