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As leading corporations shift to restorative production, water engineers will find themselves at the center of the first wave. Almost ...
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Is water the natural starting point for the circular economy? Eliminating waste is one of the magical overlaps between business ...
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As US infrastructure crumbles and water supplies dwindle, the cities that are leading deployment of distributed water solutions are finding ...
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Water engineers fashioned California into an agricultural giant and built some of the world’s greatest cities through monumental infrastructure projects, from ...
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California thrust its water utilities front and center during the recent drought. Water utility managers, who had been accustomed to working ...
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Cleantech investors have been stymied by the US water market. In 2015, water tech accounted for only 2.2% of cleantech ...
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As Hawaii's cooling tradewinds have faltered and ocean temperatures rise, Hawaii's leadership moved earlier this year to invest a significant chunk ...
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In the densely packed megacities of the future, warming climates and rising incomes will make cooling a decisive factor--- for ...
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California prides itself on being the global hub for tech innovation, and it has been aiming to accelerate use of cutting-edge technology ...
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While press attention focuses upon the challenges to worldwide stability from the Middle East and Africa, the US military is also ...
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Water management will be critical to the US to realize the "once-in-a-generation opportunity" brought by innovations in unconventional oil and ...
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As California counts its water reserves in months, which "shovel ready" solutions can help it respond? More than $320M of ...
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Apple extended its leadership in sustainable water on Tuesday when Santa Clara Valley Water District voted to approve a $17.5 ...
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For a start-up to succeed, it needs a well defined map of the world.  That map needs to be as ...
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A new study from Stanford breaks new ground in defining the gap in water innovation, and proposes how the US ...
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Facebook COO Cheryl Sandberg, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and California Governor Jerry Brown made a unique appearance on Monday ...
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Roger Sorkin is aiming for his new documentary, The Burden to take a place beside The Inconvenient Truth as a harbinger of a new ...
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Melesse Temescan is one example of the new breed of entrepreneurs emerging with promising water technologies out of the places ...
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The Ag Innovation Showcase brought together leading crop science companies, investors and promising start-ups earlier this week in St. Louis. I ...
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Young companies are struggling to introduce new tech solutions and new ways of working with water through existing market channels: ...
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I am flying from the Silicon Valley to Stockholm to bring a new breed of start ups to International Water ...
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For tech companies that are breaking new ground in the way we manage water, branding can be decisive.  Lynn Nichols ...
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What brought you to found Desalitech? I watched my father develop a new desalination technology that seemed like an elegant ...
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Even today, when businesses operate as if water is cheap and abundant, water tech solutions provide strategic value within mission-critical facilities ...
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What does Miox do? MIOX was founded around the idea that smart onsite solutions would drive the future of water ...
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We don’t hear much about the benefits of solar power as a water saver, but solar and other renewables will ...
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Eric retired in 2007 after 25 years of service in the US Navy that included 18 deployments and three wars ...
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Water emerges as the new US military imperative The high profile successes of the US Department of Defense (DoD) Energy ...
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Korean chemicals giant LG Chem’s announcement that it is purchasing NanoH20 adds a new chapter to that company’s rise from a ...
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Cleantech continues to be a catalyst for water technologies.  While water didn't make the agenda at the latest Cleantech Forum last ...
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The perils of launching in the Chinese market have stymied even the most powerful technology companies as well as some ...
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China is a central issue for water tech growth companies. It is set to be the epicenter of water innovation ...
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While great water tech start-up IPO stories didn’t pepper the news sites this year, four watershed events from 2013 will ...
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Disruptive technologies don't conquer their markets until they redefine their marketplace.  When that happens, mastery of that new paradigm redefines ...
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Innovation guru Clay Christensen lays out a compelling argument for innovative operations when disruptive technology gains wide scale adoption. In ...
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Disruptive innovation returns Texas to its oil and gas leadership. In its latest report “Game Changers: Opportunities for US growth ...
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One of the most exciting things that I saw at WEFTEC this week was the new LIFT program (Leaders Innovation ...
