Shinshu University Profile 2015
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Global water issuesOnly 0.01% of water on earth is available for useApprox. 35.4 million km3Approx. 10.8 million km30.01%Approx. 140 thousand km3Glacial or other freshwater that is difficult to utilize: 1.76%0.77%Groundwater or other freshwater that is difficult to utilize: 0.76%The earth’s total water; 1.4 billion km3Freshwater: 2.53%Seawater: 97.47%More than 1.1 billion people have no access to safe drinking waterMore than 0.9 billion people lack enough food due to inadequate access to irrigation water and other related factorsThe world’s population will soon hit 8 billion by 2030, which will make securing the necessary water even harderGlobal Aqua Innovation Center for Improving Living Standards and Water-sustainabilityShinshu University “Forest of Knowledge”4In October 2013, the Center of Innovation (COI) site proposal, which was submitted jointly by Shinshu University, Hitachi Infrastructure Systems Company, Toray Industries, Inc., Showa Denko K.K., National Institute for Materials Science, and the Nagano Prefectural Government, was selected by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Japan Science and Technology Agency under their Center of Innovation Science and Technology based Radical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program (COI STREAM). Shinshu University’s Center, one of 12 such sites in Japan, has been launched as Global Aqua Innovation Center for Improving Living Standards and Water-sustainability. Securing safe water supplies is becoming a worldwide challenge. Looking ahead to the future when the world population is to 8 - 9 billion, the Project Team identifies current research and development challenges to provide people all over the world with safe and secure water supplies. With the aim of establishing innovative water desalination and reclamation systems, the Center makes full use of Shinshu University’s outstanding R&D results concerning carbon materials and manufacturing technologies of Nagano and Japan, and engages in basic, applied, and developmental research and preliminary evaluation of practical application cases.16

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