Project title: Global Aqua Innovation Center for Improving Living Standards and Water-sustainability (2013-2021)

Securing safe water supplies is becoming a worldwide challenge. Looking ahead to the future when the world population reaches 8 to 9 billions, this project brings together people form academia, industry, and government organizations across Japan to develop and deploy innovative desalination and water reclamation systems based on robust reverse osmosis membranes composed of nanocarbons.

Project members: Shinshu University, Hitachi, Ltd., Toray Industries, Inc., Showa Denko K.K., National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), RIKEN, Research Organization for information Science and Technology (RIST), Kitagawa Industries co., Ltd., Toclas Corporation, Kurita Water Industries, Ltd., Nagano Prefectural Government, Japan (JAMSTEC), Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Chuo UniversityAgency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology.