Speakers for Global Water Efficiency Strategies include:
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Saul Arlosoroff
DIRECTOR AND COMMITTEES CHAIRMAN
MEKOROT – THE NATIONAL WATER CORPORATION ISRAEL
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Saul Arlosoroff has more than 40 years of experience in planning, design, execution and management of water resources and water projects, sanitation and related environmental programs. His key experience is in coordinating and managing large scale operations in Israel, Africa and with the World-Bank in more than 40 countries.
Saul has been responsible for multi-disciplinary teams, within Israel - national functions, water and sewerage utility -, in Ghana and the international developments agencies. He has been focusing on engineering, demand management, community water and sanitation, irrigation and water pollution control.
Saul has been a member of ASCE, ASME and IWRA. Since 1956 he is a member of the Association of Engineers in Israel.
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Pascal Berteaud
WATER DIRECTOR
FRENCH MINISTRY OF ECOLOGY & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT |
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Pascal Berteaud has been Water Director at the Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development in France since 2002. Since 2003, he has also been Meteo France Administrator. Pascal was the Civil Service Director for research and mining directorates from 1997-2001 and from 1995-1997 he worked for the Ministry for overseas territories as Head Officer for urban policy and also as Technical Advisor. From 1993-1997, Pascal was Deputy Director of the Water Agency in the Loire-Britanny. Prior to that, he was Head Officer for land and urban planning in La Reunion. Pascal has also acted as a consultant for THOMSON CSF and SIF-BACHY, the Antilles-Guiana agency.
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Trevor Bishop
HEAD OF WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY |
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As Head of Water Resource Management for the Environment Agency Trevor's national responsibilities include Strategic Water Resource Planning, Demand Management, Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Hydrometry.
Trevor has also recently taken up the role within the Agency as Project Executive for River Basin District Plans under the Water Framework Directive.
Prior to his current role Trevor was Head of Regulation and Asset Performance at Mid Kent Water having previously worked for Southern Water Services. Before joining the Water Industry Trevor worked as an environmental consultant and a geologist in the oil industry.
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Chris Coulthurst
SENIOR ENGINEER OFFICE, RECYCLING DEPARTMENT
SOUTH EAST WATER AUSTRALIA |
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Chris joined South East Water in September 2002, a metropolitan water retailer in Melbourne Australia. Initially responsible for agricultural and horticultural recycled water schemes and more recently, with the changing driver for water recycling to achieve potable substitution, has project managed residential recycling schemes.
One of these schemes is the decentralised greywater recycling scheme at the Inkerman Oasis apartment complex. Greywater is collected, treated and recycled on site for toilet flushing and public open space for irrigation.
Another scheme is the Hunt Club Estate residential development, which in October 2006 became the first dual pipe development to be supplied Class A recycled water for toilet flushing, garden watering and public open space irrigation in Victoria.
In addition to project management, Chris managed stakeholder engagement, developed scheme management plans and obtained regulatory approvals.
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Richard Critchley
WATER RESOURCES PLANNING MANAGER
UNITED UTILITIES PLC |
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Richard Critchley has worked in the water industry for 30 years. Over the last 10 years he has worked for United Utilities on forecasting water supply and demand needs for northwest England. He has prepared the company's Water Resources Plans which includes determination of the strategies for leakage reduction, metering and water efficiency as well as for water resources. Richard is a member of CIWEM's Water Resources Expert Panel, the National Water Conservation Group, the Water UK Water Efficiency Network and various national research project steering groups. He managed the "water efficient showers" research project for United Utilities.
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Michael D’Andrea
DIRECTOR OF WATER INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT
CITY OF TORONTO |
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Michael D’Andrea is the Director of Water Infrastructure Management with the City of Toronto.
He has over 20 years of experience in the water and wastewater services industry having worked in consulting and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment before joining the City of Toronto in 1997 as Manager of Utility Planning.
Michael assumed his current role in 2004 and is responsible for asset management, infrastructure planning, capital programming and policy development in support of the City of Toronto’s water, wastewater and stormwater management infrastructure.
He is responsible for the development of Toronto Water’s annual capital budget valued at over $400 million CA.
He has recently led environmental stewardship initiatives such as the development of the City of Toronto’s Water Efficiency Plan and Wet Weather Flow Master Plan.
Michael holds a Master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Western Ontario.
