Tag: Technology

Welcoming the Year of the Water Tiger

Happy Chinese New Year, as we welcome in the Year of the Water Tiger, which occurs only once every 60 years. The next one you can mark will be in 2082! In Chinese astrology, water is one of the five elements and when combined with the 12 animals, produces the 60 unique combinations. I don’t…

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Assessing impact of innovative water technologies – report published

The latest paper from BlueTech Research, Assessing and Anticipating the Real World Impact of Innovative Water Technologies, has been published in The Journal of Cleaner Production. Authored by Paul O’Callaghan, Lakshmi Manjoosha Adapa and Cees Buisman, the paper’s highlights include: Levels of impact are defined based on reference sites, countries and market value The average…

The BlueTech Forecast Water Technology Markets 2020

Paul O’Callaghan was lead author on the groundbreaking report Water Technology Markets 2010. This report analysed the prospects of a wide range of innovative technologies across the water and wastewater treatment space. A decade later, we take stock of the changes in Water Technology Markets 2020. What has come to pass? What never materialised? What…

The demise of Grundfos BioBooster has lessons for early-stage acquisitions

Danish pump giant Grundfos announced in April that it would be closing its BioBooster division, affecting some 27 staff, and that it would cease its activities over the coming months. BioBooster MBR is a patented technology that combines biological treatment with a rotating ceramic membrane bioreactor (0.2 μm). The BioBooster was first tested at Herlev…

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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…

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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.…