Highlighting JAPAN

Over the years, Japan has built up a wealth of water technologies and expertise, such as the waterworks developed in the mid-seventeenth century in Edo (now Tokyo). Today, Japan shares its water know-how protect and distribute life's most precious resource around the world.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's waterworks are one of the world's largest. Tokyo's Vice Governor Naoki Inose explains some of the operation's unique attributes.

Released in 2002, the water purification agent developed by Dr. Kanetoshi Oda of Nippon Poly-Glu is today bringing clean drinking water to people in some forty countries.

Residents of the Shiga Prefecture district of Harie have long lived their daily lives in harmony with the spring water which issues from their ground.

The first wastewater and sewage sludge gasification furnace in Japan has commenced operations.

Japan exports a wide range of waterworks infrastructure, including desalination equipment and IT-related water management systems. We profile the work of three companies involved in the field.

Japan Water Forum Chairman Dr. Koutarou Takemura explains the cause of the increasingly severe water problems facing the world and considers Japan's role in finding solutions.