International Communications on Water Management in Beijing    

According to statistics from Lnoppen, one of the leading producers of business conferences and professional trainings in China, China's water market is forecasted to grow 15% in 2009, and another 15% in 2010, making China the largest urban environmental infrastructure market in the world after 2020. The Chinese government will spend around RMB1 trillion on drinking water and water management infrastructure with sewage treatment facilities alone demanding RMB200 billion to 300 billion during the "11th Five-Year Program" period (2006-2010). The new profit opportunities motivate industries and local governments in China to comply with new energy saving and emission reduction policies and promote the marketization of drinking water, waste water and reclaimed water in China.
   Thus, on November 6th & 7th, 2008 Lnoppen held a conference named "International Water Summit 2008" in Beijing to promote communication about energy saving and emission reduction between various industries and urban governments.
   As is reported, from August 1st, 2008 to January 1st, 2010, there will be  78 sewage treatment projects around Poyang Lake in Jiangxi province; before the end of 2009, 79 sewage treatment works will be built in Hubei province; by the end of 2011, 69 sewage treatment works will be built in Anhui province; during the "11th Five-Year Program", there will be 79 water plants and 122 sewage treatment works built and rebuilt in Jiangsu province; and in Heilongjiang province, 40 new sewage treatment and recycling projects will take place in next two years.
   Other projects discussed in the conference include Reliance Industries' CTL (coal-to-liquids) Project, Energy Quest's IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) projects, and Gail India Limited's coal-to-fertilize project and so on.
   The attendants in the meeting proposed drawing lessons from the existing advanced projects to perfect their own technical progress.