Chinese student's water design debuts during World Water Week

"My design is a UAV for monitoring water quality, and it uses some of remote sensing technology to reach the goal," said Ke Shuai, from Middle School attached to HUST China. He presented his design on Sunday during World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.

The UAV can do a vertical take-off, like a fixed-wing airplane flight, said Ke Shuai, adding that the gadget can use a scope of parameters to reflect the status of water quality.

He considered it an honor and a responsibility for him to show the design during the World Water Week. In addition, he liked this communication platform, which is able to meet other talented students from various countries.

This year, World Water Week celebrates its 25th anniversary in Stockholm. Stockholm Junior Water Prize, an important prize of the World Water Week, has attracted the world's most imaginative young minds for an outstanding competition in the capital of Sweden. The prize is to stimulate young people's interest in water resources and environmental protection, to encourage young people to improve the rational use of water resources in inventions and technology.

China Youth Team, one of 29 international teams, has been widely praised with its unique water design. They will compete for the final of 2015 "Junior Water Prize" in the next few days.

"I think this young man's study in water quality monitoring is really important and developing a technique that can be used widely, inexpensively relatively speaking," said Dr. Rita Colwell, Laureate of 2010 Stockholm Water Prize.

"We found this project very interesting and it's always very good to see that young person demonstrated a new invention like this and I think this is a good example for China to use it as an inspiration for lots of other young people," Krishna Pagilla, jury committee member, told Xinhua.