On at noon on April 29th, 2011 O2 Environmental’s Paul O’Callaghan will be giving a seminar to an intimate group of faculty and doctoral students at Harvard Business School. The Harvard Science-Based Business Initiative sponsors a lunch time seminar on Fridays that brings academic and industry scientists to campus to describe some of the breakthrough ideas that impact current and future businesses.
The presentation is entitled: “Brave Blue World – new trends, emerging technologies and market opportunities.” And the abstract is described below.
For more information about the seminar series – click here.
Brave Blue World – new trends, emerging technologies and market opportunities.
Our current water system is inefficient and wasteful; this paper will outline why we can we can no longer afford such a system, and describe the elements of a new, alternative water systems which are creating a Blue Revolution, new markets and new investment opportunities.
The paper will open with an overview of the water landscape, how water management issues divide up between Urban, Industrial and Agricultural. A potted history of how we arrived at where we are today, future directions and where change is already happening.
The paper will provide an overview of the societal challenges related to water, existing and emerging technologies, R&D directions, market opportunities and factors in adoption of new technologies, where the private sector is investing and where government R&D funding and other support initiatives may make the most difference.
The paper will outline the elements of a new paradigm and why we are closer to this than people think.
Exciting new technology areas of interest, such as Forward Osmosis, Advanced Desalination, Energy & Resource Recovery from wastewater, Decentralised Treatment and Re-use and Smart Infrastructure will be highlighted and discussed.
