SIWW Diary

The value of water is a hot topic.  How much do you value water?  When we don’t have water, we really value it; however, in many places people expect water to be cheap, after all it falls from the sky and there are lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans of water.  Yet, we tend to forget [...]

This is a question that has been discussed in a variety of venues this week at both SIWW and LET. As we look at the water scarcity challenges around the globe, we know a holistic water review is required to examine conservation, non-potable reuse, indirect potable reuse, impaired waters (brackish or contaminated waters), desalination, and [...]

At the beginning of SIWW, I was talking with co-workers and the question was asked, if you were given $100 m to spend on research, how would you spend it? What a problem to have!! There are still so many research frontiers in the water industry, it is hard to choose – it is like [...]

Tonight I had a great conversation with Cynthia Mitchell with the University of Technology, Sydney Australia regarding the decisions we make in the water industry. Often times we focus on the detail and miss the big picture, i.e. we miss the forest for the trees. When we look at the impact of wastewater treatment with [...]

Tonight I, along with several other B&V professionals, attended a reception by PWN in association with SIWW, to launch their new subsidiary company called PWN Technologies.  PWN is a water supply company in North Holland that has developed innovative solutions to water treatment problems for many decades.    PWN became well known for their pioneering work [...]