by Paul O'Callaghan | Mar 19, 2025 | News
‘Every river starts clean’. This was one of the most memorable quotes for me from the Drinkable Rivers Roundtable hosted by Li An Phoa, Drinkable Rivers and attended by Cees Buisman, who together are two of my best friends in the world of water and just inspiring...
by Paul O'Callaghan | Mar 10, 2025 | News
It’s not every day you get to meet an Astronaut and spend a day assessing technologies to make water on the dark side of the moon. (Yes, there is frozen water on the moon, tied up in frozen regolith, moon rock. But there are also lots of impurities, more than I...
by Paul O'Callaghan | Feb 20, 2025 | News
The small Portuguese island of Madeira, quite a ways out in the Atlantic, is often known as the ‘Hawaii of Europe’ or ‘land of enternal spring’, and maybe best known to many, as the home of the legendary soccer player Ronaldo. Call it a busman’s holiday, but I...
by Paul O'Callaghan | Jan 28, 2025 | News
The show-stopper BlueTech Analyst Alert last week was: ‘DuPont has canceled its plan to spin off its water treatment division. The company has decided retaining the water business within its portfolio offers greater strategic flexibility and aligns with its...
by Paul O'Callaghan | Jan 26, 2025 | News
“When the facts change, I change my mind” – John Maynard Keynes. A series of Super-forecasting Tipping-Point Analysis Articles in Q1 will address what we believe are some of the most impactful questions for 2025. These will be linked to Watch...
by Paul O'Callaghan | Jan 12, 2025 | News
The wildfires raging in LA, and Alpha Lo’s post below, are a reminder of a mantra a mentor of mine, the late Curt Kerns, would often say with all the conviction of a Pentecostal preacher on the pulpit: “the ground needs water!”. The grand reveal, the epiphany for me...
by Paul O'Callaghan | Dec 29, 2024 | News
Thanks Ali Ling for highlighting this excellent The New York Times article by Hiroko Tabuchi on PFAS in wastewater Biosolids and providing expert insight and commentary for context. The links with PFAS, Biosolids and land application, is interesting and nuanced. It is...
by Paul O'Callaghan | Dec 12, 2024 | News
During preparatory sessions for our Water Panel, we chatted about many things and I found Sabrina to be warm, approachable and possessed of all the skills required to be a respected and effective CEO of Suez. She articulated a strong clear vision, had the right...
