Founders Business Seminar: The Business Case for Wastewater

Wednesday 20 August
Afternoon Seminar

Convenors: Stockholm Water Foundation (SWF), Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

The rate of depletion in water resources and the cost for sanitation is a challenge for business. In the case of wastewater treatment, both municipal and industrial, there are several opportunities to develop the revenue of the operations – “The Business Case for Wastewater.”
Wastewater treatment is becoming a high-profile business issue. The challenge presents an  opportunity for companies to improve their competitive position through innovation, improved operational performance, new business models and partnerships with other stakeholders. Around the world wastewater reuse, fertiliser value from wastewater and sludge, biogas production and biogas upgrading, district heating based on heat pumps, effluent from wastewater treatment plants, etc. are being increasingly used and improved.

The Founders Business Seminar 2008, in the International Year of Sanitation, will focus on how to develop the “Business Case for Wastewater” by linking business and other stakeholders. It will be an interactive moderated discussion with the aim to explore issues around how to improve and increase investments, operations and collaboration for improved use of the possibilities available from wastewater treatment.

Seminar Programme         15:00-17:00, Room K21

Moderator: Mr. Adam Eisen, Eisen Enterprises, Sweden