Globally ranked among the top research and technology organisations in the environment and water domain, the NEWRI ecosystem strives t​o take its lab-scale innovations to innovative engineered solutions for the water and environmental markets. With ‘Research-Engineering-Deployment’ (RED) as its guiding philosophy, NEWRI bridges deep research with cutting-edge innovation, robust engineering coupled with industry-level translation, to field applications, piloting and deployment at full scale in real life settings.

Through industrial and CSR projects with commercial and social impact, NEWRI continuously strives to make a difference towards developing a true circular economy through efficient reuse innovations, and harnessing the value in waste. The NEWRI ecosystem comprises the following domains: 
- Biotechnology & Bioprocesses, 
- Environmental Sensing, Modelling & AI Machine Learning,
- Environmental Chemistry & Materials, 
- Resource Recovery, 
- Membrane Technology (SMTC) 

Together with a philanthropic initiative, analytics cluster and engineering team, as well as an education and training unit​ in environmental science and engineering. They form an inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional ecosystem to provide holistic environmental engineered solutions. 

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