ARTICLES BY JIM LAURIA

• Cannabis: A Unique Perspective

  9/22/2021

  The cannabis industry is riding sky-high and heading for the clouds as legalization expands and markets grow. Cannabis growers are also poised to lead agriculture in water use efficiency and gain an upper hand in long-term contests over access to precious water.

• Telling Water's Story; Selling Your Story

  9/7/2021

  Why good storytelling is important for improving the state of municipal water service.

• My Favorite Water Podcasts

  7/20/2021

  When I pitched my idea of a water podcast to Adam Tank — marketer, storyteller, and millennial — he was skeptical because there were so many other water podcasts out there. I believed the world needed a podcast about telling the story of water, so I tackled the challenge just like I would take on any professional opportunity. I surveyed the landscape and created a mind map to get a sense of who else was in the space, and made it my business to learn from the best.

• Water Quotes From Environmental Advocates

  4/22/2021

  Today, on Earth Day, I thought it appropriate to post my favorite water quotes from environmental advocates…

• Water Quotes From Scientists

  4/8/2021

  The last post in my “Water Quotes from…” series was Water Quotes from Funny People. So this time I’d like to post water quotes from people who do serious work, scientists. The definition of a scientist is a person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences. That sounds like serious business to me.

• Water Quotes From Funny People

  3/22/2021

  Water is a serious matter, but when I was traveling around the world, meeting with people, and benchmarking the best global water management practices, I found that humor, like water, is the universal solvent.

• Deep Dive Into Data Reveals Powerful Ozone Story

  3/11/2021

  There's a lot of truth to the adage that knowledge is power — and what's equally true is that many of us don't realize the power that is literally at our fingertips. At Mazzei, we recently engaged in a six-month campaign to study opportunities in the ozone market for our venturi injectors and sidestream injection systems, which have been catching on in ozone installations covering a wide range of configurations and sizes. In many cases, companies like ours would turn to a market consulting firm for an expensive survey of the marketplace and high-level meetings to discuss the firm's advice.

• Water Quotes From Women

  3/8/2021

  As many of my followers know, I have been writing about the connection between women and water for a long time. Here is an excerpt from a post I wrote a number of years ago, A Valentine to Women Who Keep the Water Flowing…

• Water Quotes From U.S. Presidents

  2/16/2021

  I recently wrote an open letter to President Joe Biden requesting a commitment to make the funding of U.S. water infrastructure a priority in his Build Back Better program. I sent a similar open letter to president-elect Donald Trump back in 2016.

• An Open Letter To President Biden On Water

  2/9/2021

  Dear President Biden: Congratulations on your election, and on starting your term with a strong commitment to infrastructure, which you outlined during the campaign in your Build Back Better platform.

• A Tale Of Two Movies: Brave Blue World And Dark Waters

  1/20/2021

  It was the best of water, it was the worst of water, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the year of COVID and Brave Blue World and the year of Dark Waters. Two films on water bridged the gulf between Charles Dickens' spring of hope and darkness of despair, showing audiences two sides of the ongoing evolution of the water industry.

• Water Quotes From Famous People

  1/15/2021

  In my last post, Water Quotes from Movies and Films, and during our Water We Talking About? podcast with Paul O’Callaghan, I give a big thanks to actor Matt Damon for his efforts around water. In the hopeful documentary Brave Blue World, Matt expresses my sentiments and those of many of my fellow water professionals… "How lucky are we that we are the ones who get to solve this?"

• Water Quotes From Movies And Films

  1/13/2021

  My favorite book of 2020 was about one of my favorite movies of all time, water or otherwise, Chinatown. In his book The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood, author Sam Wasson gives the perspectives of screenwriter Robert Towne, producer Robert Evans, director Roman Polanski, and lead actor Jack Nicholson in the making of the 1974 film. The movie was inspired by the California Water Wars, a series of disputes over southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century, by which Los Angeles interests secured water rights in the Owens Valley.

• Water Quotes From Chinese Teachings

  1/7/2021

  Recent LinkedIn posts have highlighted the tensions building up between India and China over Chinese control of the water supply flowing out of Tibet. Will Sarni posted the South China Morning Post headline “India and China gear up for a new battle, this time over water” and Stuart Shapiro provided a link to a Byline Times article “War Over Water: The New Flashpoint in the India-China Stand-Off”.