BlueNotes

In BlueTech's recent web briefing, TAG expert Corina Carpentier presents some of the findings from BlueTech’s latest Horizon Scan on online bacterial monitoring – an update of our 2017 report. There is a significant and growing need for technologies which can quantify and identify bacterial threats at a high standard, and within minutes, rather than the several days which conventional methods...

BlueTech’s end of year web briefing provided a round-up of the key highlights from research completed in 2019, as well as a look forward to the growth opportunities in 2020 and beyond. In keeping with the Water Almanac theme, the briefing engaged in light-hearted crystal ball gazing including, ‘most likely to exit’, ‘make or break year for’ and ‘rising stars to watch’. Our BlueTech analysts and TA...

Welcome everyone to 2020 – the year of 366 days! It has been the start of something new for BlueTech too, towards the end of last year many of you might have heard about the premier of the Brave Blue World 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 ma...

In this months podcast, with the end of year in sight, it is time to stand back and reflect on on what we have seen, heard and talked about and in this episode we will share some of our “big ideas” from 2019. Looking at the water innovation landscape, who will be the rising stars of tomorrow? Who are ‘the new kids on the block ‘and who will come back stronger? For all of this and more, tune in to...

Just back from WEFTEC 2019 and for those who have been following us on social media, you would have seen our activities at WEFTEC. In case you haven’t, no worries. You can play back and relive our moments at WEFTEC by clicking on this link: (Kate to provide link). At our breakfast briefing we presented on our latest work on disruptive innovation defining innovation as falling into a ‘market creati...

Join Divya Inna this month as she speaks to BlueTech Research CEO, Paul O’Callaghan about his recent trip to India to understand how people are dealing with water scarcity and industrial water challenges. The city of Chennai, India’s sixth biggest city, faced devastating floods in 2015 that killed hundreds of people and displaced many more. How does a flood-prone city, 4 years later, run almost en...

We’ve all heard of superheroes but what about the bad guys – superbugs? What challenges do they pose for the future of medicine, and for wastewater treatment? In this month’s podcast, we are joined by Ana de Almeida, one of the few researchers in this area, who will share updates on what we know and don’t yet know about antibiotic resistant bacteria in wastewater. Also, find out what is happening...

Science and cutting edge technology has helped solve problems, but what do we do when the problem is too big for us engineers and scientists to handle alone? From technology to art, join us for on a journey through two conferences – the 16th annual IWA Leading Edge Conference on Water & Wastewater Technologies and the Life With Water summit hosted by Art Hub Copenhagen.  From science to the ar...

The BlueTech team are heading to the beautiful Kew Gardens this week for our 2019 BlueTech Forum conference and we are lucky to be joined by a group of nearly 200 water professionals from all over the world. In keeping with the wonderful environment of Kew Gardens, this podcast contains some facts and figures about the venue that may come in useful for some pub trivia!  Also, this month, we narrat...

On this month’s podcast, we talk to industrial end users from key sectors such as Food & Beverage, Brewing and Consumer Goods who share with us their top water innovation needs.   In this podcast, Carlsberg, Nestle and Proctor & Gamble identify key innovation challenges in their business, opportunities, and required solutions. You can meet with them and other industrial end users and utili...

On this month’s podcast, we provide a framework to classify ‘disruptive innovation’, inspired by Clayton Christensen’s original definition and model of disruptivity. We present four key types of innovation: discontinuous, radical functionality, sustaining and disruptive innovation and their commercial impact. Understanding how the different types of innovations should be commercialized and diffuse...

On this month’s podcast, four very different Innovation Showcase companies provide a 1-minute pitch to introduce their technology, its value proposition and the problem it solves. In the lead-up to BlueTech Forum, we hope this will help you pick your favourites so you can learn more from them at their roundtable sessions. We also speak to Rhys Owen on more high-level thematic trends around the san...

BlueTech joined the stars at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, in which a normally understated Swiss town transforms into a form of travelling road show and cocktail party for the global business and political elite. Join us on this episode where we discuss our discovery that large corporations are, perhaps surprisingly, leading the way in focussing on environmental and sustainability...

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 customer demands to send the market in a new direction. Tyler Algeo, the report’s...

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 to insights shared by our TAG team at our end of year webinar 2018 and you can find the reco...

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 in water tech?    In this month’s podcast, we also review the latest addition to our book club -...

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 developed to improve the life of cr...

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 to the leaders and the technologies making it all happen. Our S...

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 latest recruit! -- Presented by BlueTe...

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 Experts to provide th...

There has been a lot of buzz in recent months about water quality and consumer perception. But ultimately, it all points to the same thing, which is lack of trust in municipal tap quality and the desire for more control over the quality of water consumed. There is a dizzying array of technologies available in the market today, however as a consumer how do I decide which product to go for? Also, Ch...

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 initiatives undertaken by the UK water utilities to face the change and br...

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 are these companies offeri...

Earlier this month, Stephen Colbert on the Late Show joked about the recent ‘raw water’ phenomenon. For those of you not yet familiar, this is a new fad in which the public is invited to pay for water that is ‘unfiltered, untreated and unsterilized.’In March’s podcast, Divya Inna speaks to BlueTech CEO Paul O’Callaghan about his thoughts on the “raw water” phenomenon. The podcast also features sho...

The Circular Economy dynamic offers a framework that is both resilient and restorative for generations to come and also a mechanism for transitioning growth into a positive trend for the environment, the economy and the society. “Managing Water in the Circular Economy” is our theme for BlueTech Forum this year. Over the past year, a number of different corporate end users have shared with us their...