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Dr Julian Dennis
DIRECTOR OF COMPLIANCE & SUSTAINABILITY
WESSEX WATER |
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Julian Dennis joined Wessex Water in 2003 and was appointed Director of Environment, Science & Sustainability in April 2004.
A microbiologist, he studied for his Ph.D. whilst with the Public Health Laboratory Service at CAMR Porton Down. Later, in 1988, joining Thames Water where he was appointed Chief Scientist in 1999.
He has published 58 research and review papers and contributed to several textbooks and was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Microbiology. He has been a convenor and member of BSI technical committees and convenor of ISO committees. He is a Director of UKWIR and is currently Chairman of Sustainability South West and a Trustee of ENVOLVE (a Bath based sustainability charity).
His personal interests include the development and implementation of sustainability accounting and the application of Corporate Social Responsibility principles into business processes.
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Sylvie Detoc
DG ENVIRONMENT
EUROPEAN COMMISSION |
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Policy officer in charge of the EU Water Initiative and water scarcity and drought issues in the Directorate general for Environment of the European Commission in Brussels, Sylvie Detoc is a PhD engineer in water sciences. Before joining the Commission, she was in charge of various issues in French water institutions, from water statistics to water resources management as well as drinking water in one of the 6 French water agencies; she also worked as consultant in Morocco on water resources management projects.
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John Fawell MBE
INDEPENDENT DRINKING WATER CONSULTANT |
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John Fawell has worked in the field of drinking water and environment for 30 years. He has worked at WRc where he was chief scientist of the National Centre for Environmental Toxicology and with Warren Associates where he was Director of Environment before becoming an independent consultant. He is well known in the field of drinking water and drinking water quality through hi work in a number of fields, including the World Health Organisation Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality. He has been closely involved in the regulatory field in the EU and elsewhere with regard to drinking water and environmental protection. He has also been closely involved in developing more strategic approaches to assuring drinking water quality and quantity in combination with the use of poorer quality water sources and the reuse of wastewater. He has a keen interest in sustainability and has organised and chaired sessions on the impacts of climate change on water sustainability at international meetings.
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Meyrick Gough
WATER PLANNING & STRATEGY MANAGER
SOUTHERN WATER, UK |
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Meyrick Gough has worked in the water industry for 15 years in a range of roles. He joined Southern Water in 1992 as a hydrologist and water quality modeller. From there he moved into the water resource planning area and helped to prepare some of the technical information for the water resource plans in 1994 & 1999. He then moved into operations and was the water supply manager for the Company's supply areas in Hampshire and West Sussex serving 1.1 million customers. He has now moved into the Corporate Strategy Planning team as the Water Planning and Strategy Manager, where he is overseeing the roll out of a retro fit scheme aimed at installing 60,000 dual flush devices across the Sussex supply areas.
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Catherine Harvey
CHAIRMAN
CONSUMER COUNCIL FOR WATER EASTERN |
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Appointed Chairman of the Consumer Council for Water's Eastern committee in 2005, Catherine had previously chaired WaterVoice Eastern since April 2001. She is a non-executive director of East Cambridgeshire and Fenland Primary Care Trust, and beforehand was chair of North East Lincolnshire Area Child Protection Committee. She has also worked with West Kent Health Authority and Kent County Council.
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Paul Jeffrey
CENTRE FOR WATER SCIENCE
CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY |
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Paul Jeffrey (BSc, MSc, PhD, FCIWEM) is Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Water Science with over 15 years of research experience on the relationships between the human, natural, and technological dimensions of water management. His research activities cover areas such as water recycling, water policy tools,? water resources management, and technology assessment. Dr. Jeffrey has contributed over 100 journal & conference publications in fields as diverse as water resources management, science & society, technology assessment, and social justice. He has contributed to several pan-European studies on water customer responses to behaviour change as well as providing insights into attitudinal and behavioural aspects of customer focused water policies.
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Lutz Johnen
DIRECTOR
AQUALITY TRADING & CONSULTING LTD. |
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Clean, fresh water is a limited resource. Germany leads the world in its commitment to environmental issues and its companies have spent lavishly on research and development, especially when it comes to water recycling.
Lutz Johnen became interested in rainwater harvesting and greywater recycling at a very early stage of the advance of this important technology. He took the opportunity to work with the leading company GEP Umwelttechnik GmbH, a specialist manufacturer with great expertise in this field. In 1996 he was placed in charge of export of GEP’s newly developed rainwater harvesting systems.
