Collaboration was cited as the important thing to success for the seven winners of the 2023 Lighthouse Awards, which have been offered throughout BlueTech Discussion board in Edinburgh, Scotland. The teams – “pioneers and visionaries inside the water sector” – have been recognised at a ceremony held on the Nationwide Museum of Scotland on seventeenth Could.
Initiatives for the oil & gasoline, meals & beverage, pharmaceutical and water utility sectors have been all profitable. Applied sciences included water reuse, water restoration by means of zero liquid discharge and digital stormwater administration. A documentary charting water shortage and a collaborative accelerator programme for know-how startups have been additionally award winners.
The Courageous Blue World Basis launched the Lighthouse Awards in 2020 to recognise firms and utilities which might be lowering affect in water confused areas, together with these implementing round practices, and establishing bold targets with tangible timelines.
Paul O’Callaghan, chief govt of BlueTech Analysis, which hosted the Discussion board, and a consultant of the Courageous Blue World Basis stated, “Congratulations to all of the winners of this yr’s Lighthouse Awards. All of them mirror the extent and new wave of innovation occurring now in digital and technological transformation.
“The standard of the improvements and storytelling showcased was very excessive and one of many issues we’re most happy with is how clear and powerful their worth propositions are. We all know they may all go on to vary the panorama of water administration as in addition they match intently with the theme of this yr’s BlueTech Discussion board – innovation with affect.”
Lighthouse Award winners
AB InBev 100+ Accelerator
This innovation programme to gas the expansion of startups was established by AB InBev, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, and Unilever in 2018, with the purpose of connecting international firms with revolutionary entrepreneurs growing break although developments for water stewardship and sustainability.
Accepting the award, Molun Zhang, R&D senior supervisor – experimentation and exterior know-how acquisition on the Coca-Cola Firm stated, “The programme is a three way partnership throughout many industries and plenty of thought-leaders; it’s a actual achievement to win this award. We’d not be right here with out the startups and innovators themselves and we at all times invite others to hitch them.”
Ecopetrol
Columbia-based power firm Ecopetrol received a Lighthouse Award for the event of a pilot agri-energy wastewater reuse undertaking. Treating wastewater from oil & gasoline manufacturing to a top quality and returning it to the atmosphere to be used in livestock watering and forestry helps to enhance water safety, stabilise seasonal variability for customers, and is lowering Ecopetrol’s water footprint to attain water neutrality by 2045.
Giovanni Annicchiar, head of manufacturing at Ecopetrol stated, “Now now we have new challenges to be much more sustainable, not solely within the oil trade however as a society. That’s the reason we have to face these challenges with totally different factors of view, totally different processes, and with an built-in view.”
Grundfos Basis
The Grundfos Basis developed a movie brief charting the true story of the water shortage struggles in Karachi, Pakistan. Into Mud, a collaboration between Academy Award profitable filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel and the Karachi-based NGO Orangi Pilot Venture, tells the story of Perween Rahman a brave girl who sacrificed every little thing to offer Karachi’s poorest communities with clear, protected water.
Aquatech
Know-how firm Aquatech received for its extraordinary collaboration with pharmaceutical firm ACG to get well greater than 95% of the water at its plant in India, utilizing Aquatech’s zero liquid discharge know-how.
Pepsico
Meals and beverage company Pepsico received with a know-how that recovers as much as 60% of the water utilized in its potato chip manufacturing line. By capturing, condensing, treating, and reusing steam, the corporate is saving 60 million litres of water yearly.
Aarhus Vand
Dutch water utility Aarhus Vand received with its plans to transform an current wastewater remedy plant right into a water useful resource restoration facility, recovering biofuels, bio-charcoal, and soil conditioner from wastewater.
Walmart and Opti
A collaboration between grocery store chain Walmart and stormwater administration firm Opti secured the ultimate Lighthouse Award for its undertaking utilizing real-time monitoring and digital management methods to scale back pollution discharged from stormwater retention ponds, throughout three websites within the US.
