Matthew Langdon

Veolia Water Technologies (UK) Ltd

Business Development Manager

What are the challenges of access to water in your region?

Waste Water Treatment in the UK is under increasing pressure and is continually in the media spotlight, from Storm Overflows, nutrient removal, protecting our oceans and waterways, reducing emissions and carbon footprint, micro pollutants and forever chemicals, increasing energy and material costs and stretched resources it is an extremely challenging environment at present.

What solutions are currently being implemented in your region?

Veolia Water Technologies UK Ltd offer various technologies and solutions for the treatment and management of Waste Water a key area of focus at present is for treatment and prevention of Storm Overflows, our treatment solutions can be in addition to WwTPs to increase capacity during storm events or via satellite sites to treat storm oveflows locally. Our innovative and advanced technologies can be used continually or on short start ups during storm events. We also have a digital solution called Hubgrade Performance which allows real time control of WwTPs and prevention of Storm Overflows. There are 2 sides to Hubgrade.

Hubgrade Performance allows you to fully optimise a treatment works reducing OPEX costs and allowing capacity in the plant to deal with storm flows and secondly Hubgrade Performance Sewer gives visualisation and control that allows the capacity within the sewer network to be effectively monitored and controlled. Attenuation within the Sewerage network ensures WwTPs have capacity to deal with Storm Flows effectively and prevent overflows, in Europe we have achieved reduction of up to 83% of storm overflow volumes where Hubgrade has been implemented.

In your opinion, what countries would benefit from innovative reuse, recycling, and/or desalination to quality and treatment?

The challenges seen in the UK are seen globally and Veolia are able to draw on our vast knowledge and experience from across the world to help solve some of the most challenging water treatment requirements.

• Real-time Water Quality Monitors

• Electrolytic In-Situ Reagent Generation Systems

• Solutions for Inorganic & Trace Metal Contaminants www.aquametrologysystems.com

Aqualatus®

Helping growers cut irrigation cycles by half while maintaining plant health and improving crop yields

Aqualatus is applied to irrigation systems and improves the moisture-holding capacity of the soil. Growers can confidently cut irrigation cycles by half and still see exceptional results without any loss of crop development, yield and quality. It also delivers further savings in fertiliser and energy costs too.

› Aqualatus can cut agricultural water use by 50%

› Provide water security for farmers and growers

› Proven technology across 10 years of trials

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Roi Zaken Porat IDE Technologies Director of Water Treatment Process

What are the challenges of access to water in your region?

In our region, one of the primary challenges is water scarcity. Limited freshwater resources, coupled with increasing demand due to population growth and industrial development, pose significant difficulties in ensuring reliable access to water. Climate change impacts, such as prolonged droughts, further escalate the situation.

What solutions are currently being implemented in your region?

In the case of Israel, which is known for its expertise in water management, some solutions implemented include desalination of seawater, wastewater recycling and reuse, advanced irrigation techniques, water-efficient technologies, and water demand management strategies. IDE Technologies is at the forefront of addressing water challenges in our region. We have pioneered advanced desalination technologies, enabling the conversion of seawater into high-quality freshwater. Our desalination plants play a vital role in providing a sustainable and reliable water source for our customers, reducing dependence on freshwater supplies.

What are you doing to promote sustainable drinking water supplies?

IDE Technologies is committed to promoting sustainable drinking water supplies. We actively invest in research and development to enhance desalination processes, making them more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly. Further, we have developed various technologies that allow high recoveries never imagined before with standard reverse osmosis system. The two main technologies are the MaxH2O Desalter and the MaxH2O PFRO.

What springs to mind when you hear the words ‘drinking water’?

When I think of “drinking water,” I envision purity, health, and life. IDE Technologies strives to ensure that our desalination and water treatment solutions deliver water that meets the highest standards of quality, providing safe and clean drinking water for communities and industries.

Sheila Kee Itron Senior Product Manager, Water Operations Management

What are the challenges of access to water in your region?

One of the top challenges related to water access is the continuous growth in demand for this vital resource. Factors such as increased food production and higher energy requirements contribute to an unsustainable and escalating impact on our already limited water supply. Furthermore, the destructive forces of natural disasters like hurricanes, combined with the effects of climate disruption, further disrupt water services. As both the demand for water and the occurrence of natural disasters continue to rise, it becomes imperative to take decisive steps to fight water scarcity and safeguard this invaluable resource.

What solutions are currently being implemented in your region?

In the utilities field, we are working with customers around the world to actively tackle the challenge of water loss by leveraging advanced technology, such as smart meters, intelligent networks, analytics and services. It is concerning that over one third of the water pumped from distribution systems is lost before reaching its intended destination. In California alone, we estimate that 27 billion gallons of treated water, equivalent to approximately 850,000 households, can be recovered by correcting leaks in distribution systems. By employing tools like advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and data analytics, utilities can swiftly detect and remedy leakages. Real-time detection plays a critical role in reducing water loss, as it eliminates the need for manual detection methods that can be time-consuming and less efficient.

