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people access toilets by 2020 by linking its Domestos brand to improvements in sanitation. She told delegates that embedding sustainability in brands was crucial to business.
“Water-related issues can be seen as both a threat and an opportunity” Dr Mendez said, explaining that for a company like Unilever reducing water use in factories and agriculture went alongside encouraging behaviour change among consumers and developing more water-efficient products. Dr Mendez called on the water industry to “get a better understanding of people’s behaviour and motivation” regarding water and hygiene.
Demand on resources
“This has become an annual event for British Water and is growing every year. It is an excellent opportunity for representatives of the UK water industry to network with decision-makers from around the world.
British Water members
welcomed the opportunity to network at the
International Reception at the House of Commons.
“Events such as this are a key part of building partnerships and promoting UK expertise. In future British Water plans to make this a two-day event, built around the reception, in order to arrange site visits and B2B meetings for international delegations.”
Government support
The UK Government lent strong support to the event, with representatives in attendance from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs; the Environment Agency; UK Export Finance and the Department for International Trade.
Angela Smith MP, Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Water Group, told delegates, “British Water has a critical role to play in bringing people together to create a robust supply chain through encouraging innovative new technologies.”
Keynote speaker Dr Analia Mendez, Global Director Social Mission Expertise HomeCare, at Unilever, spoke about the role of the private sector in delivering societal and behavioural change. Unilever has committed to helping 25 million
Martin Shouler, Associate Director of Arup, provided an industry response, warning that the speed of global change through urbanisation and climate change is putting an increasing demand on resources, especially water.
“Climate change is typically thought of as a carbon issue,” he said, “but 80 per cent of impact will be felt through water – in sea-level rises, extreme weather events, drought and flooding.”
British Water members welcomed the opportunity to network. Justin Dunning, Sales Manager, Chelsea Technologies Group said, “Many thanks for last night’s event, which I thoroughly enjoyed. The speakers were fantastic and the food and wine exemplary. It was a really useful evening in which I genuinely extended my contacts in the industry amongst both BW members and guests.”
Sponsorship
The British Water 2016 International Reception was sponsored by Aquam, Balmoral Tanks, Byrne Looby, EMCA, Enterprise Ireland, Global Water Intelligence, International Water Summit Abu Dhabi, M-Power Enterprises, Polypipe, UK Export Finance and Wasser Berlin International.
ACO welcomes UK BIM Alliance and challenges industry to ‘think beyond
the walls’ ACO Water Management has pledged its support to the UK BIM Alliance, but has challenged the construction industry to ‘think beyond the walls’.
The UK BIM Alliance will be officially launched in October this year at the ICE BIM Conference and at Digital Construction week, both of which will be attended by ACO, and will provide a common and
clear point of reference for companies working in the built environment, with the overall aim of helping companies of all sizes begin their BIM journeys.
The purpose of the Alliance is to lead the industry-wide drive for awareness, education and adoption of BIM Level 2 and to promote its benefits to the construction sector. However, ACO has concerns that the construction industry’s BIM thinking stops with the building fabric.
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