I am blogging from the Australian Water Association annual conference, Ozwater, in Sydney. It has been a relatively quiet conference, as the local water industry is in a bit of a hole. Sydney Water has spent all its capex budget on a big desal( which will be mothballed in a couple of months) and is [...]
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I was just watching a video interview with the CEO of TakaDu, a Software As A Service provider of real-time network analysis and reporting services to water utilities. They apply their algorithms to pressure and flow data generated by water utilities’ online meters, then notify the utility when their analysis suggests there is a leak [...]
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Veolia’s terrible earnings results, coming on the back on substantial write-downs, have caused their share price to plunge again, and at time of writing their share price is down close to 50% over a year, and 71% over five years. This is an opportunity for those pushing for a change of approach in the business [...]
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The global water talent market looks increasingly constrained, with a shortage of mid-level talent even in countries with high levels of unemployment. I cannot emphasise enough that you should build high salaries and talent-shortages into your business planning. We are observing the most severe talent shortages in Brazil and China, where it is very difficult for global [...]
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Could China be bypassing the centralised potable water treatment paradigm and skipping straight to POU? I recently attended Aquatech China in Shanghai, the biggest water technology trade show in China. There were hundreds of Chinese membrane manufactures present, with both high-pressure and low-pressure membrane solutions. Most were targeting the domestic market, and it was clear [...]
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The global water industry is going through a transition. A transition from an industry focused on the incremental improvement of a century-old water management paradigm, to an adaptive industry that can manage the rapid and dramatic changes occuring in climate, technology and society. Incremental improvement and rapid adaption require very different leadership approaches, and this has created a leadership deficit throughout the [...]
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The scale of the disaster caused by the Tsunami in Japan last week must be unprecedented in modern times. It is absolutely chilling. As a former long term resident of Japan I have been getting most of my fine-grain news from the facebook updates of friends on the ground in Tokyo and in Chiba and Ibaraki [...]
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In spite of the ongoing rocky global financial situation, H2Otalent has been busy, and the fact that I have not posted to this blog for six months (sorry!) is a good indicator of this. We can largely thank China for this…as a resources industry exposed Asia-Pacific based business we are inside the China growth bubble. [...]
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Watching a video on Circle of Blue recently, one comment jumped out at me. Paul Reiter, Executive Director of the IWA made the point that in industrialised countries, engineers have been so successful in solving two of the main water issues (providing potable water to the home and removing wastewater from the home), that water is no longer front-of-mind for [...]
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Australia has been very successful in driving down potable water consumption through education, restrictions, increasing household efficiency. As a consequence, there has been a substantial change in quantity of water in sewers and the concentration of influent into treatment plants. This has all sorts of implications for sewer design and operation as well as treatment [...]
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