Re-inventing WaterCurrent and Future Trends in

Water and Wastewater Technologies

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Water is a Local Issue

Providing Water Services…Without Water

Re-thinking Water Systems Efficiency

Urban Water Solutions

• Municipal and urban water systems represent 92% of the value of the global water market

• Technology opportunities– Re-invent the urban

water system– Current system is

inefficient and wasteful

Global Water Use

Agriculture

70%

Energy & Industry

22%

Municipal & Urban

8%

Municipal & Urban8% En

ergy & In-dustry22%

Agriculture70%

Agriculture $9.5Bn (2%)

Energy & Industry $23Bn (6%)

Municipal & Urban $368Bn (92%)

Global Water Usage Global Water Market

Intelligent Design or Evolution?

Past, Present, Future(source: adapted from Glen T. Daigger, WEFTEC, 2008)

1850 water closet (WC) and sewer adopted

1914 activated sludge wastewater treatment process invented

ThenPopulation <2 billion and mostly rural, without modern technology

Today 6 billion people, mostly urban, experiencing energy & resource constraints

Future Population & urbanisation are set to increase

Innovative Companies Tracked by Application Area

Next Generation Sensors

• Advances in information technology and sensors is transferring across into the water industry

• Operational costs - where the money is: sensors and automated control systems offer the potential to access “operational dollars – without becoming an operator”

Global Water OPEX

Operational Expenditure,

$189.7Bn

Capital Expenditure,

$164.3Bn

Capital Expenditure,

$9.7Bn Operational Expenditure,

$13.3Bn

Utility Market OPEX – 53%

Industrial Market OPEX – 57%

Energy-Water-Waste Nexus- Hot Spot of Innovation

Energy from Wastewater

Resource Recovery

Decentralised Treatment & Water Re-use

THERE IS ENERGY IN WASTEWATER

Energy-Water-Waste Nexus- Hot Spot of Innovation

There is energy in wastewater!

The energy in wastewater produced by one person each day could power a 100-watt light bulb

for five hours.

Utilized: 12%Not Utilized: 88%

Treated Ef-fluent2% Biogas

17%

Sludge45%

CO236%

Flared 67%

Utilized33%

Incineration15%

Landfill37%

Beneficial Re-use 49%

49 Million MWhr in USA Municipal Wastewater

Total USA Municipal WWT Wastewater Energy Input

Biogas

Sludge

WWTP

Source: BlueTech Research Insight Report

Phosphorous Recovery

• Every person produces approx. 1.2kg P/annum

• The UK then has approx. 72,000 tonnes P in wastewater from humans

• This has a market value US$168M/annum

52%

37%

34%

63% is landfilled or incinerated

66% to agriculture, industry, etc.

48% is discharged in the effluent*

Phosphorous Recovery in Europe(Source BlueTech Insight Report 2012)

EU27 imports 3,400,000 tonnes of P2O5 /yr

[100% of Total Imported P2O5]

Approx. 1,145,000 tonnes P2O5/year goes into the EU27 wastewater

[34% of Total Imported P2O5]

Approx. 595,000 tonnes P2O5/year goes into biosolids (sludge)

[18% of Total Imported P2O5]

Approx. 220,000 tonnes P2O5/year gets recycled to

farmland in biosolids

[7% of Total Imported P2O5]

*in absence of P recovery

Re-inventing the water industry

The water industry is undergoing a period of re-invention both from within and without.New

Entrants

Tectonic Shifts

New Thinking

Technology Opportunities

BlueTech Tracker Companies:Number of Employees per Company

<519%

5-3056%

30-10018%

100+7%

How is the water technology market likely to change?

• Pressures are driving early adopters

• New technologies will then move to the ‘early majority’ section of the market

• Overall, the rate of adoption of new solutions will accelerate

What technologies are we likely to see?

• Technologies that

– deal with water issues locally

– that use butter knives, instead of chain-saws

– which provide water services, without using potable water, or using less water

Straws in the Wind

• Increase in research – Up 30% each year between 2000 & 2009 (Elsevier)

• Increase in patent filings– Desalination technology patents in 2010 almost

double those in 2005 (BlueTech Research)

• Investments and acquisitions– 2009 - record high, 50 deals, 60% early-stage (Cleantech)

• Water Centres for Excellence & Research Centres– Proliferating at an alarming rate

• Water Conferences

When there is

Big Change,

there is

Big Opportunity.

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