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DO NEW WATER TECHNOLOGIES STAND A CHANCE? It is vital for water purification startups to partner with a big provider, and the cost-driven markets for water are tough to crack. The relatively small number of providers and a general resistance to any change presents significant challenges to water innovators. Unless at POU/POE. http://lnkd.in/dNmfEuV View in LinkedIn

INNOVATION NEEDED. "Global water demand is projected to increase by 55% between 2000 and 2050, by which time more than 40% of the global population may be under severe water stress. With about 70% of the world's fresh water supply being used for agricultural irrigation ... there is huge scope - and need - for technological innovation." http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/futurium/en/content/future-water View in LinkedIn

PHAGEBIOTICS. There is an upsurge of interest in creative circles about the use of phages in place of antibiotics. Given the alarm in public health circles about antibiotic resistant superbugs, this is a timely development. No magic bullet but a natural evolving antibiotic system that has evolved over the millennia. http://lnkd.in/dda_MqZ View in LinkedIn

NEW POSSIBILITIES. "However, the past 20 years have seen a dramatic change in the water industry's approach to water treatment in which water utilities have started to seriously consider alternative treatment technologies to the traditional filtration/chlorination treatment approach." http://lnkd.in/dmxbCAh View in LinkedIn

PHAGE BEAUTY PARADE. "Sewage contains up to 1,000 times more viruses than other water bodies. Civil and environmental engineers screen sewage to find phages that can improve drinking and wastewater treatment. Briefly, they ... are grown on agar plates seeded with the bacterium the engineers want to kill." http://lnkd.in/de4_ujq View in LinkedIn

TECHNOLOGY STASIS. "For the first 75 years of this century, chemical clarification, granular media filtration, and chlorination were virtually the only treatment processes used in municipal water treatment." Time to wake up and catch up with the considerable amount of innovation in almost every other field. http://lnkd.in/dmxbCAh View in LinkedIn

BIOFILTRATION OF WATER USING BACTERIA is a new approach and one which dovetails well with other biological remedies to modern problems, such as phage therapy across a wide spectrum of diseases. The biggest obstacle is a perception issue. View in LinkedIn

CHLORINE IS A SELECTIVE PRESSURE to aquatic pathogens, just as antibiotics is a selective pressure to other pathogens. Fast-mutating and highly adaptable creatures like microorganisms make a living finding metabolic work-arounds by genetic variation. Like static molecule antibiotics, chlorine will follow that same fateful path of driving resistant pathogen development. View in LinkedIn

PHAGE WATER PURIFICATION. "Bacteriophages are viruses that infect and lyse bacteria. Interest in the ability of phages to control bacterial populations has extended from medical applications into the fields of agriculture, aquaculture and the food industry," and water treatment." http://lnkd.in/d5kGy56http://lnkd.in/d-ypFD6 View in LinkedIn

WHOLE HOUSE ACTIVATED CARBON UNITS. "SBAC (larger) units begin at about US$330, but generally cost about US$2500. Replacement filters are needed about once a year. SBAC replacement filters cost about US$0.07 per gallon of water treated." This or cancer? http://lnkd.in/dna7M4i View in LinkedIn