I would like to start by explaining what has driven me to set up this blog. After working in the water treatment/environmental industry for over 23 years, I have all of this pent up knowledge and opinions that I need to get out of my system and share with the world. I have been a sponge all of this time and now I would like to share some of the pearls of wisdom I have soaked up!
In my career so far I have probably written about 40 papers and articles and made a similar amount of presentations at industry conferences but these have all been around specific research or projects I have been involved in through my work. And let’s get serious – everyone who presents at a conference or writes an article is trying to sell something... Manufacturers are obviously promoting the benefits of their products, consultants are selling their expertise to potential clients and even academics are validating the value of their research to get funding and attract students.
So in this blog I hope to throw off the shackles of work and the biases that come with it and discuss and give opinions on issues in the water industry that are of interest to me. Maybe I will end up giving someone some good free advice. At a minimum I will get to vent some of my thoughts and ideas and perhaps generate some interesting debate. I may even branch out into other related topics close to my heart such as the sustainability (or not) of new water treatment processes and recycling of wastewater and produced water for high quality applications.
I welcome your opinions, suggestions and questions on any of the topics I choose to blog about. Let’s get started!
