One of my strongest memories from the early days of the membrane industry occurred at the Membrane Technology Conference in Boston in 1988. This annual conference was the ‘must attend’ for the membrane business community, featuring technology presentations combined with […]
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Singapore has always been at the forefront of trends in the water industry, and this year in no exception. Starting next week on 21st June, there will be a two week virtual SIWW conference with 20 webinars timed to try […]
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Micropollutants derived from manmade chemicals and microplastics or microfibres are destined to become a major challenge for the environment and specifically for the water industry in the 21st century. The issue is serious, pervasive, difficult to address, and will have […]
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Two major industrial trends have cast a long shadow over the environment during my working lifetime. The first was the idea of built-in obsolescence which developed in the 1970s. More recently, this has been dubbed premature obsolescence. After the MAD […]
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In June 2017, I met someone from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at a conference. She seemed somewhat bemused at the changes that were starting to be made at her agency following Trump’s election. Political ructions had happened plenty […]
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