Tag: water

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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…

More leading WEFTEC speakers announced by BlueTech

The global water industry is gearing up for WEFTEC 2019, which is only a few days away. As the biggest event of its kind in North America, with inspiring speakers from around the world, delegates can expect to be inundated with a choice of high-quality presentations. That’s why we have been announcing our key recommendations…

Resource recovery potential unveiled in Venice

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…

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Brave Blue World – the documentary

‘Brave Blue World’ is the first honest and hopeful documentary that will paint an optimistic picture of how humanity is adopting new technologies and innovations to re-think how we manage water. The story will follow Paul O’Callaghan, water industry expert and CEO, BlueTech Research, as he visits sites around the world that are employing novel…

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The International Water Conference® (IWC)

The International Water Conference® (IWC) is a strong educational conference, founded with an emphasis on commercial free discussions on technology. The IWC presents the latest in scientific advances and practical applications in this field, cutting across a wide range of industries, technologies and functional areas. As the preeminent international technical forum in the field, the…

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Winners of BlueTech innovation prizes announced

• 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…

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Industries closing the loop on water resilience

As large industrial water users join BlueTech Forum in London in June, their leaders tell BlueTech Research chief executive Paul O’Callaghan that water resilience goes well beyond technology into whole catchment management and deep community engagement. A shift in the way big industrial water users manage resources is taking place as corporations seek to strengthen…

Technologies for textiles and aquaculture win MIT Water Prize

A membrane technology for textile manufacturers and a recirculating aquaculture system have been announced as joint winners of the MIT Water prize. Student-led teams SiPure and Symbrosia will share the US$35,000 prize with Volta Irrigation, a social enterprise focused on resource optimisation in agricultural small-holdings. The MIT Water Innovation Prize is a start-up competition run…

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Water runs through the circular economy

Circular economy approaches can add value to a vast range of processes and product sectors, but water is the ‘blue thread’ that flows through it all, Nick Jeffries tells Paul O’Callaghan, chief executive, BlueTech Research. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation was launched in 2010 with a mission to accelerate the global transition to a circular economy.…