This paper develops a set of criteria that can be used to study industry adoption and dissemination of water technologies through various stages of a market adoption model. It tests the applicability of these criteria on a diverse array of over 488 water technologies. Based on case studies, it seeks to define the typical and…
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…
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…
By Paul O’Callaghan, CEO, BlueTech Research Last week I attended the IWA Resource Recovery Conference in Venice. For two-and-a-half days, there were presentations on every imaginable aspect of wastewater resource recovery: magnetic extraction of phosphorus as vivianite, Kaumera alginate production factories in the Netherlands, manufacturing protein from biogas in Belgium, recovery of nitrogen from source-separated…
• Technologies for surface water monitoring and mains assessment take awards • Major global corporations and utilities share their challenges • Brave Blue World documentary trailer premiered A floating buoy that can monitor algal blooms using satellites and a technology that employs machine learning to assess the condition of water distribution mains were winners of…
Join the most current water discussion at BlueTech Forum. BlueTech Forum will gather large water corporates, small water tech companies, international utilities, industrial end users, investors and research institutes in London’s Kew Gardens on June 5-6th. The theme of this year’s event is Innovating Towards Resilient Water Systems. The water cycle is where the impact…
Brave Blue World – A Perfect Storm for Water An engaging new documentary will showcase water like never before. Called Brave Blue World, the feature-length documentary will provoke a fundamental rethink, revolution and paradigm shift in how people view the treatment and delivery of water, a vital element to life on Earth. The circular economy,…
Paul O’Callaghan, CEO of BlueTech Research reports from Davos Attending the World Economic Forum in Davos was something completely outside my realm of previous experience, and I am not quite sure what to compare it to. Davos is truly in the middle of nowhere. Deliberately so, I am sure. It is a two-hour drive to…
You may be 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 flipped it around, asking: which are the ‘big…
Moderator: Dr Graeme K Pearce, Director, Membrane Consultancy Associates, Consultant, O2 Environmental Technology Assessment Group (TAG) Panelists: Eric Hoek, Founder, CEO, Water Planet Engineering Rob McGinnis, Founder, CEO, Nagare Bruce Hinds, William Bryan Professor of Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky BlueTech® Research, in conjunction with B2B Webinars, would like to invite you to our upcoming interactive webinar on the potential for nanotechnology in desalination, including analysis…