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Our research of the Artemis Top 50 shows that the biggest utilities leading the industry in research and pilots have ...
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On September 2, 2013 in Stockholm, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), ...
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America is falling behind in the race to build the “high tech” water economy that will drive economic growth in ...
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The following appeared in the Wall Street Journal on September 11, 2011 By YULIYA CHERNOVA  Joe Duty BY THE TRUCKLOAD With fracking's ...
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Early-stage investment dollars are like yeast for a start-up.  There hasn't been much of that kind of yeast in water ...
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Last November in Washington DC, Laura Shenkar joined Jon Freedman of GE Power & Water, David Hughes of American Water, ...
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Farming built California. Today, California farms provide over 50% of the US's crop production, and 80% of all fruit and ...
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Water technology is destined to be one of the great tech investment opportunities of the next decade. With a limited ...
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Two questions that tell us when the time has come for high-tech water Water technology is destined to be one ...
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Each year since 2009, the Artemis Water Tech Top 50 Review has identified 50 companies that show the promise of ...
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Peter Gleick, one of the leading visionaries on the future of water, came to speak at the fourth Artemis Top ...
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Continued Success by Top 50 Water Tech Competition Winners Final applications for the 2012 Top 50 will be sent out ...
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This morning, Chris Morrison, VP of Strategic Sales at Nalco, an Ecolab company, spoke at the Top 50 Fellows’ Forum ...
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Water Tech Start-Ups coming out at Singapore International Water Week Last week Laura Shenkar led the first-ever boot-camp for water-technology ...
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How New Water Tech Uses Wastewater To Meet Energy Needs Clean water and energy are limited resources under increasing demand, ...
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Following The Water Tech Industry's New Leaders The 2011 Artemis Top 50 are showing leadership in the water tech industry ...
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SIWW is part of the government of Singapore's integrated strategy for building a world-class water tech center, a Silicon Valley ...
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2011 was not kind to water tech start ups. We estimate that total venture funding for the year dropped to ...
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Bringing forth the “gee-whiz” water innovations of today and making them the iPhones of the future has a lot to ...
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The following appeared in the Wall Street Journal By YULIYA CHERNOVA Joe Duty BY THE TRUCKLOAD With fracking's growth, tankers ...
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The following appeared in Forbes As U.S. shale gas resources and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, have entered the national consciousness, ...
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A new measure imposed by Pennsylvania regulators to stop natural gas drillers from disposing harmful wastewater at treatment plants has ...
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Artemis Water Strategy, a boutique consulting practice dedicated to helping companies thrive in a world of increasing water scarcity, announces ...
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The risk of water shortages to business was first identified three years ago at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. Since ...
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Water is a unique area of technological innovation.  Given the dangers that water scarcity and infrastructure breakdown pose to businesses and ...
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During the 20th century, high tech proved to be an enormous source for economic growth. Venture-funded start-ups like Intel, Juniper ...
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"Artemis Water Strategy, a boutique consulting practice dedicated to helping companies thrive in a world of increasing water scarcity, has ...
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS New York's state assembly passed a limited ban on hydraulic fracturing Also known as "fracking," it's a controversial ...
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by Garrett Miller, Director of Sustainability Solution Management, SAPMany of us have heard pundits claiming, “water is the new gold.” ...
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We're delighted to have had one our webinars—"The Art & Alchemy of the Exit"—featured in the latest issue of American ...
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This year has seen an unprecedented number of challenges and disasters – the Massey coal mine collapse, the Senate’s failure ...
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Artemis Project Top 50 winner Takadu was mentioned in the Economist special report titled "It's a Smart World" highlighting emerging ...
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Artemis Project Top 50 winner Takadu was mentioned in the Economist special report titled “It’s a Smart World” highlighting emerging ...
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When water is cheap and abundant, why should corporations be planning their water management strategy for a thirsty future?"The Corporate ...
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By Leslie Guevarra Published September 22, 2010 When access to water seems cheap and easy, why should companies cut or ...
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The transaction that brings a premium to investors and founders of a great technology company is one of the company's ...
