A university in Korea has linked up with Silliman University in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, to jointly develop a technology for mitigating bacterial contamination of drinking water in the Philippines, a press release from the school said.

SU president Ben Malayang III and Chonbuk National University president Geo-Suk Suh signed recently a memorandum of understanding to undertake the project called “Sustainable development and technical support for a physical water treatment technology to mitigate scaling and bacterial contamination of drinking water and piping systems in the Philippines”.

The project will be submitted for funding under the Global Research and Development Networking Program of the National Research Foundation of the Republic of Korea, the press release said.

The three-year project that will end on May 30, 2015, aims to promote research and academic exchange, and will involve both the College of Engineering and Design laboratory of SU, and the Physical Water Treatment and Biosystem Laboratory of Chonbuk, the flagship Korean university of the Jeonbuk Province of South Korea.

Cheol Sang Kim, chair of the Division of Mechanical Design and Engineering of Chonbuk, and Dr. Benjamin Tobias, former dean and now professor at SU’s CED will head the project, the press release added.*

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