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Pictured: speakers at the 2019 conference and trade show of the British Water Cooler Association (BWCA): (l-r) Brendan Hanlon from the BWCA’s chosen charity, Just a Drop; Rebecca Ireland, an employment lawyer and partner with gunnercooke LLP; Richard Hall of Zenith Global; keynote speaker, The Rt. Hon. The Lord Deben, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change and former Secretary of State for the Environment; Jon Wicks, chairman of the BWCA; and Phillipa Atkinson-Clow, general manager of BWCA.
BWCA Conference 2019 delivered Insight to Change
A record number of delegates and visitors attended the British Water Cooler Association’s annual conference and trade show, themed ‘Insight to Change – learn, unlearn, & relearn’. Held on March 28, at the Nottingham Belfry, the event was a sell-
out event with 130 conference delegates and 38 exhibitor stands. The keynote speaker at the conference was The Rt. Hon. the Lord
Deben (John Selwyn Gummer), former Secretary of State for the Environment and chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, a role he has held since 2012. Lord Deben told delegates: “We’ve always underestimated and
underrated water. Water is a sacred symbol of every world religion – everyone takes it seriously. What your industry does is close to the hearts of people. They have deeper feelings about water than sometimes they’d admit. But we are running out of water. We are experiencing not climate change but climate disruption.” Lord Deben added that the water cooler industry needed to shout
louder about the environmental benefits of water coolers. “You provide water in a way that is particularly valuable in today’s
world. We are going to have to change the way we carry goods in terms of our packaging. You have a plastic bottle but it is reused again and again and again. Plastic can be valuable if it is reused and reused. The watercooler is essential for providing water sustainably.” With reference to penalties being imposed by the government to
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