BlueTech Podcasts
The BlueTech Podcasts feature conversations with influential & interesting people from the water technology sector and all the latest news.
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on January 9, 2019
A very Happy New Year and welcome to the first TalkWater episode of 2019! As trailed in our End of Year Web Briefing, BlueTech is about to publish a report on opportunities in Point of Use and water treatment monitoring – an area of increasing interest as newer technologies and products are combining with shifting...
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on December 6, 2018
December is about both endings and beginnings. The BlueTech team have been hard at work the past few weeks planning BlueTech’s editorial calendar for 2019. In this episode we share updates on what we have seen in 2018 and point to thematic shifts in water and trends to track in 2019. We will make reference...
Posted by BlueTech Research
on November 8, 2018
You may familiar with the term FANG stocks, a term coined by Jim Cramer on CNBC’s Mad Money to describe the four biggest tech giants in terms of stock valuations – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google. At BlueTech we took this concept, applied it to water and asked – who are the ‘big four’ investors...
Posted by BlueTech Research
on October 2, 2018
In October’s podcast, BlueTech explores the opportunities to test for drugs in wastewater using real time sensing and monitoring. The data can be valuable, allowing scientists and law enforcement to quickly track drug use and measure the impact of drug policy strategies; but is it ethical? IOT-based Asset Performance Management (APM) tools are being specifically...
Posted by BlueTech Research
on September 4, 2018
In this month’s podcast, we focus on WEFTEC, one of the water sectors largest conferences, which will take place in October in New Orleans. BlueTech are once again proud to host the Innovation Pavilion at WEFTEC in conjunction with Imagine H20 and WEF. The Pavilion puts the spotlight on water sector innovation and provides access...
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on August 2, 2018
In our August podcast, we speak to Bill Toffey, a member of BlueTech’s Technology Assessment Group, on recent innovations in Sludge Dewatering. Bill specifically investigates opportunities within IoT and looks at how sensors and automatic controls are being used to handle wastewater solids. We also turn our attention to Snipe the sniffer dog, United Utilities...
Posted by BlueTech Research
on July 9, 2018
BlueTech Forum 2018 was held on 6th & 7th June in Vancouver. The programme featured a series of thought leadership roundtables, led by prominent industry representatives and BlueTech TAG Experts. These were discussions around key themes including the circular economy, reuse, next generation membranes and point-of-use technologies among many others. We speak with three TAG...
Posted by BlueTech Research
on May 4, 2018
This month, we speak with Christina Copeland from Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) about what it means to be on the CDP ‘A list’, what drives the companies to disclose their data, and the growing trend of environmental reporting. Additionally, we look at the implications of the upcoming PR19 for the UK water industry and the...
Posted by BlueTech Research
on April 4, 2018
April’s podcast looks at the topic of decentralized water. The industry is generally accepting of the fact that decentralized, modular treatment is a solution to meet the ever-growing physical and financial infrastructure gap. The drivers are clear but when does going ‘off-grid’ make sense? What technologies will support decentralized water re-use and what service models...
