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Business Challenges for WaterManagement, Strategy and PolicyCompetition for scarce water resources

GE Power & Water

Jeff FulghamChief Sustainability Officer



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• Drilling/production for …land, offshore, subsea

• LNG and pipelines• Refining/petrochemical

• Industrial power gen

• Complete lifecycleservices

Oil & Gas

GE Energy businesses

Energy Services

• Thermal power gen

• Renewables

• Gas Engines• Nuclear

• Gasification

• Water treatment

• Process chemicals

Power & Water• Maintenance agreements

• Smart Grid

• Field services• Parts and repairs

• Optimizationtechnologies

• Plant management

82,000 employees - 140 countries 25% world’s electricity from GE technology



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Assuring sustainable quantity

Improving water quality

Reducing energy consumption

Global water challenges

Can we change the outcome?

© 2010 General Electric Company.



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1,000

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3,000

4,000

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6,000

2010

4,500

Availablesupply

Billion m3

Global water withdrawals

2020

5,800

Gap

Demand >>> Supply

Decreasedemand

Increasesupply



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Quality

TDS TSS

Hg

Se

As PN



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Energy

UnconventionalGasil Sands Miningower production

Energy production is thirsty!



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Alternate energy sources … carbon-water tradeoff?



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So what can we do?



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Water sustainability enablers

Technology

Economics

Policy



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Technology

Economics

Policy



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Human Hair

(80 mm)

Removing contaminants from waterRelative particle size

1mm 10mm

H2O Na + Sucrose Hemoglobin Influenza Virus Pseudomonas

Bacteria

StaphylococcusBacteria

100nm 10nm1nm0.1nm 10mm 100mm

ConventionalFiltration

Microfiltration

Ultrafiltration

Reverse

Osmosis

1mm 10mm100nm 10nm1nm0.1nm

Membrane technologies



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Water recovery & energy reduction

Produced Water

70-85% Recovery 98% Recovery Beneficial Use

Membrane BasedSystems

Thermal Evaporation,Crystallization,

Bio Polishing

Waste WaterRecovery systems

Wastewater to value



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Technology

Economics

Policy



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Does the price of water reflect its trueeconomic value?

R e n e w

a b l e w a t e r r e s o u r c e s p e r c a p i t a

Total water + wastewater cost per m3 by country

High scarcity, low cost … where is the motivation to conserve?



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Technology

Economics

Policy



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Incentives & policy can drive change

Alberta: 70-90%reuse by 2012

Beijing: 100%reuse by 2015

Israel: 85% reuse today90% by 2016

Saudi Arabia:11% reuse today … 65% by 2016

Many countries taking action … US currently stalled

Spain: 11% reuse today …40% by 2015

Water data source: GWIRenewables data source: REN21



Sustainable water

examples



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Creating new irrigation sources

Sulaibiya reuseKuwait City American CanyonCalifornia Pennant Hills GCAustralia



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Optimizing industrial water use

Repsol YPFArgentina BP Luggage PointAustralia Elion ChemicalInner Mongolia, China



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Enabling wastewater reuse

Kyrene ReclamationTempe, AZ Gold Bar & Petro CanadaAlberta, Canada

Distributed WW TPDuckett Creek, Missouri



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Providing safe drinking water

Lakeview Water Plant Toronto, Canada

Bedok NEWaterSingapore

Water for HumanityPakistan



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Treating tough water challenges

uke Energy North Carolina

Shale GasPennsylvania

Consol EnergyVirginia



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We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

~Thomas Fuller

[email protected]

Twitter: @H2OSustain

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