Scottish Water Delivering for a Hydro Nation Elise Cartmell Chief Scientist
Scottish Water Delivering for a Hydro Nation
Elise CartmellChief Scientist
1.38 billionlitres of drinking water every day
929 millionlitres of wastewater every day
2.52 millionhouseholds served
153,000business premises served
30,246miles of water pipes
32,940miles of sewer pipes
242water treatment works
1,826wastewater treatment works
UN Sustainable Development Goals - supported by Scottish Water
Strategic R&I focus SR15
• Sustainable rural communities• Value recovery from waste• Reducing leakage economically• Exemplary compliance
Sustainable rural communities
Key focus area for Scotland
• 3% of population on private water supplies• 18% of properties on private waste systems• 90% of our assets serve 10% of the population• Affordability and sustainability challenges
Innovation Challenge
Effective and reliable point-of-use water treatment for organic rich surface waters
What’s next?
Innovative designs
Co-creation to develop innovative designs delivering Natural and Social Capital benefits to support a flourishing Scotland
Striving for low carbon water services
Heat from sewers Energy from food waste
Hosted wind and solar energy
Proposed approach to enhancementSustainable Growth Agreement 2018
Sustainable Catchment Decisions
Blue-GreenCities
Value fromWaste water
IMAP• Research or innovation journey, from
discovery to deployment
• Making the process systematic, reproducible, scalable, manageable
• Enables decisions to be made about particular projects in equitable way
• Allows priorities to be set and projects compared
Systemising innovation capability
Increased service
availability and resilience
Increased customer
satisfaction and service
Reduced environmental
impact
Increased Compliance
Reduced CostsIncreased water quality
The Benefits new technologies must realise
Needs and benefits are key
Business unit level evaluation
Strategic Research and Innovation Focus
Strategic Research and Innovation Support
Where’s our focus?
Our vision is to be trusted to care for the water on which Scotland depends
Our ambitions:Delivering a consistently leading customer experience
Keeping customer prices low Increasing the reliability, resilience and sustainability of our services
Supporting a flourishing Scotland
Strategic Research and Innovation Themes – SR21
Safe affordable treatment
Localised bioresource recovery
Energy self-sufficient
Anaerobic systems
Protecting the environment
Treatment process intensification
Intelligent network management Reduced risk of service failure
Proactive asset maintenance High quality drinking water
Sustainable Rural Communities
Wastewater treatment works of
the future
Wastewater service
Asset management Water service
Going forward – for 2040? • How might we achieve no unwanted
discharges from our sewer networks?Delivering a consistently
leading customer experience
• How might we turn our waste water treatment works into profit centres? Keeping customer prices
low
• How might we achieve zero disruptions to customers?
Increasing the reliability, resilience and
sustainability of our services
• How might we ensure that the total population of Scotland has access to safe and affordable drinking water and sustainable sanitation?
Supporting a flourishing Scotland
Trusted
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on which