Year: 2022

SINGAPORE'S INNOVATIVE WATER HUB." A key partner in the Water Hub, Siemens established its global headquarters for water technology R&D here in 2007 ... "Singapore will be the center and expansion springboard for all our innovation-related activities." http://lnkd.in/dFEjdbK View in LinkedIn

RECYCLING AND DESALINATION IN SINGAPORE. This city is becoming a model for the world in effective water management. The city has taken a leadership role in approaching water issues. http://lnkd.in/dFEjdbK View in LinkedIn

INNOVATIONS IN WATER TREATMENT. Despite some negative forces operating in water treatment innovation, such as resistance to change from chlorine, there are some exciting new developments arising, driven in part by the public's clear concerns about drinking water quality. Except for innovative cities like Amsterdam and Singapore, change may come first at the individual consumer level. View in LinkedIn

ALTERNATIVE WATER PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES are needed, and exist. There is a lot of gratuitous disinformation in the literature about their relative merits. It is quite clear that 100 years after the first public water chlorination, we need to revisit what technology alternatives we have to fulfill this important public health mandate. View in LinkedIn

BACTERIOPHAGES ARE EVERYWHERE. We live in the midst of bacteriophages "With just about every bite of food, every sip of water, we ingest countless numbers of phages. They are found everywhere, especially where bacteria are common, like in wastewaters for example. They keep the bacterial populations in check." http://lnkd.in/dkSZeD7 View in LinkedIn

THE GANGES RIVER has had legendary curative powers despite abundant rotting carcasses, sewage, and filth. This was attributed to bacteriophages (phages) in the 1890s by Ernest Hankin and Félix d'Hérelle, where the phages in the river could be protected against cholera and dysentery. http://lnkd.in/dna94zQ 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

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

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

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