Sustainability Salon: Water Management & Treatment
Thursday, 14 March 2024, 3-5pm
University of Glasgow, Sir Alwyn Williams Building 422 & 423
Water is abundant in Scotland, and our water quality is world leading. We have natural advantages in the composition of our water and an institutional advantage in having a nationalised infrastructure paid for by taxation. Maintaining these advantages will take management and investment, and it is our responsibility to do this while protecting the natural world and the environments that make Scotland one of the most beautiful places on Earth. We are looking for projects to ensure this responsibility is met.
- In the changing landscape forced by climate change, the pressures on our water supply are changing. With more extreme weather, flooding and drought expected, new contaminants will enter the water supply and rapid changes to the environmental waterways will be inevitable. What can we do to manage and mitigate these events?
- If hydrogen is to be part of our energy solution, then its water supply will need to be secured and water quality assured. Can we ensure new infrastructure is developed sustainably and responsibly? Scotland is aiming to have a five-gigawatt capacity of low-carbon or renewable hydrogen production by 2030 so this needs to be addressed.
- Are there ways of decentralising water treatment and waste management to ensure a more robust and egalitarian supply with the least harm done to nature? Can we protect the wild waterways of Scotland and reclaim those already damaged by making changes to the way we treat and move water?
About the Sustainability Salons
The Sustainability Salons bring the practical knowledge of industry together with the technical and theoretical expertise of academics, to inspire potential projects that help solve sustainability issues. We have EPSRC IAA funding available to support these projects. There will be around 50 people at each Sustainability Salon. We’ll provide refreshments and facilitators will loosely guide the discussions.