Peer Kamp is one of those easily recognisable fellows, I remember seeing him last year at SIWW. He always sports a bow tie and walks with a cane. He stands out. Peer is the Chief Technology Officer for PWN Technologies, a company that was launched at SIWW this week. For the last eight years he has been the director of the Research and Development department of PWN, the Water Supply Company North Holland. During his career he has developed break-through technologies in the field of Medium Pressure UV advanced oxidation, Ion Exchange and Ceramic Membrane filtration. After the PWN Technologies media conference yesterday I had a chance to briefly meet with Peer and ask him what his favourite quotes were. “We have two quotes in Holland that I like to use,” he explained. “First, is that in Holland every drop of water has passed through a German three times. The second is that every consequence leads to the devil.” (he spoke the second one in German – since it was long time ago that I studied German I have included the English tranlsation instead).

I managed to bump into Peer last night after the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize had finished. “I have a third favourite quote,” he was quick to tell me.  ”Principally I’m against principles!”