Costa Brava experience on water recycling explained in Taiwan

From http://www.ccbgi.org/activitats.php#id_23 and http://www.ccbgi.org/activitats.php#id_30b (in English)

[caption id="attachment_862" align="alignleft" width="300"] Presentation at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, November 2010[/caption]

Wondering what to post during these days of August of such low activity here, I realized that nothing was more "Sinalunya" than explaining my own adventures in Taiwan, where I gave two presentations about water recycling, one in September 2009 at the National Taipei University of Technology (國立台北科技大學), and the other one in November 2010 at the National Taiwan University (國立台灣大學). Consorci de la Costa Brava, the water agency that I work for, is a pioneering utility on water recycling in Spain and its experience seems to be of interest for a country that, despite the high rainfall -at least compared with Spain-, has a rather low per capita availability of water resources due to the high population, high industrial demand and a limitation on the capacity of building more dams due to the seismic activity of the area. Treated wastewater can be conveniently reclaimed and recycled for non-potable uses, which produces water savings and also reduces discharges into the environment. Consorci de la Costa Brava is collaborating on the organization of the 8th IWA International Conference on Water Reclamation and Reuse, led by Agbar, where the main findings on the area where they will be presented. Taiwanese professor Elliot Chen (陳筱華), Vice President and Chief Researcher at the Environment and Development Foundation (財團法人環境與發展基金會), is serving as member of the conference Scientific Committee.