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Utility managers like Eric Rosenblum and Ron Zegers are part of a small cadre of experienced leaders within the water ...
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The Shanghai Tower will serve as a mammoth 125-floor rainwater harvesting structure. The breathtaking outside shell borrows the best designs ...
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GoingGreen Silicon Valley is where cutting-edge greentech CEOs, along with movers and shakers from the biggest industries on earth, meet ...
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In the face of scarcity and infrastructure breakdown, some of the most promising advanced water tech companies are providing new ...
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The second annual Water Innovations Summit will take place in Chicago on September 28-29, 2010 at McCormick Place. Keynotes include ...
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Population growth and industrial development continues to drive competition for scarce water resources around the world. Now more than ever, ...
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The most common question I field when I mention desalination is, "Doesn't that take a lot of energy?" The truth ...
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Water treatment and delivery systems were built for steady, predictable operation. In the face of water scarcity and budget cuts, ...
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Everywhere you look people are trying to do more with less. Reduce costs, increase efficiency, reduce energy use, recover resources ...
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Researchers in Delaware are worried by high levels of nitrates recently discovered in groundwater and drinking water. A recent study ...
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Climate legislation in the United States just went up in a cloud of CO2. Again. Which doesn't for one second ...
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Concrete. There's a lot of it on earth. Pretty much every paradise has its parking lot. And its big-box store, ...
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At The Artemis Project, we tend to prefer solutions that solve multiple problems at once. Hence we love Ostara's nutrient ...
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In my previous post I introduced the PLUS framework for water-technology scalability, and expanded upon the first two attributes: Software ...
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Speaking of Resource Recovery, Canadian company BioteQ Environmental Technologies, Inc has announced plans to build a wastewater treatment plant at ...
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Around the globe, a growing number of advanced water technologies are recovering valuable minerals and resources from waste water. The ...
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The Artemis Project, our parent firm, is hosting a webinar tomorrow that will gather an diverse group of experts to ...
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The first in a two part series, Guy Horowitz shares experience gained from TaKaDu's recent successes scaling their water technology ...
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Ecosphere Technologies' agreement with Mid-Gulf Recovery Services has developed into a contract announced July 8th. The contract stipulates two Ozonix ...
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Editor's note: The energy exploration industry is the first to demand advanced water technology for economic reasons: water efficiency during ...
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There's an increasing concensus that natural gas will be America's half-way house as we kick our fossil fuel habit. The ...
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TaKaDu, who we've written about previously here and here, recently announced they've partnered with Schneider Electric, a global energy management ...
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Here's some good news for advanced desalination technology companies.Worldwide desalting capacity is projected to increase by 50 million cubic meters ...
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Monitoring corporate water use is about to get very simple for Sustainability Managers. Google announced last Thursday they're looking to ...
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Seven weeks after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, oil slicks have inundated the shores of mainland United ...
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Another Artemis Top 50 Company is deploying their technology to the Gulf to aid clean up of the still growing ...
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Between 1997 and 2007 water supplies in Perth, the capital and largest city in Western Australia, decreased by 65%, leading ...
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In one hour last Wednesday 1.58 inches (4 cm) of rain fell in Marysville, Washington, near Seattle. The deluge overwhelmed ...
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The Cost of Waste Treating wastewater is expensive. Yet, 70% of the cost to run a wastewater treatment plant is ...
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If the Blue Tech Innovation Forum is any sign, the BlueTech industry will soon see rapid growth fueled by an ...
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According to a geologist quoted recently by Discovery News, that Giant sinkhole in Guatemala city isn't a "sinkhole" -- it's ...
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Results for the second annual Artemis Top 50 Company competition were announced at the conclusion of the Blue Tech Innovation ...
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Co-chaired by Laura Shenkar of the Artemis Project and Paul O’Callahan of O2 Environmental Inc., the BlueTech Innovation Forum was ...
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Though Smart Water offers equal or potentially greater benefits than Smart Energy, Smart Water isn't getting equal coverage. It’s been ...
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As we mentioned previously, a Phoenix based company called AbTech has the technology and the production capacity to protect Louisiana's ...
