Reporter Topic: Reflections on Water

Reporter: Ian White, Academician of the Australian Academy of Engineering

Time: 10:00, Sep.22, 2023

Location: Room 202, Academic Hall of State Key Laboratory

Brief Introduction of Report

This seminar will draw some lessons from a career spanning the last 60 years involving water. These will cover aspects from molecular properties of the air/water interface, important for evaporation, through solutions to the highly non-linear flow equation for water in soils, to development of water national policy, implementation plans and national water legislation. The work has covered mathematics, physical chemistry, chemical and petroleum engineering, soil physics, hydrology, sociology and governance. Practical outcomes will be highlighted and some simple observations of conditions for successful research will be presented.