–Dr Bengt Mattson at Lif, the Swedish Pharmaceutical Industry Association, about the ways we can balance the need for access to medicines with the need for a clean, protected environment

– Dr Roberta Hofman-Caris from KWR Watercycle Research Institute about how to work out whether water needs to be treated to remove pharmaceuticals and – if it does – how to select the right treatment method. Links to some of her work are below (all open access).

• Prioritization of micropollutants based on removal effort in drinking water purification treatment.
• Origin, fate and control of pharmaceuticals in the urban water cycle: A case study.
• Getting in control of persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT) and very persistent and very mobile (vPvM) substances to protect water resources: strategies from diverse perspectives.

– i-Phyc and Oxyle both presented their technologies for the removal of micropollutants from water using very different mechanisms. Both Simon Gretton-Watson of i-Phyc and Fajer Mushtaq at Oxyle would be glad to hear from you