Episode 53: Discussing Water as a Global Community

In this month’s episode of Talking Under Water co-hosts Katie Johns and Bob Crossen discuss the Action Plan on Global Water Security that Vice President Harris announced earlier this month, in addition to the research American Water conducted on Americans’ perception of water infrastructure. Finally, this month’s interview is with Millicent Pitts, executive director of Ocean Exchange. Crossen and Pitts spoke about one water, circular economy and trends as it relates to technologies and frameworks for discussing water issues as a global community in addition to a local one.

Show Notes:

• http://www.wwdmag.com/one-water/addressing-americans-misconceptions-about-water-infrastructure

• https://bit.ly/wwdbentleywebinar

• Action Plan on Global Water Security 

Timestamps:

• Cold Open | 0:00

• Host introductions | 0:54

• Episode summary | 1:06

• Americans’ misconceptions about water infrastructure | 1:38

• Action Plan on Global Water Security | 4:58

• Interview with Millicent Pitts begins | 7:50

• What is Ocean Exchange? | 8:54

• Innovation grant funds for solutions providers | 11:00

• Criticality of a One Water vision and mission | 11:58

• Why a siloed approach can create problems for other silos | 15:45

• Water scarcity and how it is driving the industry | 16:45

• Water scarcity as a result of water quality | 20:50

• How Ocean Exchange evaluates start-ups for grant funding | 22:55

• Technology and solutions trends in the water sector | 28:00

• Interview ends | 33:12

• Housekeeping | 33:46

• Ends | 35:47

About the Podcast

Talking Under Water is the premier podcast for the water industry, including municipal and industrial water and wastewater, residential water treatment, storm water management and erosion control. It is produced in coordination between Water & Wastes Digest (WWD), Water Quality Products (WQP) and Storm Water Solutions (SWS). The podcast covers topics under the One Water movement including the municipal and industrial water and wastewater, point of use, point of entry, residential, storm water and erosion control markets. Talking Under Water highlights news, trends, new technologies, industry discussions and on-site interviews with experts for WWD, WQP and SWS. New episodes of the podcast are released on the third Friday of every month. Logo Images: Anatoly Tiplyashin / Romolo Tavani / stock.adobe.com.

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