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    GE Power & Water

    Business Challenges for Water Management, Strategy and Policy


    Competition for scarce water resources

    Jeff Fulgham Chief Sustainability Officer

    GE Energy businesses
    82,000 employees - 140 countries 25% worlds electricity from GE technology

    Power & Water


    Thermal power gen Renewables Gas Engines Nuclear Gasification Water treatment Process chemicals

    Energy Services
    Maintenance agreements Smart Grid Field services Parts and repairs Optimization technologies Plant management

    Oil & Gas


    Drilling/production for land, offshore, subsea LNG and pipelines Refining/petrochemical Industrial power gen Complete lifecycle services
    2/ GE /

    Global water challenges


    Assuring sustainable Improving water Reducing

    quantity

    quality

    energy consumption
    Can we change the outcome?
    3/ GE /
    2010 General Electric Company.

    Global water challenges


    Assuring sustainable Improving water Reducing

    quantity

    quality

    energy consumption
    Can we change the outcome?
    4/ GE /
    2010 General Electric Company.

    Demand >>> Supply


    Global water withdrawals
    Billion m3

    6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 0

    5,800

    4,500
    Available supply

    Gap

    Decrease demand

    2010

    2020

    Increase supply
    5/ GE /

    Global water challenges


    Assuring sustainable Improving water Reducing

    quantity

    quality

    energy consumption
    Can we change the outcome?
    6/ GE /
    2010 General Electric Company.

    Quality

    Se
    N

    TDS As Hg

    TSS P
    7/ GE /

    Global water challenges


    Assuring sustainable Improving water Reducing

    quantity

    quality

    energy consumption
    Can we change the outcome?
    8/ GE /
    2010 General Electric Company.

    Energy
    Power production Oil Sands Unconventional Gas Mining

    Energy production is thirsty!


    99 / GE /

    Alternate energy sources carbon-water tradeoff?

    10 / GE /

    So what can we do?

    11 / GE /

    Water sustainability enablers


    Technology

    Economics

    Policy
    12 / GE /

    Water sustainability enablers


    Technology

    Economics

    Policy
    13 / GE /

    Removing contaminants from water


    Relative particle size
    H2O Na + Sucrose Hemoglobin
    Staphylococcus Bacteria Influenza Virus Pseudomonas Bacteria

    Microfiltration
    Ultrafiltration

    Human Hair (80 mm)

    Reverse Osmosis

    0.1nm

    1nm

    10nm

    100nm

    1mm

    10mm

    100mm

    Membrane technologies

    Conventional Filtration
    14 / GE /

    Water recovery & energy reduction


    70-85% Recovery 98% Recovery Beneficial Use

    Produced Water

    Membrane Based Systems

    Thermal Evaporation, Crystallization, Bio Polishing

    Waste Water Recovery systems

    Wastewater to value

    15 / GE /

    Water sustainability enablers


    Technology

    Economics

    Policy
    16 / GE /

    Does the price of water reflect its true economic value?


    Renewable water resources per capita

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

    Total water + wastewater cost per m3 by country


    17 / GE /

    Water sustainability enablers


    Technology

    Economics

    Policy
    18 / GE /

    Incentives & policy can drive change


    Alberta: 70-90% reuse by 2012 Beijing: 100% reuse by 2015

    Spain: 11% reuse today 40% by 2015 Israel: 85% reuse today 90% by 2016
    Water data source: GWI Renewables data source: REN21

    Saudi Arabia: 11% reuse today 65% by 2016

    Many countries taking action US currently stalled


    19 / GE /

    Sustainable water examples

    Creating new irrigation sources


    Sulaibiya reuse Kuwait City American Canyon California Pennant Hills GC Australia

    21 / GE /

    Optimizing industrial water use


    Repsol YPF Argentina BP Luggage Point Australia Elion Chemical Inner Mongolia, China

    22 / GE /

    Enabling wastewater reuse


    Kyrene Reclamation Tempe, AZ Distributed WW TP Gold Bar & Petro Canada Duckett Creek, Missouri Alberta, Canada

    23 / GE /

    Providing safe drinking water


    Lakeview Water Plant Toronto, Canada Bedok NEWater Singapore Water for Humanity Pakistan

    24 / GE /

    Treating tough water challenges


    Duke Energy North Carolina Shale Gas Pennsylvania Consol Energy Virginia

    25 / GE /

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


    ~Thomas Fuller

    Jeffrey.fulgham@ge.com Twitter: @H2OSustain


    26 / GE /

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