GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company, has announced its upcoming World Water Tour, a series of seminars which will bring water industry experts and industrial water users together to discuss best practices and solutions capable of meeting industry's growing need to minimize operational costs, create sustainable supplies of quality water, decrease energy consumption and meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements.
The 14-city tour will arrive in Beijing and Shanghai in fall 2007 and will focus on best practices proven in balancing the competitive business and environmental demands that often face industrial water users, especially those located in regions confronting water quality and scarcity challenges.
"Some of industries costliest mandates are regulatory compliancy, as well as water and energy use," said Jeff Garwood, president and CEO, GE Water & Process Technologies. "Experts will discuss ways industries can better meet business demands and improve productivity through solutions that can cut operational costs. And in competitive marketplaces, this can be an invaluable asset."
Currently, industries consume as much as 22% of the world's water. In developed countries, industrial water use is as high as 59%. For industrial water users in areas that lack access to adequate supplies of quality water, and often infrastructure too, creating a sustainable and dependable source of water can offer security, independence and increased opportunity for growth.
GE Water & Process Technologies' World Water Tour will touch on challenges that can often arise during industrial processes, such as: washing, diluting, cooling, transporting, processing, fabricating products, sanitizing facilities, and producing commodities such as, refined petroleum, chemicals, food, paper and primary metals.
