New award recognizes and celebrates a member that is a true water leader, making significant achievements in the water industry and has gone above and beyond in supporting STEM education. By: Isaiah Perez, Membership Manager, The Water Council On May 24, 2017, Dennis Webb, Owner of Sage Water, became the first-ever “Water Warrior of the… Read More
KEY INSIGHTS FROM THE FRONT LINE By: Scott Propp, Dentro Consulting LLC Water is the new key to security. I just had the privilege of attending and leading a panel at the 10th annual Water Leaders Summit held in Milwaukee on May 23 & 24th. This year’s big idea, “A Secure Future Needs Water,” brought together… Read More
Three months ago, Brad Ives, the associate vice chancellor at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill for utility services, faced the kind of phone call that’s almost unimaginable: His county water utility told him the university had to stop using water. A cascade of problems forced UNC-CH to turn off water to its campus… Read More
Deep inside some big water projects around the world, like the newly opened desal plant in San Diego, and the legendary desal plants in Perth, Australia, is Dow water technology. Snehal Desai heads Dow’s water and process solutions group, which makes a lot of the guts of sophisticated water systems — reverse osmosis technology, ion-exchange… Read More
“…Not only to realize that we needed to do it, but to actually do it,” said Uri Shani, inventor and entrepreneur in agriculture and water technologies and retired general manager and chairman of the Israeli Governmental Water & Sewer Authority. For five years, Uri Shani was the head of Israel’s Water Authority, presiding over a… Read More
“…of having a duel, only don’t use guns, you use words. That’s pretty much what the water war litigation has been about,” said Stephen O’Day, partner and head of the environmental law and sustainability practices at Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP. For 40 years, O’Day has been in the thick of the environmental efforts in… Read More
We ignore its security at our peril. Kathleen Ferris was a 28-year-old legislative aide in the Arizona Senate when she was tapped to be the executive director of the Arizona Groundwater Study Commission. “I tried to find someone else to take the job,” she says, “and no one would.” After months of wrangling, that group… Read More
PREPARING THE NEXT GENERATION OF FUTURE WATER LEADERS By: Colin Flanner, Intern & Student Chapter Liaison for The Water Council and Student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee This year a new course out of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences (SFS) recently became available to undergraduates at the main campus on… Read More
…THAT’S GOING TO BE HARD. IT MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE. When Andy Hobbs started working on water use at Ford, the company didn’t know how much water it used, or what that water cost. Today, Ford knows that to the nickel — and the water that’s used to make 100 cars now makes 220. “When we… Read More
“The challenge is making sure the water and the food don’t run ouT rather than trying to make peace after they do.” Hal Bidlack has been thinking about the impact of climate on warfare, and the impact of warriors on climate, since he was a graduate student earning a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan…. Read More