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2021/01/21 8th International Workshop on Decentralized Wastewater Treatment in Asia: Water-borne Diseases and Disasters

 

  Since early in the 2020, COVID-19 has spread out and effected whole around the world. In the wastewater management field, it is still not clear how COVID -19 will behave and affect the human health, although it has been reported that the appropriate wastewater treatment such as activated sludge method with disinfection will significantly reduce the concentration of COVID-19 in the effluent water.
Moreover, disasters such as Typhoon and heavy rain are occurred more often these days, those disasters also threaten our life. Under these emergent situations, wastewater management would be more important than usual to prevent the water borne diseases outbreak.

In this Webinar, we would like to focus on those 2 big themes.
In Session A, we will share the information and current research outcome regarding the Water-borne Diseases. All participants are expected to understand the risk of water-borne diseases derived from decentralized wastewater treatment and to discuss the countermeasures.
In Session B, panelists will share the knowledge and case study based on Japan's experience in human waste and wastewater management under disasters such as floods and earthquakes.
On behalf of the Organizer of this Wibinar, Ministry of the Environment Government of Japan (MOEJ), JECES is pleased to introduce the information on this event as below. 


The 8th Workshop on

Decentralized Domestic Wastewater Treatment in Asia



           Date:  21st  January, 2021


           Time: 17:00 ~ 19:00 (Japan time) 


           Registration is required (Zoom Webinar)   


Organizer:  Ministry of the Environment Government of Japan
Leaflet 
Program 
Participant Guide   
Contents

Presenter

material

 Opening Remarks

Mr. Yasuo Yamamoto

 

Director, Office for Promotion of Johkasou, Waste Management Division, Environmental Regeneration and Material Cycles Bureau, MOEJ

  Session A 

  Risk of Water-borne diseases and decentralized wastewater management 

A-1

Mechanism of Water-borne Diseases and Countermeasures 

Dr. Ph (Mr) Dai Simazaki


Chief Senior Researcher, Water Supply & Management Section, Department of Environmental Health, National Institute of Public Health (NIPH)

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Japan



A-2

Announcement on the prevention of the COVID-19 for the Johkasou business workers in Japan 

Ms. Moemi Shiraishi


Section Chief, Office for Promotion of Johkasou, Waste Management Division, Environmental Regeneration and Material Cycles Bureau, MOEJ  


A-3

Measures against water-borne diseases in the field of decentralized wastewater management 

Dr. Ph (Mr) Hiroyuki Katayama


Professor, Department of Urban Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

 
 Q&A

 Video broadcast (Click to access the website on you tube )

 

 

  Session B

  Domestic wastewater management and disaster measures

B-1

Water Quality Improvement through Replace Old Type Johkasou by Johkasou 

Mr. Susumu Asakawa


Senior managing director, Saitama-ken Environmental Analysis & Research Association  



B-2

Treatment of Wastewater including human waste in disasters  ~ Heavy rain disaster and countermeasure ~

Dr. Ph (Mr) Keizo Niki


Director, Research and Development Division,

Japan Education Center of Environmental Sanitation 



B-3

Situation of wastewater management under disasters

Mr. Kikuya Shibata


Secretary general, Miyagi Prefectural Authority for Living Environment



 Q&A
 Closing

Ms. Moemi Shiraishi


Section Chief, Office for Promotion of Johkasou,

Waste Management Division, Environmental

Regeneration and Material Cycles Bureau, MOEJ

Questions and Answers

 

     

 

We summarized the questions received when registration and during the Webinar, and put the comment and answer. Please be noted those comments are not authorized officially by Ministry of the Environment.

 

If you have any questions in advance of this Webinar, please contact Secretariat (shirakawa@jeces.or.jp) via email.

The secretariat team will make all efforts to answer all questions in the designated period. If your question is not able to be answered or requires extra details, the secretariat will reach out via email in the week following the webinar to help address your concerns. 


Secretariat contact information

    Ms. Yurie Shirakawa

    Researcher, 

    Japan Education Center of Environmental Sanitation (JECES)

    Address: 2-23-3 Kikukawa, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-0024, Japan

    E-mail: shirakawa@jeces.or.jp

 

 

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