Appointment of Non-Executive Director

 14 December 2017

Modern Water plc

("Modern Water" or "the Group")

Appointment of Non-Executive Director

Modern Water plc (AIM:MWG), the owner of leading technologies for water and wastewater treatment and for the monitoring of water quality, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr.Piers Benedict Clark as Non-Executive Director, with effect from 2 January 2018.

Piers Clark has extensive, relevant experience, having held senior management and board positions at large engineering businesses, particularly in water treatment, toxin monitoring and environmental management. He has also delivered high profile sustainability projects, including Europe's first commercial scale phosphorus recovery facility and, at the time of construction, the world's largest floating solar power array.

Previously, Dr. Clark was Commercial Director and a member of the Executive Management team at Thames Water and a director of Empire Water Inc. He has also previously held senior positions at the international engineering consultancy companies Mouchel plc and Atkins plc.

Dr. Clark currently serves as Non-Executive Director or Chairman on a number of boards, where he has successfully advised on strategic development and overseen corporate and sales growth. He is currently a director of dlo Haiti Inc., which provides clean water to rural populations in Haiti, backed by the IFC (part of the World Bank); and Bactest Ltd, which develops wastewater sensors.

In 2005, he founded the Technology Approval Group forum, which has linked more than 4,500 technologies with over 150 utility companies, facilitated over $1bn of investment in new technologies. He has a BSc in Environmental Sciences and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Southampton, is an internationally recognised expert in biosolid processing and sludge treatment, has published over 30 technical papers and filed six patent applications. Dr. Clark is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management and the Institute of Asset Management.

Alan Wilson, Modern Water's Non-Executive Chairman, commented: "On behalf of the board, I am delighted to welcome Piers to Modern Water. He has comprehensive experience in large scale industrial water treatment, environmental management and engineering companies, and has played a significant part in driving innovation within these specialist fields. We are very much looking forward to working with him and are confident that he will make an important contribution to our future successes."

Additional Information for Piers Benedict Clark (aged 48):

Piers Clark does not currently hold shares in Modern Water plc and no further information in connection with his appointment is required to be disclosed under Schedule Two, paragraph (g) (i) - (viii) of the AIM Rules for Companies. 

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Modern Water owns, installs and operates broad based membrane systems using world-leading Forward Osmosis (FO) membrane technologies; supplies packaged seawater Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination systems; supplies wastewater treatment solutions; and develops and supplies advanced systems for water monitoring. Its shares trade on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.

Modern Water's patented Forward Osmosis (FO) technology's benefits include lower energy consumption and less environmental impact in a variety of industries. With a sales presence in almost 60 countries, the Group's Monitoring Division includes a leading real-time continuous toxicity monitor and trace metal analysers for monitoring the quality of drinking water.

www.modernwater.com