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Lessons from Walden

This Easter break, for the first time ever, I spent two weeks of vacation at home. Not something I would ever have planned, tending to always want to visit different places and experience new things, but this year was we traded Sri Lanka for a stay-cation and it was a revelation. Staying at home was…

Lessons from Walden

  This Easter break, for the first time ever, I spent two weeks of vacation at home. Not something I would ever have planned, tending to always want to visit different places and experience new things, but this year was we traded Sri Lanka for a stay-cation and it was a revelation. Staying at home…

Seeking Anti-fragility in a Black Swan event – strategies for the water sector

A Black Swan event is a term used by Nicholas Taleb, to describe a turbulent event outside of the realm of our previous experience. According to Taleb, things which are anti-fragile, get stronger when challenged, while things which are fragile, break when shocked. The stock market and global supply chains are fragile. Our communities are…

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Seeking Anti-fragility in a Black Swan event – strategies for the water sector

A Black Swan event is a term used by Nicholas Taleb, to describe a turbulent event outside of the realm of our previous experience. According to Taleb, things which are anti-fragile, get stronger when challenged, while things which are fragile, break when shocked. The stock market and global supply chains are fragile. Our communities are…

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Developing Resilient Water Systems for a Sustainable Future

The 2020 World Water-Tech Innovation Summit is where water utility leaders, start-ups, technology giants, engineers and investors from all over the globe come to find solutions to today’s challenges of digitisation, security, energy recovery and new water resources. Held in central London on February 25-26, 2020, this is the place to meet start-ups, tech giants,…

The Sanitation Economy

On #WorldToiletDay we share some insights into solving one of the world’s biggest challenges – the sanitation crisis. Some 2.4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation. There are solutions and technology to fix this – but the process of bringing these to market and getting them to those who need them must be accelerated.…

Challenges, solutions, and innovation in the water sector

BlueTech Research’s Founding CEO, Paul O’Callaghan discusses challenges, solutions, and innovation in the water sector during World Water Week in Stockholm alongside J. Carl Ganter, co-founder and director of Circle of Blue. Watch the full interview here Link to full article here available on Circle of Blue Website. Circle of Blue the center for frontline…

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Meet the innovators – BlueTech’s neighbours at Aquatech

Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU research and innovation programme ever, with nearly 80 billion euros of funding available between 2014 to 2020. It promises breakthroughs, discoveries and world firsts, by taking great ideas from lab to market. By coupling research and innovation, with an emphasis on excellent science, industrial leadership and tackling societal challenges,…

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Connecting with the BlueTech community at Aquatech

At BlueTech Research, our partners and clients are part of our community. We thrive on collaborating, exchanging ideas and learning from each other to find solutions to global water issues. Having a presence at industry events worldwide is integral to that. Not only do we get to meet long-standing friends from the BlueTech community, we…

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Top 10 WEFTEC technology talks announced by BlueTech

We are just days away from WEFTEC 2019, when more than 500 water leaders and innovators will present papers to our industry peers. If you are going, we hope you have found our series of recommendations helpful in planning your itinerary. We have looked closely at emerging trends, innovation and what could be commercially significant.…