39 min
Episode 4 - Water Treatment with Natalie Fee and Rob Luckwell Innovation: An Endless Pursuit
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In today’s episode of Innovation: An Endless Pursuit we look at a hugely important, yet often underestimated topic, of importance of water treatment. The quality of water in the UK has been some of the best globally for a number of decades, so people just don’t think about it too much.
But ensuring that we provide the best water to our customers is no small feat and it’s our innovations in water treatment that enable us to maintain this high standard.
Innovation in Water Treatment isn’t just about doing what we do better though, it is constantly changing. Our team of experienced water scientists are always on the lookout for things that could impact our water quality and are constantly assessing these to determine where we need to focus our next innovations.
One of the biggest emerging topics at the moment is plastic pollution. Our love of plastic and its indestructible nature has led to its discovery in some of the most unexpected places on earth: at the bottom of the ocean, within Arctic Ice, even inside animals!
It’s an area of increasing importance for the water industry – particularly when considering micro-plastics that can enter water ways – and is leading some to ask questions like “should we begin to regulate for this”.
In this episode Chris speaks with two separate experts to look at both the innovations that we have seen in water treatment and the potential threat that plastic poses to our water supply.
The first half of today’s episode looks at innovation in water treatment with Rob Luckwell, Water Quality Scientist here at Bristol Water. In the second half, Chris talks with Natalie Fee, founder of City to Sea, and discusses the scale of the plastic problem and what we can do to reduce the impact on our water environrments.
We hope you enjoy listening to this episode and look forward to hearing what you think of it.
About today’s guests:
Natalie Fee:
Natalie is an award-winning environmentalist, author, speaker and founder of City to Sea, a UK-based organisation running campaigns to stop plastic pollution at source. In 2018 Natalie was listed as one of the UK’s ‘50 New Radicals’ by The Observer / Nesta and in the same year the University of the West of England awarded her the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science in recognition of her campaign work. She won the Sheila McKechnie Award for Environmental Justice in 2017 for City to Sea's #SwitchtheStick campaign and is proud to have been named Bristol 24/7’s Woman of the Year for 2018.
Her book, How to Save the World for Free is due out October 2019. She can be found on Instagram as nataliefee_ and on Twitter as nataliefee
Rob Luckwell:
After 15 years on the job, Rob is an expert in treatment process operation and optimisation; he has a passion for customer engagement and educating on the value of water. In fact, one of his recent accolades, in 2019 Rob was awarded an outstanding business advocate award by the Lord Mayor of Bristol for services to local communities.
In today’s episode of Innovation: An Endless Pursuit we look at a hugely important, yet often underestimated topic, of importance of water treatment. The quality of water in the UK has been some of the best globally for a number of decades, so people just don’t think about it too much.
But ensuring that we provide the best water to our customers is no small feat and it’s our innovations in water treatment that enable us to maintain this high standard.
Innovation in Water Treatment isn’t just about doing what we do better though, it is constantly changing. Our team of experienced water scientists are always on the lookout for things that could impact our water quality and are constantly assessing these to determine where we need to focus our next innovations.
One of the biggest emerging topics at the moment is plastic pollution. Our love of plastic and its indestructible nature has led to its discovery in some of the most unexpected places on earth: at the bottom of the ocean, within Arctic Ice, even inside animals!
It’s an area of increasing importance for the water industry – particularly when considering micro-plastics that can enter water ways – and is leading some to ask questions like “should we begin to regulate for this”.
In this episode Chris speaks with two separate experts to look at both the innovations that we have seen in water treatment and the potential threat that plastic poses to our water supply.
The first half of today’s episode looks at innovation in water treatment with Rob Luckwell, Water Quality Scientist here at Bristol Water. In the second half, Chris talks with Natalie Fee, founder of City to Sea, and discusses the scale of the plastic problem and what we can do to reduce the impact on our water environrments.
We hope you enjoy listening to this episode and look forward to hearing what you think of it.
About today’s guests:
Natalie Fee:
Natalie is an award-winning environmentalist, author, speaker and founder of City to Sea, a UK-based organisation running campaigns to stop plastic pollution at source. In 2018 Natalie was listed as one of the UK’s ‘50 New Radicals’ by The Observer / Nesta and in the same year the University of the West of England awarded her the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science in recognition of her campaign work. She won the Sheila McKechnie Award for Environmental Justice in 2017 for City to Sea's #SwitchtheStick campaign and is proud to have been named Bristol 24/7’s Woman of the Year for 2018.
Her book, How to Save the World for Free is due out October 2019. She can be found on Instagram as nataliefee_ and on Twitter as nataliefee
Rob Luckwell:
After 15 years on the job, Rob is an expert in treatment process operation and optimisation; he has a passion for customer engagement and educating on the value of water. In fact, one of his recent accolades, in 2019 Rob was awarded an outstanding business advocate award by the Lord Mayor of Bristol for services to local communities.
39 min