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Scottish Water is keen to export expertise in line with Holyrood’s Hydro Nation agenda but it is a risky business, delegates heard at last week’s Faversham House conference Water Scotland.
Chris Wallace, director of communications at Scottish Water, said: “There is a bit of thinking required about asking public companies to go off and conquer the world, with an acknowledgment of the risk that entails.”
Those involved in shaping Holyrood’s Hydro Nation agenda had to decide which “pockets of expertise” to export, Wallace said. “We don’t have the arrogance to go to water-stressed countries and tell them how to desalinate, but there is expertise we are keen to share.”
Anthony Cox, head of environment and economy integration at the OECD, said Scotland would have to “stay at the top of its game” to compete in a crowded global marketplace.
This article first appeared in Utility Week’s print edition of 12th October 2012.
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