S7E3 - Seth Siegel: 50'000+ US Water Utilities, 500 Water Talks, 5 Decisive Truths?
with ๐๏ธ Seth Siegel - writer, lawyer, activist, serial entrepreneur, and an acclaimed public speaker. ๐ง You might have read his "Troubled Water" book - and if you haven't, you should - or his international best-seller "Let there be Water," translate...
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Show Notes
with ๐๏ธ Seth Siegel - writer, lawyer, activist, serial entrepreneur, and an acclaimed public speaker. ย
๐ง You might have read his "Troubled Water" book - and if you haven't, you should - or his international best-seller "Let there be Water," translated into 20+ languages.
What we covered:
๐ How water tariffs are desperately too low and how this has consequences on the entire utility sectorย
๐ฑ How we're operating municipal water exactly how we did it 75 or 100 years ago.ย
๐ด How when it comes to agriculture and irrigation, we're lagging even further behind, as we operate as it was done... 5000 years ago!ย
๐ Why Seth Siegel got interested in water in the first place, and what his creative process was for his two first books, Let There be Water and Troubled Water.ย
๐ชถ How the success of the books changed Seth's life and got him to speak in the who's who of the prestigious and impactful scenesย
๐ How Seth Siegel's approach to writing is not only to highlight problems but also to pair them with solutionsย
๐๏ธ Why consolidation is needed in the Water Utility sector and how it shall be doneย
โ What the actual problem with the scattered US utilities is, and how is it the worst of two worldsย
๐ค Why federal policies don't react to the right stimuli today - and how that shall change in the futureย
๐ฅ Why water can't be free, and what happens when you still try the gratis experimentย
๐ฎ Where water shall be treated in the future, why it will not be central anymore, and how the actual treatment may look likeย
โ๏ธ How technology shall support the roll-out of the new distributed approachย
๐พ Being a special member of a 1.3 million work group, putting ambitious projects on the ice during CoVid times, aborted new book research, new business endeavors... and much more!ย
๐ฅ ... and of course, we concluded with two ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ช๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐จ ๐ฅย ย ย
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โก๏ธ Send your warm regards to Seth on LinkedIn; he's more of a Twitter guy though!ย
โก๏ธ Visit Seth Siegel's Website
โก๏ธ Check out the full story (and a video) on Seth Siegel's vision of the Water World.
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