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TWENTY65 paved the way for a water future inspired and enabled by research, collaboratively and coherently accelerating innovation and delivering an energised water sector focused on sustainable tailored water solutions that positively impact public health, the environment, the economy and society.

 

In the UK, we benefit from a continuous supply of clean water to our houses and businesses 24 hours a day. The general infrastructure used to deliver this is the same across the whole country, and the processes used are both energy and chemically intensive. This results in some of the cleanest water in the world being delivered to everyone from the northern tip of Scotland to the south Coast, whenever we need it.

 

However, our water supply systems are facing numerous and increasing challenges. Our growing population, ageing infrastructure and the impacts of climate change could result in a number of potentially disastrous future scenarios.

 

So how do we build resilience, efficiency and adaptability into our systems, networks and catchments to ensure we all receive clean water, sustainably, by the year 2065 and beyond? 

The answer is not straight forwards and requires significant changes to the way we manage and regulate our water systems. We need to develop disruptive innovations and facilitate market uptake, but it is clear that there is no single 'silver bullet' solution.

 

To do this we need to develop and demonstrate safe technologies and solutions at unusual scales and novel environmental and societal constraints.

The UK Water industry is fragmented and often referred to as 'working in silos'. The TWENTY65 team aim to bridge the innovation gap between cutting-edge academic research and the wider water industry by bringing the industry together to think about water in entirely new ways. We're starting from the assumption that the existing centralised systems are unsustainable from an economic, sociological and ecological perspective. Traditional water treatment plants are large, unpopular with the general public, and require considerable investment to ensure they can continue beyond their current lifespans and operating capacities.

 

Our mission is to deliver sustainable tailored water solutions with a positive impact for public health, the environment, economy and society. 

Funded initially by the EPSRC, TWENTY65 will develop social and technological solutions tailored to specific challenges at niche locations within the water cycle, resulting in a 'silver basket' of potential solutions. When put together, the 'silver basket' will offer bespoke solutions, deployed at the point-of-need. We can only achieve success with this grand challenge by working coherently with all players within the water industry - if you are interested in working with our growing consortium, please contact us at twenty65@sheffield.ac.uk





