Paul O'Callaghan, CEO of BlueTech Research, gives the keynote speech at the Tech Xchange Workshop at Singapore International Water Week 2012.

1. Re-inventing Water
Current and Future Trends in
Water and Wastewater Technologies
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• Large water technology corporations
• Venture capital firms
• Fortune 500 corporations
• Research groups
• Leading consulting engineering practices
• Government agencies
• Universities

5. Reference Clients

6. Brave Blue World

7. Water is a Local Issue

8. Providing Water Services…Without Water

9. Re-thinking Water Systems Efficiency

10. 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

11. Global Water Use
Energy & Municipal
Agriculture Industry & Urban
70% 22% 8%

12. Agriculture Energy & Industry
$9.5Bn (2%) $23Bn (6%)
Municipal
& Urban
8%
Energy &
Industry
22%
Agriculture Municipal & Urban
70% $368Bn (92%)
Global Water Usage Global Water Market

13. Intelligent Design or Evolution?

14. Past, Present, Future
(source: adapted from Glen T. Daigger, WEFTEC, 2008)
1850 Today
water closet (WC) 6 billion people,
and
sewer adopted mostly urban,
experiencing
energy & resource
1914 constraints
activated sludge
wastewater Future
treatment process
invented Population &
urbanisation are
Then set to increase
Population <2 billion
and mostly rural,
without modern
technology

15. Innovative Companies Tracked by
Application Area

16. Next Generation Sensors
• Advances in • Operational costs -
information where the money is:
technology and sensors and
sensors is transferring automated control
across into the water systems offer the
industry potential to access
“operational dollars –
without becoming an
operator”

17. Global Water OPEX
Utility Market Industrial Market
OPEX – 53% OPEX – 57%
Capital
Capital Expenditure,
Expenditure, Operational Operational
Expenditure, $9.7Bn
$164.3Bn Expenditure,
$189.7Bn
$13.3Bn

18. Energy-Water-Waste Nexus
- Hot Spot of Innovation
Energy from Wastewater
Resource Recovery
Decentralised Treatment & Water Re-use

19. 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.
THERE IS ENERGY IN
WASTEWATER

20. Total USA Municipal WWT
Wastewater Energy Input
Treated
Effluent
2% Biogas
17% Utilized
CO2 33%
36%
49 Million
MWhr in USA
Municipal Biogas
WWTP
Wastewater
Flared
67%
Incineration
Sludge 15%
45%
Sludge
Utilized: 12% Beneficial
Re-use
48%
Landfill
Not Utilized: 88% 37%
Source: BlueTech Research Insight Report

21. 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

22. Phosphorous Recovery in Europe
(Source BlueTech Insight Report 2012)
EU27 imports 3,400,000 tonnes of P2O5 /yr
[100% of Total Imported P2O5]
34%
66% to
agriculture, industry, Approx. 1,145,000 tonnes P2O5/year goes into the
etc. EU27 wastewater
[34% of Total Imported P2O5]
52%
48% is discharged in
the effluent*
Approx. 595,000 tonnes P2O5/year
goes into biosolids (sludge)
[18% of Total Imported P2O5]
37%
63% is landfilled or [7% of Total Imported P2O5]
incinerated Approx. 220,000 tonnes
P2O5/year gets recycled to
farmland in biosolids
*in absence of P recovery

23. Re-inventing the water industry
The water
Tectonic Technology
industry is
Shifts Opportunities undergoing
a period of
re-invention
both from
within and
without.
New New
Entrants Thinking

24. BlueTech Tracker Companies:
Number of Employees per Company
100+
7% <5
19%
30-100
18%
5-30
56%

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. Re-inventing Water
When there is
Big Change,
there is
Big Opportunity.

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