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A new website dedicated to collaboration and knowledge-sharing in the water sector has been launched by technology consultancy Isle.
The Water Action Platform, which is sponsored by leading water industry partners, pools experience and expertise from utilities around the world. It started as a response to Covid19 but is now encompassing a much wider range of topics.
While conventional business practices encourage neutrality and keeping politics/personal beliefs at a minimum, the continued acts of injustice towards Black people require a clear position on this significant issue.
Ben Tam, Isle’s Managing Director UK, contributes to a LineSearchBeforeUDig report on ‘How the Water Industry Can Combat the Challenges of PR19’.
A new partnership between technology and business consultancy Isle, the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) and change-making consultancy ThinkPlace will deliver an industry-leading innovative technologies programme. Some 23 WSAA members have already signed up for the W-Lab programme which launched in March 2020.
Water companies, with their huge asset bases and wide-ranging data, can benefit greatly from advances in artificial intelligence – but what steps should they be taking to reap the rewards? Three leading innovation experts lend their insight to Benjamin Tam, managing director of global technology and innovation consultancy Isle UK.
While a global concern, the response to PFAS across geographies differ. There are many efforts in parallel around research, policy, and piloting of solutions; therefore, Isle is taking a leading role to synthesize qualified research and facilitate an independent review of emerging and market-ready solutions. Supported by the industry’s leading water utilities, this unique effort will establish a collaborative forum for exchange of best practice and experience between peers.
A WhatsApp group intended for a handful of utilities to share learnings and experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic has quickly scaled to involve over 180 organisations. Isle founder and chairman Piers Clark started the social media chat group just over two weeks ago as the lockdown of populations meant utilities had to respond rapidly to multiple unprecedented challenges.
Isle would like to assure you that we remain fully operational throughout our worldwide offices. Members of the Isle team are able to be contacted as usual via email or phone.
European Water and Wastewater TAG 18 were originally set to take place in Paris on 18th and 19th March. However, after restrictions put in place due to the outbreak of Covid-19, the meeting was run entirely virtually.
On 29th January 2020, the Working Group ‘Water Security’ organised a workshop on Quantitative Assessment of Water Security. The workshop was hosted by KWR Water Research Institute in the Netherlands. The co-leaders of the Working Group, Jan Hofman (University of Bath and KWR) and Blanca Antizar (Isle Utilities) chaired the day. Over 20 participants from different destinations in Europe came to Nieuwegein to join the workshop.
Through its REEF charitable ‘foundation’, Isle Utilities supports entrepreneurs working in water and sanitation in developing and emerging countries. Just before Christmas 2019, Natasha Giroux, a graduate in our London office, joined an international team from Isle for a trip to a toilet-building enterprise in Cambodia – and took part in the Angkor Wat Half Marathon. Here is her account.
Global technology and innovation consultancy Isle Utilities is growing its team and has appointed Matthew Stephenson as European director. Stephenson joined on 1 October and brings over 20 years’ experience in the water sector, most recently as director of Suez Advanced Solutions UK and previously at Bristol Water, a utility in south-west England.
