(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

The 4 Horsemen of America's Water Apocalypse


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"Water Apocalypse" may come in as an exaggerated stretch; I'm sorry. Yet if you want a number to understand the magnitude of what we're discussing here: fixing America's water challenges is estimated at... $1 trillion. So, what makes for this Water Crisis in America?


This is the consequence of decades of flawed water management along four main lines. 

  • Broken infrastructure starts showing with nearly 15% of US citizens served with water that recently breached the Safe Water Act. When they get served at all, as 2.2 million Americans don't get any water services. 
  • Water economics are in dangerous imbalance. The combined effects of the "wrong pockets problem" and recurrent underinvestment place an entire section of the Water Sector in a perilous situation. 
  • Policies move and adapt slower than the changing world we live in. And even when they tend to evolve, enforcement is an entirely new problem. 
  • Beyond policies, an entire sector struggles to embrace change - when it inevitably will have to.
  • ▶️ Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube 

    ▶️ Check out my full article on the American Water Apocalypse 


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