Water & Wastewater Asia September/October 2021

5 MINS WITH WATER & WASTEWATER ASIA | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2021
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phase of our products and solutions.
This confirms that the best way we
can help with climate change is to
forge ahead with increasing the
energy efficiency of our products
and solutions, and developing digital
solutions. We invested 4.5% of our
turnover in 2020 in new products,
and constantly explored the benefits
of new technology to enhance our
products’ performance and raise
efficiency levels.
With less than a decade left on
the Agenda 2030 Sustainable
Development Goals, how is
Grundfos, as a global pump
manufacturer, accelerating its
efforts to ensure the goals are met?
Campos: The water industry as a
whole has made significant progress,
but there is still a lot of work to be
done urgently over the next decade.
Former United Nations (UN) Secretary-
General Ban Ki-moon notes that
the next 10 years will be crucially
important for global leaders to work
on the UN Sustainable Development
Goals, and this has been the driving
force behind the UN’s decision to
launch the Decade on Ecosystem
Restoration to counter ‘triple
environmental emergency’.
It [Water] is a scarce and rapidly depleting
resource that touches every aspect of our
lives and livelihood, and beyond that it is
intrinsically linked to our energy use, as it
requires a tremendous amount of energy
to treat and transport water.
Janda Campos
Group Director, Sustainability Engagement, Grundfos
This was why we have aligned
with Agenda 2030 with our own
ambitious 2030 goals – to save 50
billion cubic metres of fresh water
through water efficiency and water
treatment, as well as being “climate
positive”. We will also look towards
contributing to providing safely
managed drinking water to 300
million people in need by 2030.
How we look to achieve this,
as well as supporting the wider
water industry in becoming more
sustainable, is to continue driving
the use of digital technology and
artificial intelligence (AI) in remote
sensing, asset management,
predictive analytics and more to
improve efficiency, sustainability
and to save costs.
Strategic partnership will also
play a key role in accelerating our
sustainability efforts, sharing and
building on each other’s industry
knowledge and expertise to move
the industry forward. We will
continue strengthening our existing
partnerships and seeking out new
ones.
Notably, we signed a long-term
strategic partnership agreement
with data analytics company Augury
to develop smart diagnostics
solutions and services. The
combination of Augury’s AI
solutions and our deep applications
knowledge has the potential to
change water delivery and services
as we know them. We have been
working together for several years
testing new products and service
offerings, such as the Grundfos
Machine Health, across several
markets and industries. Meanwhile,
our partnership with Siemens, a
smart city enabler, focuses on
solutions for water and energy
efficiency problems within smart
buildings, smart industry and smart
water networks.
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