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Pioneering Companies win prestigious Lighthouse Award
innovative entrepreneurs developing break though advancements for water stewardship and sustainability.
Accepting the award,Molun Zhang, R&D seniormanager - experimentation and external technology acquisition at the Coca- Cola Company said, “The programme is a joint venture acrossmany industries andmany thought-leaders; it is a real achievement to win this award.We would not be here without the startups and innovators themselves and we always invite others to join them.”
Ecopetrol
Columbia-based energy company Ecopetrol won a Lighthouse Award for the development of a pilot agri-energy wastewater reuse project. Treating wastewater fromoil & gas production to a high quality and returning it to the environment for use in livestock watering and forestry is helping to improve water security, stabilise seasonal variability for users, and is reducing Ecopetrol’s water footprint to achieve water neutrality by 2045.
Collaborationwas the key to success for the sevenwinners of the 2023 Lighthouse Awards,whichwere presented during BlueTech Forumin Edinburgh, Scotland. Pioneers and visionarieswithin the water sectorwere recognised at a ceremony held at the National Museumof Scotland on 17thMay.
Projects for the oil & gas, food & beverage, pharmaceutical and water utility sectors were all successful. Technologies included water reuse, water recovery through zero liquid discharge and digital stormwater management. A documentary charting water scarcity and a collaborative accelerator programme for technology startups were also award winners.
The Brave BlueWorld Foundation launched the Lighthouse Awards in 2020 to recognise corporations and utilities that are reducing impact in water stressed regions, including those implementing circular practices, and establishing ambitious targets with tangible timelines.
Paul O’Callaghan, chief executive of BlueTech Research, which hosted the Forum, and a representative of the Brave BlueWorld Foundation said, “Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s Lighthouse Awards. They all reflect the level and new wave of innovation happening now in digital and technological transformation.
“The quality of the innovations and storytelling showcased was very high and one of the things we aremost proud of is how clear and strong their value propositions are.We know they will all go on to change the landscape of watermanagement as they also fit closely with the theme of this year’s BlueTech Forum– innovation with impact.”
Lighthouse Awardwinners AB InBev 100+ Accelerator
This innovation programme to fuel the growth of startups was established by AB InBev, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, and Unilever in 2018, with the goal of connecting global corporations with
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Giovanni Annicchiar, head of production at Ecopetrol said, “Now we have new challenges to be evenmore sustainable, not only in the oil industry but as a society. That is why we need to face these challenges with different points of view, different processes, and with an integrated view.”
Grundfos Foundation
The Grundfos Foundation developed a filmshort charting the true story of the water scarcity struggles in Karachi, Pakistan. Into Dust, a collaboration between Academy Award winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel and the Karachi-based NGO Orangi Pilot Project, tells the story of Perween Rahman a courageous woman who sacrificed everything to provide Karachi's poorest communities with clean, safe water.
Aquatech
Technology company Aquatech won for its extraordinary collaboration with pharmaceutical company ACG to recovermore than 95%of the water at its plant in India, using Aquatech’s zero liquid discharge technology.
Pepsico
Food and beverage corporation Pepsico won with a technology that recovers up to 60%of the water used in its potato chip manufacturing line. By capturing, condensing, treating, and reusing steam, the company is saving 60million litres of water yearly.
Aarhus Vand
Dutch water utility Aarhus Vand won with its plans to convert an existing wastewater treatment plant into a water resource recovery facility, recovering biofuels, bio-charcoal, and soil conditioner from wastewater.
Walmart and Opti
A collaboration between supermarket chainWalmart and stormwatermanagement company Opti secured the final Lighthouse Award for its project using real-timemonitoring and digital control systems to reduce pollutants discharged from stormwater retention ponds, across three sites in the US.
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