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Episode 45: G. Tracy Mehan, III is Executive Director, Government Affairs, for the American Water Works Association (AWWA). He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. He was Principal with The Cadmus Group, Inc., an environmental consulting firm, from 2004 to 2014. Mehan served on EPA’s Environmental Financial Advisory Board (2014-2018) as well as the boards of the U.S. Water Alliance and the Great Lakes Observing System. Mehan served as Assistant Administrator for Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2001-2003. Mehan also served as director of the Michigan Office of the Great Lakes (1993-2001) and as Associate Deputy Administrator of EPA in 1992. He was director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources from 1989 to 1992. Mehan is a graduate of Saint Louis University and its School of Law.
This episode's motto: "Political interference can be bad for quality water service."
Links from Tracy:
(1) Buried No Longer: Confronting America’s Water Infrastructure Challenge: http://www.urbanwaterslearningnetwork.org/resources/awwa-confronting-americas-water-infrastructure-challenge2017/
(2)Addressing Affordability as a Necessary Element of Full‐Cost Pricing: https://awwa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.5942/jawwa.2017.109.0132
Related links from David:
(3) "Water civilization: The evolution of the Dutch drinking water sector" https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=164
(4) "The struggle for residential water metering in England and Wales" http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue1/307-a9-1-6
(5)https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/01/flint-detroit/
(6)https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2017/08/lead-poisoning-gasoline-lobbies-and-crime/
(7) https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2008/10/the-good-side-of-bottled-water/
(8)https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/07/the-future-of-water-the-review/
(9) Water pollution and falling sperm counts:
https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2007/12/women-responsible-for-drooping/
https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=255
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Episode 45: G. Tracy Mehan, III is Executive Director, Government Affairs, for the American Water Works Association (AWWA). He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. He was Principal with The Cadmus Group, Inc., an environmental consulting firm, from 2004 to 2014. Mehan served on EPA’s Environmental Financial Advisory Board (2014-2018) as well as the boards of the U.S. Water Alliance and the Great Lakes Observing System. Mehan served as Assistant Administrator for Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2001-2003. Mehan also served as director of the Michigan Office of the Great Lakes (1993-2001) and as Associate Deputy Administrator of EPA in 1992. He was director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources from 1989 to 1992. Mehan is a graduate of Saint Louis University and its School of Law.
This episode's motto: "Political interference can be bad for quality water service."
Links from Tracy:
(1) Buried No Longer: Confronting America’s Water Infrastructure Challenge: http://www.urbanwaterslearningnetwork.org/resources/awwa-confronting-americas-water-infrastructure-challenge2017/
(2)Addressing Affordability as a Necessary Element of Full‐Cost Pricing: https://awwa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.5942/jawwa.2017.109.0132
Related links from David:
(3) "Water civilization: The evolution of the Dutch drinking water sector" https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=164
(4) "The struggle for residential water metering in England and Wales" http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue1/307-a9-1-6
(5)https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/01/flint-detroit/
(6)https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2017/08/lead-poisoning-gasoline-lobbies-and-crime/
(7) https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2008/10/the-good-side-of-bottled-water/
(8)https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/07/the-future-of-water-the-review/
(9) Water pollution and falling sperm counts:
https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2007/12/women-responsible-for-drooping/
https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=255