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    Oct 28, 2021 3 minutes

    WATER INDUSTRY SCHOLAR PASSED AWAY

    Xu Baojiu, China’s renowned water industry scholar, died in Beijing at the age of 103 on October 15.

    Xu, a pioneer in water supply and sewerage engineering in China, was the first one to put forward the concept of the water and wastewater industry, contributing to the rise of urban sewage treatment rate from 5 percent to 90 percent between the 1970s and 1990s.

    Born in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou Province, Xu graduated from the University of Wisconsin System in 1951 and then returned to China. As the first PhD of water and wastewater engineering in China, he went on to teach at the School of Environment, Tsinghua University, for

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