WIP Editorial
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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Major Water Infrastructure Projects Available Throughout The U.S.
2/11/2021
Billions of dollars are spent each year to renew, replace, expand, or upgrade water systems. The need to do more, and spend more, increases each year. That’s because the country’s aging water infrastructure has been neglected for too long.
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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.
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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?"
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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.
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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”.
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Top 5 Clean Water Stories On TriplePundit In 2020
12/30/2020
Never has a year felt more momentous than 2020. But while our lives turned upside down in a global pandemic, water issues continued to make headlines. In fact, access to clean water became even more important when hand washing became a primary action to prevent the spread of COVID-19. And despite the fact that most of us have been at home for most of this year, climate change and its effect on water have not slowed.