Who

Role at T65

Affiliation at during time of project

CORE TEAM

Prof Joby Boxall

TWENTY65 Principal Investigator and Technical Director

University of Sheffield

Prof Vanessa Speight

TWENTY65 Managing Director

University of Sheffield

Caroline Wadsworth

Water Innovation Hub Manager

University of Sheffield

Dr Laura Roberts

Water Innovation Hub Outreach and Dissemination Manager

University of Sheffield

Dr Emma Westling

Research Associate and Impact Co-ordinator

University of Sheffield

Lindsey Farnsworth

Water Innovation Hub Administrator

University of Sheffield

RESEARCHERS

Prof Michael Templeton

Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

Imperial College London

Prof Simon Tait

Lead - Minimising carbon emissions through synergistic water-energy systems

University of Sheffield

Prof Kirill Horoshenkov

Lead -  Robotics

University of Sheffield

Prof Martin Mayfield

Foresight and integration

University of Sheffield

Prof Virginia Stovin

City as a water resource

University of Sheffield

Dr Liz Sharp

Lead - Mobilisation as an innovation

University of Sheffield

Dr Kamal Birdi

Lead - Collaboration for Innovation

University of Sheffield

Prof David Butler

Lead - City as a water resource

University of Exeter

Prof Nigel Graham

Lead - Adapting to changing catchments

Imperial College London

Prof Richard Dawson

Lead - Foresight and integration

University of Newcastle

Prof Joanna Clark

Adapting to changing catchments

University of Reading

Dr Peter Melville-Schreeve

City as a water resource

University of Exeter

Dr Alison Browne

Mobilisation as an innovation

University of Manchester

Dr Claire Walsh

Using digital twins to explore water futures

University of Newcastle

Prof Richard Brazier

Adapting to changing catchments

University of Exeter

Dr Kerrie Unsworth

Collaboration for innovation

University of Leeds

Dr Richard Collins

Robotics

University of Sheffield

Dr Graham Stafford

Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

University of Sheffield

Dr Henriette Jensen

Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

University of Sheffield

Dr Martina McGuiness

Collaboration for innovation

University of Sheffield

Dr Alma Schellart

Minimising carbon emissions through synergistic water-energy systems

University of Sheffield

Dr Mark Ogden

Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

University of Sheffield

Dr Jonathan Ritson

Adapting to changing catchments

Imperial College London

Dr Charlotte Hawkins

Adapting to changing catchments

University of Reading

Phiala Mehring

Adapting to changing catchments

University of Reading

Dr Christopher Parrott

Robotics

University of Sheffield

Dr Fei Liu

Minimising carbon emissions through synergistic water-energy systems

University of Sheffield

Dr Elizabeth Court

Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

University of Sheffield

Joe Hook

Foresight and Integration

University of Sheffield

Dr Majed Khadem

Foresight and Integration

University of Sheffield

Dr Ruth Quinn

City as a water resource

University of Sheffield

Prof Raziyeh Farmani

City as a water resource

University of Exeter

Gabby Powell

Adapting to changing catchments

University of Reading

Charlotte Hawkins

Adapting to changing catchments

University of Reading

Joe Croft

Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

Imperial College London

Prof Chris Collins

Adapting to changing catchments

University of Reading

Fiona Ribbons

Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

Imperial College London

Prof Catherine Biggs

Lead - Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

University of Sheffield/Newcastle University

Lindsay Hopcroft

Water Innovation Hub Administrator

University of Sheffield

Dr Wenzheng Yu

Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

Imperial College London

Dr Vitor Martins

Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

University of Sheffield

Dr Alex Riley

Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

University of Sheffield

Dr Ben Krueger

Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

Imperial College London

Teng Liu

Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

Imperial College London

Prof Tony Dodd

Robotics

University of Sheffield

Richard Molyneux

Robotics

University of Sheffield

Emily Dalby

City as a water resource

University of Sheffield

Hamza Askari

City as a water resource

University of Sheffield

Dr Michael Bell

Adapting to changing catchments

University of Reading

Tom Kelly

Adapting to changing catchments

University of Reading

Dr Emilie Grand-Clement

Adapting to changing catchments

University of Exeter

Dr Fatima Ajia

Mobilisation as an innovation

University of Sheffield

Juliet De Little

Mobilisation as an innovation

University of Sheffield

Christine Sefton

Mobilisation as an innovation

University of Sheffield

Dr Jeanette Garwood

Collaboration for innovation

University of Sheffield

Dr James Porter

Collaboration for innovation

University of Sheffield

Dr Rizwan Nawaz

Foresight and Integration

University of Sheffield

Kaiyan Zhou

Demand-based technologies for tailored treatment

Imperial College London

STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARD

Tom Flood, Chair

 

UK Water Partnership

Louis Brimacombe

 

Independent (formerly Tata Steel)

Issy Caffoor

 

Independent (formerly Yorkshire Water)

Margaret Cobbold

 

Independent (formerly Veolia Environmental Trust)

Tony Conway

 

Independent (formerly United Utilities)

Sarah Hendry

 

DEFRA

Richard Laikin

 

Independent (formerly PWC)

Andrew Lawrence

 

EPSRC

David Leon

 

Nationwide

Jess Phoenix

 

DEFRA

Philip Sellwood

 

Energy Saving Trust

Dave Tickner

 

WWF

 

LEADERSHIP ADVISORY BOARD

Tony Conway, Chair

 

Independent (formerly United Utilities)

Jon Brigg

 

Yorkshire Water

Issy Caffoor

 

Independent (formerly Yorkshire Water)

Chris Digman

 

Stantec

Peter Drake

 

WIF

Michael Elwell

 

Independent (formerly Aliaxis)

Georgina Freeman

 

EPSRC

Andrea Gysin

 

Thames Water

Tony Harrington

 

Dwr Cymru Welsh Water

Paul Horton

 

Future Water Association

Hans Jensen

 

UKWIR / UK Water Partnership

Dani Jordan

 

WWF

Chris Jones

 

Northumbrian Water

Steve Kaye

 

Anglian Water / UKWIR

Maria Calderon Munoz

 

EPSRC

Tony Rachwal

 

UK Water Partnership

Jon Rathjen

 

Scottish Government

Adrian Rees

 

AECOM/Arup

Paul Rutter

 

Thames Water

Ronan Palmer

 

Ofwat

Ruqaiyah Patel

 

EPSRC

George Ponton

 

Scottish Water

Martin Shouler

 

Arup

Bob Stear

 

Severn Trent Water

Tony Williams

 

British Water

Mark Worsfold

 

South West Water