Lutz Johnen seized the challenge of introducing this green technology in new and growing markets such as Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Belgium and the Netherlands. A few years later Denmark and Japan were added. The rapid growth of these markets and the interest in this new technology let to the establishment of subsidiaries in the Netherlands and Austria.
GEP was invited to join a German-Chinese governmental research project for alternative water technologies which included the erection of a combined rainwater harvesting and grey water recycling system for residential apartment blocks in Beijing. Lutz Johnen was responsible for the project management in close cooperation with the German and Chinese Government.
In 1999 he was appointed Managing Director of GEP, by then a multi-million company.
In 2004 Lutz Johnen founded Aquality Trading & Consulting Ltd. in London. He uses his experience and expertise to assist consulting engineers and architects to design systems and also integrate the new water technology in attenuation, soak-aways, fire fighting systems etc.. The aim is to make solutions as water efficient as possible and the investment most cost-effective.
Lutz Johnen, a well respected member of the UKRHA (UK Rainwater Harvesting Association) as well as the Fbr (German rainwater harvesting association) says: ‘The world is changing, so we have to, as well, especially when we have the right technologies at hand and can prevent possible shortages or extreme calamities.’
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Michael Johnson
PRINCIPLE BUILDING SURVEYOR
BUILDINGS DIVISION
OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER |
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Mike is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building and has a Diploma in Town Planning for which he produced a final year thesis on Development and Infrastructure.
Mike started his career in building design working mainly on schools and colleges. He moved into facilities management 25 years ago working first on the prison estate and later with defence research buildings and the government office estate.
He has been worked in Building Regulations for 11 years and has responsibility for water issues. This includes Part G, Hygiene and Part H, Drainage and Solid waste. Due to the interface with water regulation he was the CLG observer on the Water Regulations Advisory Committee. He provides technical support to CLG water policies.
Mike also deals with the building related aspects of flooding and recently coordinated the publication of new guidance on flood resilient construction of new buildings.
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Dr. Hari Krishna
SENIOR ENGINEER AND CONTRACTS MANAGER
INNOVATIVE WATER TECHNOLOGIES PROGRAM
TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD |
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Dr. Hari Krishna is a Senior Engineer and Contracts Manager in the Innovative Water Technologies Program at the Texas Water Development Board in Austin. The Innovative Water Technologies program covers the following three areas: Rainwater Harvesting, Desalination, and Water Reuse. His passion, however, is Rainwater Harvesting. He founded the American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association (ARCSA) in 1994 and served as its President for 11 years. Dr. Krishna has been associated with the International Rainwater Catchment Systems Association (IRCSA) for over 20 years, and has been serving as its Executive Vice President since 2003.
Dr. Krishna served previously as the Director of the Water Resources Research Institute at the University of the Virgin Islands from 1998-1993. Hari has been working with rainwater catchment systems for most of his career, and especially during the last 20 years in Texas and in the Caribbean. He received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from Utah State University in 1979 and served as a faculty member in Utah, and as a Consultant to the United Nations in the 1980s.
Dr. Krishna is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.), and a certified Professional Hydrologist (P.H.). He has presented and/or published about 100 papers nationally and internationally, and was honored with a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Engineering at Utah State University. He is listed in “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering”, and in “Who’s Who in America”.
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Nigel McGowan
MANAGING DIRECTOR
SAVE-A-FLUSH LTD |
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Nigel McGowan is Managing Director of Save-a-flush Limited, a company specialising in the design, manufacture and sourcing of water efficient products, the flagship product being the Save-a-flush, a cistern-based water saving device. Nigel is a Chartered Accountant and has worked in a variety of sectors before becoming involved in the water industry in 2006. He became MD at Save-a-flush in 2007. Save-a-flush has been assisting the UK water industry with water efficiency for almost 10 years during which time millions of Save-a-flush sachets have been distributed. Save-a-flush is currently supplied to the majority of UK water companies including Thames Water, United Utilities and Severn Trent. The company is currently working with different businesses to develop theSave-a-flush product range in response to customer demand.
