An Overview of U. S. EPA and USDA Drinking Water Treatment System Demonstrations in China

Under an interagency agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. EPA has coordinated support for several water treatment research demonstrations in China. EPA has demonstrated several treatment technologies to improve water quality in small communities and has installed an immersed membrane water reuse system for a small brewery in China. U.S. EPA has also provided a water quality monitoring buoy and an automated weather station for monitoring of flood conditions (rainfall events) in a remote watershed. The weather station has been designed and built with a remote telemetry system to collect and submit real-time data on an hourly basis. This presentation will focus on interagency cooperation and cooperation between the U.S. and China during implementation and completion of these drinking water demonstrations.