The water industry, as an important field of infrastructure construction and livelihood engineering, has a profound impact on the quality of life of residents and the sustainable development of urban and rural areas. With the continuous acceleration of urbanization, how to quickly empower the development of the water industry and promote convenient, accurate, and high-quality development of water management is an important reform direction for the current water industry. On the occasion of World Environment Day, Professor Wang Kaijun from the School of Environment at Tsinghua University and Director of the National Environmental Protection Technology Management and Evaluation Engineering Technology Center, and Vice President of Beikong Water Group, Fa Jianhua, visited the "People's Reception Hall" column on People's Daily to discuss and share issues such as the future development direction of the water industry, technological innovation in the water industry, and development strategies of industry enterprises. "I am full of confidence in the innovative development of the water industry in the new era." Fa Jianhua said that at present, various problems and scenarios in the water industry in China are more complex than those in other countries. From the perspective of future development, the scarcity of water resources, insufficient technological innovation, and water quality safety in China will limit its technological and economic development. To this end, Beikong Water proposed the concept of "Future New Water Services", aiming to explore new scenarios and paradigms for the future upgrading and development of water utilities, and guide the direction of intergenerational leapfrog development in water and environmental industries. In the process of high-quality development in the industry, it has become a consensus and action of the entire society that green waters and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains. "Wang Kaijun said that the current development task of the water industry is to support the high-quality development of future cities and towns, as well as to build a modern harmonious relationship between humans and nature. The future water industry needs to adapt to the shape of future social development, not only through model innovation, but also through innovation in paradigms. "How to transform value creation to make more value more directly reflected is the key problem to be solved in the new water affairs plan, and it is also the sustainable way to solve the industry development." Feng Jianhua said that these value paths need to be realized through innovation, which is reflected in the following three aspects: new technology, through new combinations and new applications of technology, to generate disruptive innovation on the basis of incremental innovation; The new model generates new customer relationships by changing payment models, reducing costs, and developing customers; The responsibility is new, which not only guarantees the right to human development, but also assumes the responsibility of pollution reduction, carbon reduction, and health, and develops towards the direction of social health management, irrigation water, tap water, and ecological water comprehensive management. In today's increasingly advanced technology, how can the future development of the water industry break through? The future innovative development of China's water industry lies in finding a path that suits oneself. The water industry is the carrier space for achieving high-quality development and needs to provide support for a better life. "Wang Kaijun believes that in terms of infrastructure construction, it is necessary to adapt to the development of the times, transform sewage treatment plants from previous" isolated points "into network" nodes ", and provide comprehensive and essential services for water affairs. At the same time, we should integrate water as a carrier of energy and resources into the low-carbon strategy of urban construction, stimulate social development vitality with sufficient water resources, and stimulate people's imagination for a better life. It is understood that the proposal of the future new water affairs plan is based on the judgment of three stages of the development of the national water affairs industry: the first stage is the "water affairs" stage, which is the construction of water infrastructure