I'm Stacey Edwards, the newest member of the Viridis Drinking Water team. I graduated from a Chemical and Environmental Engineering degree at UQ at the end of last year. During my studies I found a passion for all things water treatment and management. I've had the opportunity to explore this for the past year in a hands on role at a PFAS removal pilot plant. Getting to operate an innovative new water treatment system and see the potential impact of water management on public

If you missed last month's newsletter I posted a riddle in the introduction, which goes as follows: a blind beggar had a brother who died. What relation was the blind beggar to the brother who died? “Brother” is not the answer. This is a straight forward riddle, but is only difficult because of our unconscious bias. The majority of people initially assume that the beggar is a man. Obviously, the answer has to be sister, but our bias prevents us from considering this as an ans

These days we are doing a lot of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities, including training. Training is a vital part of learning new skills (or getting refreshers). I myself attended a training course earlier this year. I picked up on a very interesting (interesting to me at least) thing which the trainer mentioned, which was, to use or apply what you have learnt within a few days or you may forget it. He referred to the Forgetting Curve. In the late 19th centu