with 🎙️ Upmanu Lall - Director of the Columbia Water Center  

💧 The Columbia Water Center aims to creatively tackle water challenges of a rapidly changing world where water and climate interact with food, energy, ecosystems, and urbanization.

What we covered:

🥷🏽 How many of the water challenges we face fly under the radar in places where no one actually expects them - and what to do about it 

🎛️ How centralized infrastructure may not be future-proof and how decentralized and distributed systems rapidly take over 

🇮🇳 How that takeover of decentralized water treatments already induced a kind of post-utility era in places like India 

🛒 What the rapid evolution of the Amazon Water Filter segment tells about the expectations of end-users and the reactivity of some sections of the Water Industry 

📋 How the rethink goes beyond under the sink water filter to also address flood mitigation, engineering approaches, and risk management 

🇨🇳 How the best example for a successful roll-out of new water management approaches may well come from China 

💧 The Columbia Water Center and its missions, disrupting century-old approaches, reinventing water utilities, leveraging digitization… and much more!

🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥   

➡️ Send your warm regards to Upmanu on LinkedIn. 

➡️ Check Columbia Water Center's website 

➡️ A big THANK YOU to Sciens Water for enabling this episode!

➡️ Check out the entire article on how radical decentralization may take over centralized water infrastructure, including teasers and a full transcript on the (don't) Waste Water website!