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BlueTech Forum will be catalyst for regeneration

The global water and climate dialogue is seeing a shift away from making the environment ‘less-worse’ and towards initiating regrowth and regeneration. That is the view of Paul O’Callaghan, founder and chief executive of BlueTech Research, who is observing the... Read More

Booming Hydrogen Market Heralds The Water Technology Opportunities

The hydrogen economy is at the start of a period of growth, with the size of the global market predicted to be as much as US$12 trillion by 2050, according to the latest research. As part of global decarbonisation efforts, hydrogen is expected to emerge as an... Read More

Water Breakthrough Innovation funding from Ofwat will bring genuine breakthroughs

By BlueTech Research Chief Executive Paul O’Callaghan The largest tranche of external innovation funding ever injected into the UK water sector, representing £36M, has just been awarded to nine projects via the Ofwat Water Breakthrough Challenge. A total of 23 entries... Read More

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... Read More

BlueTech Research Roundtable 6: SDG6 – Clean Water & Sanitation – how innovation can lift us out of water poverty

We had a fantastic turn out at our latest roundtable which was held on the 11th May on the topic of SDG 6 – how innovation can lift us out of water poverty. We are on our third attempt since the 1980s to provide universal access to water. SDG 6 – achieve clean water... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

Biosphere 2 proves potential of ecological water systems

Through a radical experiment in life support systems – Biosphere 2 – ecologist Mark Nelson developed a deep understanding of humans’ connection with the earth and their impact on the water cycle. While some lessons may not have been acted upon fast enough,... Read More

BlueTech Forum 2019 Feedback

We hope to see you at BlueTech Forum 2020 which will take place in June. Full details will be released shortly. Please find below the Innovation Showcase and keynote presentations from BlueTech Forum 2019. Innovation Showcase Casestudies Download Presentations End... Read More

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... Read More

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