“We, the participants in this Earth Observation Summit held in Washington, DC, on July 31, 2003 recognize the need to support …
(1) Improved coordination of strategies and systems for observations of the Earth and identification of measures to minimize data gaps, with a view to moving toward a comprehensive, coordinated, and sustained Earth observation system or systems …”
The presentation will commence with an overview of the research undertaken in my research group pertaining to environmental colloids and water purification. This will be followed by a detailed discussion of microfiltration fouling mechanisms over two different time scales caused by bacteria.
The enormous diversity of toxic and organic pollutants of different chemical composition eliminates the possibility of using a universal treatment method and has led to the development of special treatment methods for water decontamination.
