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Brave New World Global Water Summit 2012 Brave new world Global water summit 2012 Cavalieri Hotel, Rome Presented by Global Water Intelligence and the International Desalination Association ROME Global water summit 2012 Brave new world Brave new world Water performer of the year What are the best utilities doing to improve their performance? Which entrepreneurs are making the biggest impact on the way the world of water works? We shortlisted five water sector performers from Foreword around the world that have made a difference. Each initiative is presented in the quick-fire 8 minute Pecha Kucha format, followed by questions from panel. The audience then votes for the 2012 Water Performance Initiative Everyone is looking for a better story for ironically). Aldous Huxley also used the phrase “Water performer of the year” event. For Genomics, we’re working on all of these,” he of the Year. Speakers include Patrick Lorin, General Director, and Hasmik Harutyunyan, Public Relations Director, Armenian Water & Sewerage Com the water sector. Other industries seem to with irony for the title of his 1932 dystopian this, five utilities were selected from around the explained. It really is a brave new world and pany Fahad Aljurish, Senior Manager, IT, The National Water Company, Saudi Arabia Panel members: Oscar Chu, Deputy General Manager, Olivia Jensen, Global Water Intelligence The Macao Wat er Supply Co., Ltd Taqsem Khan, Dhaka WASA Gérald Razafinjato, CEO, Sandandrano, Madagascar Khoo Teng Chye, Centre for Liveable Cities Jérôme Douzi read like fairy tales: the telecoms sector, for novel. world which had done most to improve their water is at the very centre of it. ech, CEO, Nuove Acque SpA [ ] example – 30 years ago it was just another performance over the past year. For me it was We chose the title not for its irony (although Dr Venter also agreed to take part in the dull, boring utility, with ageing underground the most uplifting session of the whole event: Water performer of the year, pp 36–51 some cynics might see it that way). We chose “Reuse: Defying the limits of growth” infrastructure struggling to keep up with the here are real transformation stories to inspire it because we wanted to focus on a most session which begins on page 100. The idea demands of the modern economy. Then came the whole industry. The Armenian Water and A brave new world for water excellent future for the water industry. Instead behind this session is that the global economy With all of the challenges facing the water and wastewater sectors, we sometimes lose sight of the mobile phones, liberalisation, the internet, Sewerage Company was the winner. If you read bigger picture. of shipwrecked sailors we brought together is increasingly coming up against the limits of In this unique experiment we bring together an illustrious panel of experts to discuss the question: broadband – and suddenly it was transformed one story in this book read that one. what is our perfect water future? 450 industry leaders: ministers, chief executives, natural resources. In fact this may be the most Each panellist was asked to outline from being a scrappily dressed servant of what their dream water world would brilliant scientists and engineers. The Rome This is followed by a section entitled “A brave important reason for the current economic look like in 25 years, and to spell out a the economy to the major driving force for master plan to make Chaired by Speakers includ Roger Harrabin, it happen. The floor e Gérard Payen, President of AquaFed BBC Environment Analyst Cavalieri Hotel became Prospero’s cell for two new world for water”. It brings together five malaise. Water could be the vector for the [ was then open to Dr Johan Groen, Chief Technology Officer, Xylem ] Julia Bucknall, Water Anchor, World Bank questions. growth. The electricity and gas sectors have Shayo Holloway, Group Managing Director, Lagos State Water Corporation days as we shared our vision for a better future industry luminaries: Gérard Payen of Aquafed, circular economy, providing the medium also been transformed beyond recognition, for the water industry. Dr Johan Goen, who is Chief Technology Officer through which energy and other valuable with liberalisation, combined cycle turbines, Brave new world for water, pp 52–63 at Xylem which is probably the world’s largest resources are recovered. unconventional resources, and the advent of Our three plenary keynote speakers were the water technology company; Julia Bucknall who is renewable energy. former Managing Director of the International This is followed by sections on “Securing the the Water Anchor at the World Bank, and Shayo The 2012 Monetary Fund, Dr John Lipsky; Dr Mihir Middle East’s water future”, inspired by the Global Water The water industry is the only remaining Holloway, who leads one of the world’s largest Awards Shah, who is responsible for water resources changes wrought by the Arab spring; a section The best of the best in the