[extropy-chat] Nanowater Conference to Addresses World's Water Supply

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Thu Sep 2 16:06:11 UTC 2004


NanoWater
Date: Monday, September 27, 2004
Location: RAI Congress Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The aim of the NanoWater conference is to examine how nanotechnology can
help address the issues facing the world's water supplies. According to
Unesco, although 70 percent of the world's surface is covered by water,
only a fraction of that - 2.5 percent - is freshwater, of which 70 per cent
is frozen in ice caps. The remainder is present as soil moisture. This
leaves less than one per cent of the world's freshwater resources 
accessible for human use. 

Nanotechnology, while providing only a few radical new technologies for
desalination, purification or waste water recovery, does have the ability
to tilt the economic balance of many existing water related technologies in
favour of large scale use. NanoWater will provide insight on those
nanotechnologies and how they can be leveraged into the Water 
Industry to make them not only economically feasible but desirable.

Speakers at NanoWater are: Kevin M. McGovern, Chairman and CEO of McGovern 
Capital LLC, Tim Harper, CEO, Cientifica, Executive Director, European
NanoBusiness Association, Uri Sagman, Executive Director, Canadian
NanoBusiness Alliance, Founder & Director, C Sixty Inc., David E. Reisner,
President & CEO, The Nano Group, Inc., President & CEO, Inframat Corp.,
President & CEO, US Nanocorp, Inc., Fred Tepper, President, Argonide, Dr.
Ir. Jeroen Boom, Project Design and Build Manager for 
Membrane Filtration, Veolia Water, Dr. Eric Mayes, CEO, NanoMagnetics Ltd.,
Dr. Philippe Rychen, Head of Environmental Systems, Centre Suisse
d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM SA) and Diederik Jaspers, Senior
Consultant, Altran Technologies Netherlands BV., Dr. Bob Carr, Chief
Technology Officer, NanoSight 

http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/press.asp?contentid=267&catid=85

Natasha

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