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Grant Pearson
SENIOR WATER QUALITY ADVISOR: EDUCATION
RAND WATER |
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Grant was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and always had a passion for nature. He studied a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. He completed his 1-year military service in the Environmental Services Division, and joined EcoLink, an environmental education and integrated development NGO in Mpumalanga, for 2 years. Grant is presently an environmental educator at Rand Water, the largest water utility in South Africa. He is the Senior Water Quality Advisor – Education, and heads up the Water Wise Education Team. The goal of this team is to change the attitude of learners and educators towards water and the natural environment through becoming “Water Wise”. This is achieved through the method of "edutainment" (education through entertainment). Workshops, tours and education material are offered for nursery schools, schools, & tertiary institutions, in which hands on methods are used to impart the “Water Wise” message. Although Grant studied in a scientific field, he is not a true scientist. He enjoys taking a scientific topic and portraying it to the public in an artistic manner. A combination of a love for nature, children, science and art are the reasons why Grant loves working within the field of environmental education.
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Michael Pocock
HEAD OF STRATEGIC PLANNING
THREE VALLEYS WATER |
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Mike Pocock is a chartered civil engineer with thirty years experience in the water industry with both Thames Water, Three Valleys Water and Veolia Water. His variety of design, construction, operational and planning roles have spanned all aspects of water engineering and management.
As Head of Strategic Planning, Mike is currently a senior manager with Veolia Water and is responsible for strategic planning for the Veolia Water operating companies embracing all aspects of, water resource planning including risk management and the supply/demand balance that involves liaison with both economic and environmental Regulators and environmental pressure groups. He also has extensive experience of water efficiency, regional planning, and drought management. Mike has led the UKWIR water resources research portfolio since 2000 directing a range of key projects. Mike has also regularly represented Water UK on water resources matters including appearing before Parliamentary committees. Mike is a member of the CIWEM Water Resources Panel.
Previous roles have included director of both Rickmansworth Water Ltd and Three Valleys Water Committee and Operations Manager for the Rickmansworth and Harlow Divisions
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Clare Ridgewell
DEMAND PLANNING MANAGER
ESSEX & SUFFOLK WATER |
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Clare graduated from the University of Southampton with a BSc in Geography and then went to Imperial College, London to complete a MSc in Engineering Hydrology. Her first job was as a research assistant at the University of Bristol with the Institute of Hydrology, on a project concerning distributed hydrological modelling. Whilst at Bristol Clare completed her PhD. Clare is a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Environmentalist.
Clare spent 5 years in the planning department at Lee Valley Water Company/Three Valleys Water Company working on all aspects of water resource planning and other operational planning projects. Whilst there she was involved in the National Metering Trials and the National Leakage Initiative.
In 1991 she moved to Essex Water Company as a Project Engineer within the planning department. She is now Demand Planning Manager in Northumbrian Water's Southern Operating Area, Essex & Suffolk Water. Although Clare's roles and departments have changed numerous times whilst with the company she has maintained responsibility for demand forecasting throughout and been involved with all aspects of demand management. Since 1996 Clare has been responsible for the company's water efficiency strategy and its' implementation. She currently chairs the WaterUK Water Efficiency Group.
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Suzan Taha
NATIONAL WATER MASTER PLAN DIRECTOR
MINISTRY OF WATER & IRRIGATION, JORDAN |
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Ms. Taha obtained her BSc in civil engineering from the University of Jordan. In 1988 she got her first master degree in Engineering administration from George Washington University (USA), and later in 1993 she obtained her second MSc in irrigation engineering from Southampton University in the UK.
Ms. TAHA has more than 25 years in responsible technical and managerial positions in the water sector in Jordan. She is a seasoned expert in water policy, sector planning, integrated water resources management, and water and wastewater management. Ms. Taha is presently heading the National Water Master Plan directorate at the Jordanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation. Since she joined the Ministry in 1995 she has contributed to the development and deployment of GIS-based digital planning tools for the regular updating of the national water master plan in Jordan. The tools are being presently used for the provision of planning framework for the government policies, strategies and actions.
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Lesley Tait
WATER RESOURCES SUSTAINABILITY MANAGER
THAMES WATER |
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Lesley gained a BSc in Chemistry and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton followed by a Masters in Environmental Management from Imperial College, London. Lesley has worked in the environmental field for over 10 years and currently works for Thames Water. Lesley’s current role is Water Resources Sustainability Manager and as such she is responsible for the development and delivery of the company’s water efficiency strategy and involved in long term water resource planning.
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Alan Turner
PRINCIPAL REGENERATION AND PROJECTS OFFICERS
KENT COUNTY COUNCIL |
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Alan joined Kent County Council in 1999 after 7 years working as a water management consultant in the Middle East and South Asia for Dutch consultants Arcadis Euroconsult. He now leads on water issues for the County Council and chairs the Kent Water Demand Management Group. His main focus is on the areas of high housing growth within Kent where he has led the development of partnership projects on water efficiency in new homes, seasonal tariffs and retrofit measures.