What do you think the drinking water situation will be like 50 years from now?

According to UNICEF, by 2025, it is estimated that half of the world’s population could inhabit areas facing severe water scarcity. Furthermore, projections indicate that approximately 700 million people worldwide may face displacement by 2030 due to limited access to water. These alarming figures highlight the critical need for collective action at both the individual and organizational levels. Without prompt intervention, the issue of water scarcity will continue to escalate, worsening its impact on communities. It is imperative that immediate steps are taken to address this pressing challenge before its severity intensifies.

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Shilpa Alva Surge for Water Founder and Executive Director

What are the challenges of access to water in your region?

Surge works in rural, remote, farming communities in Haiti, Indonesia, Philippines, and Uganda. While the geographies vary quite significantly, they each face significant challenges with both water access and quality. Additionally, we see the effects of climate change via diminishing ground water levels, dried up springs, and erratic rain patterns that cause extreme flooding and droughts.

What solutions are currently being implemented in your region?

Surge is a women-led, community-driven organization that works hand-in-hand with communities and local governments to help implement their solutions. In Indonesia we work in arid villages in Bali and Sumba to build community rainwater harvesting systems and distribute household filters to ensure reliable, continuous water access and quality – especially in the dry seasons. In Uganda, due to the availability of ground and surface water, our solutions include: the drilling and rehabilitation of wells; the protection of springs; and the installation of community water filters. Surge also focuses on holistic interventions by constructing school toilets and delivering education programs on hygiene and menstrual health.

Do you think that drinking water should be free for everyone?

At Surge, we believe that access to drinking water is a fundamental human right, and every individual should have this right without facing financial barriers. Therefore, we deliver programs that provide free or affordable drinking water to everyone, particularly those in marginalized communities.

However, we also recognize the importance of sustainable water management and the need for appropriate funding models to maintain water infrastructure and ensure the continuous supply. To promote community ownership of Surge’s solutions, we have a cost sharing model. Communities contribute via labor, materials and the ongoing maintenance. Once the solution (well, rainwater tank, etc.) is ready for use, the local village team responsible for its management typically sets an affordable fee for water use. The funds collected help with the ongoing maintenance, sustainability and longevity of the solution.

Lack of access to safe water leads to a wide range of health, education and economic issues. By ensuring that drinking water is easily and affordably available we can create a healthier and more sustainable future for communities worldwide.

Thomas Schumann

Project Greenland Inc CEO

What are the challenges of access to water in your region?

Groundwater over depletion, lack of rainwater harvesting, lack of “reduce, reuse, recycle”, severe resource mismanagement, outdated/antiquated water infrastructure, heavy resource loss and waste.

In your opinion, what countries would benefit from innovative reuse, recycling, and/or desalination to quality and treatment?

All countries benefit immediately from innovative reuse, reduce, recycling. Desalination is called to evolve ASAP to become environmentally and financially responsible and sustainable if it should remain to serve as one solution of many to accelerate SDG 6, “Water Security”.

What are you doing to promote sustainable drinking water supplies?

Project Greenland offers reliable, sustainable, longterm super premium Greenland freshwater in dedicated 50,000,000 liters vessels to corporates and sovereigns in drought stricken regions to immediately augment their freshwater supply gap for more than 20 years.

Do you think that drinking water should be free for everyone?

No. Drinking water requires the immediate establishment of a fair global price that enforces utmost water stewardship of our single most precious resource aside from clean air. This price needs to represent the total (unsubsidized) cost of sustainably sourcing and providing drinking water to 8 billion stakeholders aligned with SDG 6. Unfortunately human psychology and behavior does (still) not value, respect, appreciate and treasure precious resources that are “free”.

What do you think the drinking water situation will be like 50 years from now?

If we fail to immediately act on water stewardship, fail to invest in water security, fail to reuse, reduce, recycle, fail to implement best water law, governance, policies and fail to escalate freshwater security as the single most important challenge and opportunity of our times, the drinking water situation in 50 years will be dire to say the least.

What is the need for reuse, recycling, and desalination to quality and treatment?

Desalination is inferior to any and all natural freshwater resources. If oceans were meant for drinking water, they would not contain high salinity.

Technology and Innovation

Breaking the glass ceiling on water technology

Marmon Industrial Water

Website URL: marmonindustrialwater.com

Product Name: Graver Mobile Powdex®

Product Details:

Responding to growing demand for process water treatment flexibility, Marmon Industrial Water introduces the Graver Mobile Powdex®. As the first precoat filter demineralizer on wheels, the system will allow plants to reuse and recover steam condensate on an as-needed basis, providing water, energy and capital savings across the manufacturing sector.

Olpas

Website URL: olpas.tech

Product Name: Olpas sensors for sludge dewatering

Product Details:

The innovative Olpas sensor technology is designed to accurately measure 4 vital parameters in sludge dewatering: (1) incoming sludge concentration (TSS), (2) centrate TSS, (3) centrate polymer concentration, and (4) dry solids in sludge cake. Enhance the dewatering process efficiency for a fraction of the cost (both CapEx and OpEx) of traditional measuring solutions.

