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Hi! My name is Bill Chamberlin. While I am employed as a Principal Analyst at IBM, this blog represents my own work on my own time. Any opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent IBM's views or opinions.
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This Tumblr blog is part of my HorizonWatching community effort, which is all about sharing information about emerging trends, technologies, and issues that will impact businesses of all sizes in the future.
Horizonwatching can be found on other social sites, just Google "HorizonWatching"
January 24, 2012
June 1, 2010
"EWG rated big city (population over 250,000) water utilities based on three factors: the total number of chemicals detected since 2004; the percentage of chemicals found of those tested; and the highest average level for an individual pollutant, relative to legal limits or national average amounts, including for the most common pollutants (disinfection byproducts, nitrate and arsenic)."
— Source: How Clean is City Water? View EWG’s Big City Water Ratings via Environmental Working Group
June 1, 2010
"Water utilities spend 19 times more on water treatment chemicals every year than the federal government invests in protecting lakes and rivers from pollution in the first place."
— Source: “Over 300 Pollutants in U.S. Tap Water” http://www.ewg.org/tap-water/home
March 9, 2010
"There is much work to be done to transform old utility infrastructures to a Smart Grid system. The transformation will not happen overnight, but could happen over a series of decades. When complete, countries that transform their utilities infrastructure to an Intelligent Utility Network will have a modern network of sensor-based interactive technologies that will give utilities and consumers unprecedented control over managing energy use, improving energy grid operations, and significantly reducing energy costs."
— A Primer on the Smart Grid and Intelligent Utility Network Trend
February 1, 2010
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