6.5.3) Off-campus water conservation support
Support water conservation off campus.

A department of water resources and environmental engineering has been set up in the university, and the school-level research center also houses a water environment information research center. With the United Nations' sustainable development goal of "clean water and sanitation" as the research goal, we continuously cooperate with the government, private enterprises, or third parties to support water conservation off campus. Relevant acts include:

◆Teachers serve as independent directors of Taiwan Water Company, assisting the Environmental Protection Agency in promoting the Water Safety Plan.
◆Assist private enterprises in the treatment of industrial wastewater, improve the water quality testing capabilities of water purification plants, and jointly develop clean water technology.
◆Faculty members of the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering formed a research team with National Taiwan University, combining big data on typhoon paths from the Central Weather Bureau with AI technology to predict rainfall in watershed areas. This allows the Shimen Reservoir Management Center to receive predictions two days in advance, aiding in decision-making for reservoir water release. The research process was documented by our faculty in a paper titled “Self-organizing Maps of Typhoon Tracks Allow for Flood Forecasts up to Two Days in Advance,” published in Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 1983 (2020). The prediction results help manage the water levels of Shimen Reservoir during typhoon season, ensuring the water needs of households, agriculture, and industry in northern Taiwan are met. 跨校研究團隊論文發表
◆The professor from the Department of Water Environment obtained the patent for the "Fluorinated Wastewater Treatment System," which can improve the efficiency of wastewater treatment and solve the problem of insufficient space and equipment for small and medium-sized enterprises. At present, we are cooperating with well-known power plants to assist in the construction of wastewater treatment equipment and will continue to cooperate with the industry, so that fluorine-containing wastewater can be reused in a circular economy, creating a win-win situation for the economy and environmental protection.
◆Teachers serve as the governmental disaster prevention advisory committee members, entrusted by the Water Resources Administration of the Ministry of Economic Affairs to provide consultation on the maintenance and operation of the flood control operation system of the reservoir, evaluating the capacity of the reservoirs and effectively discharge floods to reduce flooding disasters caused by floods and reduce the risk regarding the loss of life and property caused by flooding and typhoons.
◆Teachers from the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering jointly formed a research team with National Taiwan University to work with data on the typhoon path collected from the Meteorological Bureau and use AI technology to predict the rainfall in the catchment area, which can be handed over to the reservoir management center two days in advance to facilitate the decision-making of the reservoir's regulatory water release. Cooperation with the Malaysian government regarding the project has also been carried out through the Taiwan Hydrological Information Association, to assist Malaysia in building a regional flood forecasting system through technology export.
◆To provide the local community with high-quality education on water resources management, we designed the "Chemistry on the Go" activity, a promotion tour service jointly supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Chemical Society and the industry, with the plan of having appropriately refitted trucks visiting elementary schools, middle schools and communities to conduct popular science activities, combined lectures, sample collection and analysis, and experiments to discuss water resources-related issues.