Energy Recovery

Website URL: energyrecovery.com

Product Name: Energy Recovery PX U Series Pressure Exchangers

Product Details:

The newly expanded line of U Series pressure exchangers uses cutting-edge energy recovery technology to reduce energy consumption and operating costs in Ultra High Pressure Reverse Osmosis (UHPRO) water treatment. These efficient, modular devices are also critical in cost-effectively meeting Zero or Minimal Liquid Discharge (ZLD or MLD) requirements.

Klar2O GmbH

Website URL: klar2o.de

Product Name: Klar2O Smart Surface Technology

Product Details:

At Klar2O we developed a regenerative and recyclable Smart Surface Technology to filter all microplastics out of water by using molecular forces. Klar2O circular economy allows our filter media to be regenerated and used again, recycling the filtered microplastics to achieve the highest sustainability impact with Zero Waste.

Droople

Website URL: droople.com

Product Name: Droople iLink and Water Intelligence Platform

Product Details:

Our IoT/AI-based systems accurately measure and analyze water usage data at any point of use, allowing users to monitor them, predict maintenance and enable water and energy savings. Our solutions are tailored and designed for water intensive industry sectors, optimizing water usage to save both costs and the planet.

2 S Water Incorporated

Website URL: 2swater.com

Product Name: AquaValid

Product Details:

Detecting metal contamination in water in real time. Allowing the data to be available to SCADA systems to allow water treatment to react to real time changes in the source water.

Shayp

Website URL: shayp.com

Product Name: 2ZERO

Product Details:

2ZERO is Shayp’s flagship product that is an ai-powered water efficiency technology for buildings and helps detect customer-side leakages. Shayp offers a solution for large real estate owners, property managers and also water utilities, which can distribute this technology to their end-users.

IDE Technologies

Website URL ide-tech.com

Product Name: MAXH2O Desalter

Product Details:

The MAXH2O Desalter is a reverse osmosis system with an integrated salt precipitation cycle, allowing continuous cycles through the RO system until maximum mechanical brine osmotic pressure is reached. The MAXH2O Desalter helps businesses reduce water treatment operational costs, increase water recovery and meet industrial water disposal regulations in full.

Oneka Technologies

Website URL: onekawater.com

Product Name: Iceberg wave-powered desalination buoy from Oneka Technologies

Product Details:

The Iceberg buoy serves small coastal communities and industries facing water shortages. Oneka’s projects are scalable and consist of several Iceberg buoys, each supplying up to 50,000L of water per day. These buoys emit no GHGs, require no land space and operate in synergy with marine environments.

Aqua Membranes

Website URL: aquamembranes.com

Product Name: ConZerv

Product Details:

ConZerv is a next generation product that provides exceptional energy savings and system productivity using Patented Printed Spacer Technology®. Whether you want to optimize your existing system or switch RO elements for a new system, use ConZerv to take any system into the next generation reverse osmosis technology.

Aqua Metrology Systems

Website URL: aquametrologysystems

Product Name: SafeGuard™ H2O

Product Details:

SafeGuard™ H2O, a fully automated system generating a ferrous/stannous based water treatment reagent on-site and on demand. The system also features real-time online monitoring of contaminant levels to optimize treatment and ensure compliance. Designed to remove a range of heavy metals and nutrients, SafeGuard™ H2O removes contaminants with high efficiency.

Ovarro LD Limited

Website URL: ovarro.com

Product Name: Enigma

Product Details:

Enigma is the best in class correlating noise logger. Deployed using our EnigmaGO app to listen overnight, the data is automatically analysed in our Atrium cloud platform to accurately pin-point the location of a leak in the pipe network.

Aquatic Informatics

Website URL: aquaticinformatics.com

Product Name: Rio

Product Details:

This cloud-based software solution automates daily workflows for water and wastewater utilities making operations and compliance easier. By integrating data sources like SCADA, LIMS, process, field, and more, operators can streamline workflows and reduce manual entry. Rio’s calculation validation engine generates reliable, accurate reports for regulatory requirements and internal operations.

Ketos

Website URL: ketos.co

Product Name: KETOS SHIELD

Product Details:

KETOS is a fully integrated water quality monitoring solution that provides lab-accurate, real-time water quality data. Operators can remotely monitor 30+ water quality parameters, including heavy metals, and ensure that water used in industrial, municipal, and indoor applications meets specific compliance, safety, and sustainability standards.

HP Now

Website URL: hpnow.eu

Product Name: HPGen

Product Details:

HPNow’s proprietary, IP protected technology enables highefficiency, safe, direct electrochemical synthesis of high-purity hydrogen peroxide from only water, electricity and air. Using only benign water and oxygen as inputs, HPGen produces pure, safe, low concentration hydrogen peroxide, which breaks back down to pure water and oxygen following use.