Under the impact of global climate change, tremendous land use land cover changes, and extensive human interventions, urban areas face grand challenges in water security and green development. Ensuring urban water security requires ensuring quality and quantity of drinking water, sanitation, human well-being, water productivity, socio-economic values, ecosystems and environmental health, and mitigating water-related hazards. To resolve urban water security-related issues, a systematic framework by linking natural and social water cycles is urgently needed. Professor Xia proposed the “Urban Water System, version 5.0” featuring “water quantity-quality-ecology” system approach by linking urban systems with natural river basin systems and applied it to the smart basin management, flash flood forecasting, and disaster mitigation. Besides, Professor Xia led the development of the “Yangtze River Simulator,” which integrates sky-to-ground monitoring and comprehensive numerical simulation of hydrological-related processes in the Yangtze River Basin to foster the early warning and decision making of water security and water governance.
Professor Academician Jun Xia is the academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Chair Professor & Director of The Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), Wuhan University. His work is featuring on the nonlinear system theory of hydrology. Professor Xia proposed the “Urban Water System, version 5.0” by linking urban systems with river basin systems and applied it to smart basin management, which was awarded the Second Prize of the National Natural Science in 2017. Besides, Professor Xia led the development of the “Yangtze River Simulator,” which was selected as one of the “Top-10 Scientific and Technological Progress in China’s Ecological Environment (2023)”.
Clean water and clean air are vital for public health. This project focuses on developing high-efficiency and environmentally sustainable filters for removing harmful air/water pollutants. The team has developed novel architectures and functionalities for the filters to achieve high permeance, high removal efficiency, and excellent reusability.
