by Paul O'Callaghan | Mar 25, 2026 | News
Last week I went skiing. Sitting on chairlifts between runs, with time on my hands, and nothing in them to distract me, I was left to just look around and think. I was struck by the thought that the real gift of skiing, is elevation. Elevation gives perspective. You...
by Paul O'Callaghan | Mar 18, 2026 | News
Each week, at BlueTech, we scan, curate and screen what we see happening in the World of Water to separate truth from noise, fact from fiction and identify what is meaningful. I noted this week: 374Water Announces 5-Year Agreement with the City of Orlando, Approval to...
by Paul O'Callaghan | Mar 9, 2026 | News
The two most commonly held myths about water are: 1. Water will be the next oil 2. The next wars will be fought over water. Only one of which is true. Right now a war is erupting in Iran and spreading right across the entire Middle East. The war may not be about oil,...
by Paul O'Callaghan | Feb 12, 2026 | News
The dust has now settled on what was, undoubtedly, a unique Davos – especially given the overall backdrop of the geo-political tensions around Greenland. It felt surreal to be in a normally unprepossessing skiing village, with world leaders, global corporations and...
by Paul O'Callaghan | Feb 3, 2026 | News
Why did the Aquaporin protein cross the road? To get to the Nobel Prize. Peter Agre was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering aquaporins. The proteins that create highly efficient water channels in our kidneys. So if the discovery warranted a Nobel...
by Paul O'Callaghan | Jan 23, 2026 | News
Airports intrigue me. Fortunately, as I spend a fair bit of time passing through them. They are places where we are all displaced people, not-at-home and not-yet-at our destination. Somewhere in between worlds. Effectively incognito as I chat with strangers pretending...
