Professor Bruce Hendry MSc. BSc. (UK) has 36 years of extensive practical and academic experience in Water Treatment Technology. He is currently the Professor of Water Desalination at Cape Peninsula University.

He gives lectures to both undergraduates and postgraduates on the subject of Desalination of Water Resources & Effluents with Recovery of Chemical Values, Electro-membrane Processes: Saline Waste Electrolysis & Electrodialysis, Biotechnology Applications of Membranes & Adsorptive Materials, Innovative Water & Waste Treatment as well as Reuse Applications, Minerals Industry Technology Applications including Ion Exchange, Fluidized Beds, Sedimentation and Membrane Equipment.

Professor Hendry started his industrial career as a Laboratory Technician on Water Analysis at the Department of Water Affairs. Through hard work he became the Senior Officer of Water Treatment Quality and Pollution Control. He was consistently promoted to Senior Engineer for Water Treatment Plant Design and Operation. Finally, he became the Lead Engineer for Sea Water Desalination Process including research, pilot plant planning, construction and overall desalination plant operation. Then he worked for BINTECH as the Development Manager of Desalination Tubular Reverse Osmosis manufacture and applications. He became a Consultant on Water & Wastewater Treatment and later on founded his own business , Solutions Technology Ltd. specializing in Desalination Process and Water Treatment.

Professor Hendry has presented numerous papers such as Desalination Technologies-Outlook, Challenges & Opportunities, Membrane Filtration of Seawater, Continuous Countercurrent Ion Exchange for Desalination & Other Brackish Water, Chemical Recovery and Recycling of Water, A New Ion Exchange Process for Treatment of Hard Waters & Acid Mine Drainage Water , and many more.