international utility not to go to the ball. There may be water utilities, the Lagos State Water Corporation. water & desalination industries Award categories Water company of the year at India’s powerful Planning Commission; and entitled “Inspiration from industry” looking Desalination company of the year Water deal of the year technological developments such as smart Public water agency of the year Water reuse project of the year Desalination plant of the year Dr Frank Rijsberman, who was at the time The Global Water Awards section highlights at how the municipal sector can learn from Industrial water project of the year Water technology company of the year networks, advanced membranes, and new Water performance initiative of the year Water technology idol Awards presented by head of the Water Hygiene and Sanitation the shortlisted and winning companies industrial water users; and a section entitled “10 [ Dr Craig Venter ] biological processes every bit as exciting as initiative at the Gates Foundation. Lipsky’s role nominated for this year’s awards. Again it is questions on the future of desalination”. what we have seen in the other “utility” sectors, Christopher Gasson was to pass on his insight into the future of a great inspiration, although I am very much Also included is a report of this year’s “Water but lack of investment and lack of customer Global Water Awards, pp 64–95 Publisher, Global Water Intelligence the world economy and water’s place within disappointed that we were not able to get technology idol” competition, which pits five engagement has meant that none of these that. Although the outlook for the economy permission to reproduce Dr Craig Venter’s new water technologies against each other and have been pushed to their furthest extent. Reuse: Defying in general is not great, water outperforms, he speech which introduced the event. Venter was a panel of judges. the limits of of public finances Beyond the crisis Instead the challenges the industry is facing opined, because of the growing demand for instrumental in cracking the human genone growth The crisis in public finances is the biggest The last two sessions I took part in. One on Speakers include As we move into the future, how do we Craig Venter, Founder, Chairman and President of J. Craig Venter Institute and issue facing the global deal with the issue of a shrinking founder and CEO of Synthetic Genomics, Inc. water sector today. 90% seem to loom ever larger: scarcity; the lack of investments with a dependable yield. Shah gave sequence and has since developed the concept Katja Hansen, Senior Researcher at the resource base? Cradle to Cradle Chair, Erasmus University of water infrastructure Martijn Kruisweg, Lead, Global Eco- efficiency Improvement Program, AkzoNobel is financed by public “The winning formula” which looks at how To answer this question, Markus Zils, Partner, McKinsey authorities and many are we have gathered being dragged down Keynote address by safe drinking water and sanitation among low an uplifting vision of how India’s water sector of synthetic genomics. In 2010 he announced Dr John Lipsky water technologists, by growing debts and industrialists and stagnant revenues. the public and private sector can work together, visionaries who are working towards the John Lipsky, Former income communities; the steady decay of the will be transformed by new policies over the that he had created the world’s first synthetic idea of a circular Managing Director of economy based on Chaired by the IMF, examines the and the other asking the question “When will recycling and reuse. Usha Rao-Monari of the current economic International Finance Corporation outlook, with particular distribution networks beneath our feet. next decade. Rijsbermann, meanwhile, outlined lifeform, and has since then been looking at [ ] emphasis on the near- term fiscal challenges, water and money meet”. the debate around budgetary austerity how the richest charitable foundation in the how to put this technology to good use. “If and the implications on investment. The idea of this year’s Global Water Summit Defying the limits of growth, pp 100–109 world is approaching hygiene and sanitation we can’t provide enough food, water, fuel and We are still many years away from our brave was to imagine a different narrative for Dr John Lipsky, pp 16–23 in low income countries. It wants to reinvent medicine for 7 billion people, how are we going new world, but we are definitely developing a the water industry: a brave new world. The the toilet: find new technologies which will to do it in 11 years for 8 billion people, and so new narrative for the sector. Come and join Securing the Middle phrase comes from Shakespeare’s Tempest: East’s water future A wind of change has blown across the Middle Planning India’s water future make good sanitation accessible to all without on? This equation is pretty simple and perhaps us in Seville on 22nd and 23rd April 2013 East since January 2011.
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