Dr Jill Robbie travelled to the Faroe Islands between 1-4 May to meet with water policy makers and other stakeholders. Her visit included meeting with Torbjørn Bæk, one of the water managers for the Tórshavnar Municipality, and a tour around the drinking water system. Jill is a member of the International Scientific Committee for the …
Prof William Sloan is a panel member at the webinar ‘Water and Sustainable Development: Scotland’s Water Future‘. The webinar will focus on Scotland’s water future. Scotland may be a small nation, but in terms of water management, it has always punched well above its weight. The webinar will explore how Scottish Water plans to be …
Dr Siming You has been invited to give a talk at Cornell University’s Ezra’s Round Table / Systems Seminar, on 31st March 2023. He will talk about research on environmental system life cycle assessment and application of machine learning methods. Title: Environmental Footprints of Bioenergy Production/Waste Management and Application of Machine Learning Methods Date: 31st …
Prof Blanca Antizar, a member of our International Advisory Board, (European Director of Isle Utilities and Visiting Professor University College London, United Kingdom) participated in the panel “Sustainable and inclusive infrastructure and regional integration” as part of the IADB Group’s Annual Assembly that took place in Panama, 16th March 2023. Her contribution was about the …
Dr Jill Robbie and Dr Elizabeth Lawson held an online workshop on 23rd February 2023 ,with members of Scottish local authorities, to discuss challenges and opportunities of existing decentralised water and wastewater systems. There was a total of 50 attendees, from 18 different organisations with a high level of engagement throughout the two-hour session. Themes …
The fourth plenary meeting of the EPSRC Programme Grant on Off-grid Water Technologies was held on the 21st February 2023. The event was held as a hybrid meeting, with some attending in-person at the Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow and others joining online via Zoom. The agenda included a welcome from our Principal …