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Emmanuel Van Houtte
GEOLOGIST
INTERMUNICIPAL WATER COMPANY OF THE VEURNE REGION |
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Emmanuel graduated as a geologist at the University of Ghent (Flanders, Belgium). He started working for the Intermunicipal Water Company of the Veurne Region back in 1992 where he was asked to develop a plan for sustainable management of the dune areas. This resulted in a water reuse project related to groundwater recharge. This reuse scheme is operational since 5 years.
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Simon Walster
SENIOR ANALYST
SUPPLY DEMAND BALANCE TEAM
OFWAT
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Simon graduated from the University of Birmingham with a BSc in Biological Sciences and returned to Birmingham to complete a MSc in Water Resources Management and Technology.
He joined Ofwat in March 1996, spending his first nine and a half years in the Quality Enhancements Team. Since September 2005 he has been the Senior Analyst responsible for demand management in the Supply Demand Balance Team.
Simon is responsible for the development of Ofwat’s policy regarding water efficiency and put together Ofwat’s ‘Water efficiency initiatives – good practice register’.
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Rob Westcott
WATER RESOURCES POLICY MANAGER (DEMAND MANAGEMENT)
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY |
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Currently managing the Water Demand Management team. Rob has 17 years experience of water resources management, regulation and strategic planning. He has worked as an Abstraction Licensing Officer, a Water Resources Planner and was the Principal Water Analyst in the Agency's National Water Demand Management Centre before taking up his current role in Worthing. His work covers the policy areas of water efficiency, metering and leakage and advises on technical aspects of water resources planning.
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Steff Wright
CEO & CHAIRMAN
GUSTO GROUP |
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Steff Wright is Chief Executive (and principal shareholder) of Gusto Group Ltd, Gusto Construction Ltd, Gusto Products Ltd, Gusto Finance Ltd and Party Time Ltd and Chairman of Lincoln City Football Club Ltd. He is principal shareholder in Gusto Group Ltd, comprising Gusto Construction Ltd (house-builders), Freerain Ltd (rainwater harvesting) and Gusto Finance Ltd (housing development joint ventures).
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| Announcing the Global Water Efficiency Summit . . More |
Tim F. Brick
Chairman of Board
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Emmanuel Van Houtte
Geologist
Intermunicipal Water Company of the Veurne Region, Belgium
Suzan Taha
National Water Master Plan Director
Ministry of Water & Irrigation, Jordan
Saul Arlosoff
Director & Chairman, Finance/Economic Committee
Mekorot - The National Water Corporation of Israel
Chris Coulthurst
Senior Engineer Office
Recycling Department, South East Water Australia
Pascal Berteaud
Water Director
French Ministry of Ecology & Sustainable Development
Michael D’Andrea
Director Water Infrastructure Management
Toronto Water, City of Toronto, Canada
Dr Hari Krishna
Senior Engineer & Contracts Manager
Texas Water Development Board and Executive Vice President, IRCSA, USA
Grant Pearson
Senior Water Quality Advisor / Education
Rand Water, South Africa
Trevor Bishop
Head of Water Resources Management
Environment Agency, UK
Peter Jiggins
Head of Branch – Drinking Water
Defra, UK
Sylvie Detoc
DG Environment
European Commission, Belgium
Rob Westcott
Water Resources Policy Manager
UK Environment Agency
Simon Walster
Demand Management Senior Analyst
Ofwat, UK
Dr Julian Dennis
Director of Compliance & Sustainability
Wessex Water
Richard Critchley
Water Resources Planning Manager
United Utilities plc, UK
Mike Pocock
Head of Strategic Planning
Veolia Water
Meyrick Gough
Water Planning & Strategy Manager
Southern Water, UK
Lesley Tait
Senior Environmental Advisor
Thames Water, UK
Clare Ridgewell
Demand Planning Manager
Essex & Suffolk Water, UK
Jacob Tompkins
Director
Waterwise, UK
Alan Turner
Principal Regeneration & Projects Officer & Chairman of Kent Water Demand Management Group
Kent County Council, UK
Catherine Harvey
Chairman
Consumer Council for Water Eastern, UK
Steff Wright
Chairman & CEO
Gusto Homes, UK
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