water treatment

In this episode, we explore a deep relationship where a utility and researchers work in partnership to identify and work on a range of water research challenges in water quality, water treatment, and stormwater management.

Our guests, Dr. Graham Gagnon at Dalhousie University and Dr. Wendy Krosek at Halifax Water discuss how they work together, where future
water supply and treatment may lie, and the key ingredients to a successful collaboration, with Stefan Leslie, CEO of Research Nova Scotia.

Find our transcript here: https://www.researchns.ca/beyondresearch-teaming-up-to-manage-water

In Season 3, Episode 5 – Teaming Up to Manage Water, we cover:
03:30 – Understanding the research partnership
05:51 – Importance of water
06:46 – Challenges impacting water and the research need
12:15 – Key ingredients to a successful research partnership model
19:58 – The social dimension and how this work is useful outside of the utility system
24:15 – Future work
27:47 – The next generation

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Dr. Graham Gagnon is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Resource Engineering,
Director of the Centre for Water Resource Studies, and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Dalhousie University.

Dr. Wendy Krkosek is the Water Quality Manager with Halifax Water.

Stefan Leslie is the CEO of Research Nova Scotia.

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Matt explains the contribution the sanitation district provides for its residents and local environment. He discusses some of their ongoing projects and even touches on how serious our water safety is from bad actors. Our host even had an experience on this topic! It’s something we all take for granted but very glad to have!  

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This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Alex Rappaport, the CEO and co-founder of ZwitterCo, a startup that develops technology that filters waste water. Alex talked about how his childhood on the Potomac river inspired his future career in clean water. He also talked about what it was like to build a commercial business off of existing lab research. Lastly, he talks about his fundraising journey and how amateur boxing injuries may have helped his pitch.

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Texas+Water Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Todd Votteler, talks with Scott Bryan, President of Imagine H2O, and Dr. Greg Newbloom, the Founder and CEO of Membrion.  Byran is responsible for leading Imagine H2O in its mission. Since 2010, Imagine H2O has supported over 150 startups and has expanded its programming internationally. Bryan serves on the National Alliance for Water Innovation’s Innovation and Commercialization Council and is an advisor to the Environmental Policy Innovation Center. Greg is the Founder & CEO of Membrion, a clean tech start-up focused on recycling wastewater from harsh industrial processes. Membrion makes ceramic desalination membranes out of the same material as the silica gel desiccant packets found in the bottom of a beef jerky package.

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In this episode, Katie shares how she went from being a benchwarmer to an endurance athlete. She shares the defining moment of running her first mile that led to a shift in her mindset about what she is capable of.

Katie is an endurance athlete, charitable ambassador, author, and world-record holder. 34-year old Katie Spotz, from Cleveland, Ohio, describes herself as having been the “benchwarmer” throughout her life. However, there came a time when she made a discovery: you don’t have to be extraordinary to achieve incredible things. And she set about achieving them, one by one.

The list of accomplishments to Katie's name is long, and includes five ironman triathlon, cycling across America, a 325-mile river swim, running across deserts and a solo row across the Atlantic Ocean. But this wasn’t just any row; when Katie arrived in Guyana, South America, after 70 days at sea, she set a world record for the youngest ever solo ocean rower and first American to row from Africa to South America, some of many records to her name. Most recently, Katie set the Guinness World Record for the most consecutive days to run an ultramarathon distance running 11 ultras in 11 days to fund 11 clean water projects in Uganda. 

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This week, Beer Sessions Radio welcomes two homeschooled brewers — Jeff Lyons from Endless Life Brewing in Brooklyn, and Jaega Wise from Wild Card Brewery in East London, who also happens to be the author of “Wild Brews.” The gang will bang out lessons on homebrewing and sour beers, before revealing the secrets to the water section of Jaega's latest book. 

The episode starts with Jaega’s and Jeff’s introduction to the homebrewing world as well as their backgrounds outside of the beer industry. While Jaega grew up in the Midland region in UK, noted for Burton-on-Trent, with a CAMRA beer festival as her first, Jeff hung out with the Beer Judge Certification Program gang in the back room of Jimmy’s No. 43. Jaega also shared her unexpectedly perfect journey to beerdom, studying chemical engineering and going to water school for her previous job in water treatment. She went on to explain the keys to controlling what she considers the most underappreciated ingredient in brewing — water. 

The gang then goes deeper into sour beer and the history of homebrewing, with Jimmy admitting to only being able to make “the no hygiene beer” inspired by the Victorian era’s Tudor. They also discuss the revival of cask beers along with the brewing scene in London, with a tiny surprise about water in Scotland and whisky distilling. Grab your headset and listen in on the secrets right now!

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Worldwide, 80% of wastewater receives minimal to no treatment before being discharged to the environment. This practice has a ruinous impact on the environment as well as on public health.

Wastewater treatment is also a energy-intensive process. It can account for up to 5% of the country’s annual electricity load being a significant driver of climate change.

In this episode, we will hear from Orianna Bretschger, the CEO and Co-Founder of Aquacycl, a company that provides technologies for safe, reliable and cost-effective wastewater treatment coupled with energy recovery.