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Washington, DC Corporate WaterVision will bring global market leaders together to share their plans, policies, and initiatives for handling water ...
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Vikram Rao is Executive Director at Research Triangle Energy Consortium and a former CTO of Halliburton. He will present a ...
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I had a chance to sit down with Peter Williams, CTO of IBM's Big Green Innovation Unit. We discussed Smart ...
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Say you caught an elevator ride with the President -- you've got 45 seconds to say something. What would it ...
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The cleanup of the April 20th BP oil spill is getting desperate. Shrimp boats are collecting as much oil as ...
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When the Massey coal mine exploded last month, other mines continued to produce. When an oil platform in the Gulf ...
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Water scarcity now presents a top threat to business. Growing industries – from manufacturing to high-tech to energy production – ...
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In the past 15 to 20 years, mainstream cooling water treatment technology focused on better chemical additives – typically polymers ...
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Water is key to life, but it also runs a lot of businesses. You might not see water behind your ...
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Water scarcity now presents a top threat to business. Growing industries—from manufacturing to high-tech to energy production—require new water strategies ...
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Menlo Park, CA Nordic Green II is a follow up to a very successful conference in 2008 and this Spring ...
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The BlueTech Blog is an open forum for commentaries in the world of innovative water technology. Leaders in the field ...
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The Dire Need for Water Efficiency Technology in Indian Agriculture By Caroline Howe March 22 was World Water Day and ...
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A decade ago in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, I wandered with my bodyboard through the verdant paradise of a beachfront resort ...
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San Jose, CA On Wednesday February 3rd, Laura will participate in a panel discussion on “The Most Exciting Avenues of ...
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San Francisco, CA At the December conference, Laura presented a view of the technologies that can help businesses address the ...
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THE INTERNATIONAL WATER TECHNOLOGIES & ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE, Tel Aviv, Israel Hosted in the country regarded as the ...
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Orlando, FL WEFTEC, North America’s largest conference of its kind, offers water quality education and training to more than 2,000 ...
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Cavallo Point, San Francisco, CA At GoingGreen West, 700 industry leading CEOs from greentech companies across the board meet venture ...
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WEBINAR MAY 29, 2009 – Read more about the series 11am PDT/2pm EST Economically crippling drought conditions threaten more than ...
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May 2009 Over a hundred years ago, Henry Ford transformed the automobile from a custom-made, luxury item to a low-cost, ...
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CALIFORNIA CLEAN INNOVATION CENTER, La Jolla, CA University of California San Diego The CACI conference provides an opportunity for attendees ...
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Four Seasons Hotel, Boston, MA Like its sister event in San Francisco, GoingGreen East is where cutting-edge greentech CEOs meet ...
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March 2009 Paul O’Callaghan, CEO of O2 Environmental writes: “Investment in water deals represented just 1.8% of the total investment ...
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March 2009 This white paper summarizes national standards for onsite water recycling quality. Decentralized water systems are central to the ...
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HOW A LOOMING WATER CRISIS AFFECTS OUR WORLD AND HOW TO OPTIMIZE THE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, Atlanta, GA Laura Shenkar will ...
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Palo Alto, CA Partnership opportunities for the leading Danish water companies, from Grundfos, the largest pump manufacturer in the world ...
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Hyatt Regency McCormick Place 2233 South Martin L. King Drive, Chicago, Illinois Sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Industry and ...
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San Francisco, CA The premier green technology venture investment conference. GoingGreen brings the elite of the venture investment community in ...
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND FLOOD MANAGEMENT WEBINAR 7:30-9:30am PST, 4:30-6:30pm CEST Climate change is creating new challenges and risks, but also ...
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April 2008 Can the water industry borrow go-to-market tricks from others cleantech sectors? Laura Shenkar of The Artemis Project thinks ...
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After Going Green — What Kinds of Water Technology We Might See Next Year A Green Tech Conference’s Maiden Voyage ...
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www.e2.org Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Improved Water Policy for Environmental Entrepreneurs Laura co-authored a study that quantitatively evaluated the ...
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