Beyond the headlines: insights into 2024 water spills and monitoring innovation

Date: 13:00:00 - Apr 24 2025

Speakers: Oliver Grievson

Join us for an in-depth exploration of the 2024 spill data, where we move beyond paper headlines to uncover the real story.

This webinar will examine water company performance, analyse individual actions taken, and evaluate the current monitoring programs. We'll also discuss groundbreaking innovations in monitoring, challenges on the horizon, and strategies for improving spill management in the future.

Gain a clearer picture of the 2024 results and learn how we can collectively drive better outcomes for water quality.

Key learnings

Understanding monitoring evolution: explore the history of spill monitoring, how it's done today, and how data is validated ("ground-truthing")
Innovation in monitoring: discover new technologies and methods improving spill tracking and explore the challenges we face in adopting these advancements
Deep dive into 2024 performance: analyse detailed performance data from 2024, including successes, shortcomings, and what they reveal about the future of water spill management.

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Speakers

Oliver Grievson

Professor Oliver Grievson is an Associate Director and Technical Authority at the global engineering consultancy, AtkinsRéális, as well as a Royal Academy Visiting Professor in Digital Water at the University of Exeter among many other water industry roles. His specialisms are in wastewater process engineering, monitoring and digital water which are fields he has worked in for over 25 years. He has worked in everything from operational management, process engineering design to helping water companies getting the most out of their monitoring from implementing instrumentation management systems to complex data analytics and control by working with the data to understand the operational performance to come up with solutions for some of the industries largest problems. Oliver has a passion for digital water and specifically on how we can use data to glean insight into the daily operations of the industry.