Topics we explore:

• Why do water treatment and sanitation still remain big challenges for the humanity?
• The role of water treatment in the global ecosystem and climate change.
• From academia to the startup jungle: Building a business on top of 12 years of research.
• The unfundable: A women-led hardware company raises money in a risk-averse and heavily regulated industry. Mission impossible?

About Orianna Bretschger:

Orianna Bretschger is the CEO and Co-Founder of Aquacycl. It was founded in 2016 with a goal of creating distributed wastewater treatment to address water scarcity and lack of infrastructure in low-income countries. This journey has led the founding team to a deeper understanding of wastewater challenges across many industries.

Prior to forming Aquacycl, Orianna dedicated 12 years to researching how bacteria breathe and eat and developing a technology to control this process electronically. A researcher turned entrepreneur, Orianna is a laureate of the Science & Technology Pioneer Award of the Cartier Women’s Initiative. Orianna is based in California, US.

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Explore Singapore’s water dilemma and solutions together with Aquaporin Asia Deputy Manager Guofei Sun and Shane Allen Snyder, Professor & Executive Director of Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute, part of Nanyang Technological University. Singapore is one of the most water-stressed countries in the world, a place where water is a matter of national security, as the island state doesn’t have access to natural water resources. Therefore, Singapore has to find alternative methods to provide its more than 5 million residents with clean water. 

Snyder introduces Singapore’s four national water taps, highlights some of the innovative solutions the island state has developed to solve local water challenges, and points out how other countries can learn from the way Singapore has managed to turn their vulnerability into a strength.

Sun gives an insight into Aquaporin Asia’s focus areas and how they are contributing to making Singapore a model city for integrated water management, especially when it comes to reducing the energy consumption of water treatment. 

Brooke Mayer is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In this episode of Straight from the Tap, she joins host Debbie Stadtler to discuss water treatment topics including how her research is “inspired by nature" and how water and electricity really do mix. 

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Ben Mohaved, P.E., BCEE, President of WATEK Engineering Corporation in Gaithersburg, MD, talks about membrane technology, reverse osmosis, and PFAS. Mohaved brings over 35 years of expertise in water engineering and membrane technology.  In this interview, he explains how he get started in the water treatment industry and why he volunteers his time to give back. 

Mohaved also touches on sea water reverse osmosis and tighter discharge standards, and shares his ideas on running a company.

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AcceliCITY City Solution of the Year is cleaning our water. 
These days, the increasing contamination of harmful pharmaceutical waste into water supplies has become one of the highest priority issues for cities, which face the daunting task of supplying safe drinking water to hundreds and millions of people. While the common conception is that wastewater treatment plants take care of this issue, in reality pharmaceuticals pass right through water treatment and go on to cause great harm to the environment and those whose drinking water has been contaminated. Listen to Christian Ryen explain how Pharem, a bold Swedish startup that recently won the AcceliCITY City Solution of the Year award, has developed a solution that not just rids our water of pharmaceuticals but does so in a completely natural and passive way. 

This month we take a closer look at desalination of brackish groundwater and/or seawater as a potential solution to augment water supply in the arid southwest. We are joined by Dr. Sam Fernald, Director of the New Mexico State University Water Resources Research Institute, and Dr. Pei Xu researcher and professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at New Mexico State University, who share their current research and thoughts on the future of this technology. Episode art courtesy of Pixabay.

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Almighty Algae. 

This episode of Preview of Tomorrow spotlights Brian Braginton-Smith, president and CEO of AquaGen-ISI, a company offering a sustainable approach to wastewater treatment. AquaGen-ISI’s integrated solution harnesses the natural benefits of algae to produce highly oxygenated clean water while simultaneously reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Additionally, the technology facilitates hydroponics while limiting cost and energy consumption, making it the most viable wastewater treatment system of its kind. 

Like Spring, emails are upon us once again, and this month we talk about such listener-provided topics as the stagnation of flash memory, a Starlink trip report, some of the downsides of PC-building, multithreading video games, TVs that are monitors that are TVs, browser containerization, and the things you find down at the water treatment plant.

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Texas+Water Editor-in-Chief Dr. Todd Votteler talks with Dr. Mike McGuire about the coronavirus and drinking water. As President of Michael J. McGuire, Inc. he has worked for drinking water utilities and consulting firms advising water utilities his entire career. He has worked for the Philadelphia Water Department, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and national consulting engineering firms. McGuire has received the following awards from the American Water Works Association; the George Warren Fuller Award, the A.P. Black Research Award and the Abel Wolman Award of Excellence. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. McGuire has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Drexel University.

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Welcome to WeAreLATech's Startup Spotlight!
“Innovating New Approaches To Membrane-based Water Treatment”

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Host, Espree Devora
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Sivan Sidney Cohen of Noria Water Technologies
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• Expert Dojo, https://expertdojo.com/

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• Produced and Hosted by Espree Devora, http://espreedevora.com
• Story produced, Edited and Mastered by Adam Carroll, http://www.ariacreative.ca/
• Show Notes by Karl Marty, http://karlmarty.com
• Music by Jay Huffman, https://soundcloud.com/jayhuffman

Short Title: Membrane-based Water Treatment