Sustainable Water Process Engineering Group | Engineering Science Department | University of Oxford

The Laboratory for Sustainable Water Engineering at Oxford focusses on developing sustainable engineering processes for clean water acquisition, recycle and reuse in a world of diminishing resources, climate change and the drive to reduce environmental and carbon footprints.

Our research activity focuses on four main areas; the supply of clean, potable drinking water, including low energy desalination of brackish and sea-water,  waste-water treatment and water reuse, and industrial process water treatment and recycling. Underpinning all our work is the application of colloidal systems, nanotechnology and membrane processes. Our work is highly interdisciplinary, and currently involves engineering, microbiology, chemistry, mathematics, and the social sciences.