Water In Real Life

The Rogue Water, LLC team has worked remotely for 2.5 years. They have customers across the country, but also a remote team spread out across multiple cities in Texas, San Francisco, and Wyoming. There are a plethora of resources about remote working available now because of the impacts of Covid-19. However, in true H2duO form, we wanted to give you our perspective in our own way. We are joined by Rogue Water's Chief Revolution Strategist, Nashelley Kaplan-Dailey.

Top Takeaways

1. Wear pants. Whether it's random knocks at the door, bored children or rogue animals, you never know why you might need to jump up from your seat.
2. Routine is your friend.
3. Place matters. Create your space.
4. Give yourself (and others) some grace.
5. Test tech in advance.
6. Try new tools. We love Slack.
7. Get organized. We use Monday.com.
8. Don't forget to have fun. It's not all about the meetings. Have team happy hours or movie nights.
9. Take breaks!
10. Take strategic breaks. Set time limits on TV and social.
11. Learn what makes your own "best day".
12. Specificity matters!
13. Food. Have a plan for the munchies.

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Samantha Villegas is a senior consultant with Raftelis, with more than 25 years of experience conducting public outreach for public works, in the areas of water, energy, and recycling. Samantha has assisted municipalities, water, and wastewater utilities with outreach, branding, reputation and crisis management, as well as the execution of communications strategies to ensure positive positioning for rate increases, acquisitions, capital projects, and change management. Sam served in a lead communications role for both a public water utility and a large, investor-owned utility. She has helped develop a number of guidance docs fir the sector, including ones on lead communication, Legionella communication, and the CCR. Sam has previously presented at Catalyst, ACE, Virginia AWWA’s JAM conference, and SWANA’s Waste Expo. Sam has been actively involved in the American Water Works Association (AWWA), where she served on the Public Affairs Council, and in the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), where she was the National Capital Chapter president and now serves on PRSA’s National Board of Directors. Sam holds a master’s degree in environmental policy and is accredited by PRSA.

Top Takeaways

• Build trust by ensuring you keep these four factors in mind in your messaging: frequency, transparency, consistency, and honesty.
• Reframe the bottled water message. Don't use the same language about why tap is better than bottled. Talk about how using tap keeps bottled water available for true water emergencies.
• Give your digital audience the call to action to share information with community members that may not have access to digital information.
• Check out the PRSA infodemic infographic. Rogue Water will also have an infographic available about the CAP method from the Vincent Covello Risk Communication Center.

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Thank you for sharing some of your time with us. We know how precious those minutes are. Share your story, you never know who needs to hear it and remember, “Those who tell the stories, rule the world.”

Erin (Pink) Mosley is President of a rapidly growing consultancy that provides innovation leadership and executive-style coaching to professionals and organizations. She has worked in the water sector for 25+ years and her clients include professionals at all levels of their careers, nonprofit and professional organizations, and municipal government. Her clients practice and apply deep innovation and influence skills to replace their chronic frustration with next-level results.

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Thank you for sharing some of your time with us. We know how precious those minutes are. Share your story, you never know who needs to hear it and remember, “Those who tell the stories, rule the world.”

Seth Siegel is a Senior Fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Water Policy and author of the NYT bestselling book Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World and the new book Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink. His work has won praise from Tony Blair, Michael Bloomberg, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Shimon Peres and Juan Manuel Santos.

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Thank you for sharing some of your time with us. We know how precious those minutes are. Share your story, you never know who needs to hear it and remember, “Those who tell the stories, rule the world.”

Reed Cohen, MSc is Director of the Frontline Healthcare Workers Safety Foundation, Ltd. (a global NGO.) He is also the founder and owner of TRR Consulting, LLC.

His biological safety instructional background includes curriculum design, instruction, management and evaluation on topics including BSL-4 suit training, bloodborne pathogens safety, Biosafety Level 3 and 4 training focusing on proper use of Personal Protective Equipment, Biological Safety Cabinets, and biohazardous facilities maintenance and operations.

Mr. Cohen currently serves on the Board of Directors for the International Federation of Biosafety Associations (IFBA).  He is a lifetime member of the Asia-Pacific Biosafety Association (APBA). Mr. Cohen received his M.Sc. in Biohazardous Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious Diseases from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Biology and Geography from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Thank you for sharing some of your time with us. We know how precious those minutes are. Share your story, you never know who needs to hear it and remember, “Those who tell the stories, rule the world.”

We've always known Jackie was the real deal, but she showed just how cool she was when she let Stephanie instigate an impromptu breakdance battle in Jackie's Presidential Suite at WEFTEC2019. We covered a lot of ground in this chat including:

• Her biggest goals for her year as president.
• WEF's plan for building more diversity and inclusion in the water sector.
• Addressing workforce challenges and the apprentice program at Charlotte Water.
• Getting YPs more involved, attending WEFTEC, plus some words of experience on the power of personal resiliency and patience when working in a risk-averse industry.
• Her one piece of magical advice.

Jackie Jarrell, P.E., is the 2019-20 president of the Water Environment Federation (WEF), an international organization of water quality professionals headquartered in Alexandria, Va.

Jackie has been with Charlotte Water for more than 29 years. Recently, Jackie was appointed as an interim Deputy Director for Charlotte Water. This has expanded her role to oversee Customer Service, Communications, Industrial Pretreatment, Laboratory Services, and the Industrial Pretreatment Program, with more than 60 significant industrial users. 

As a WEF member, Jackie has held multiple leadership and committee roles, including serving as the chair of the Utility Management Program Symposia and the first vice-chair of the Utility Management Committee.

She is actively involved with the North Carolina Water Quality Association, a regulatory advocacy organization of utilities in North Carolina, and is a past chair and a current board member.

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Thank you for sharing some of your time with us. We know how precious those minutes are. Share your story, you never know who needs to hear it and remember, “Those who tell the stories, rule the world.”

We were so excited to get to speak with several of the panelists at the Mazars Women of Water Event that took place in Washington DC on January 9, 2020. We also got to hit the networking floor at the post-event gathering and get the "word on the street" takeaways from the event too! Our panelist interviewees included:

Pat Sinicropi, Executive Director, WateReuse Association, the only national organization dedicated solely to advancing policy, technology, innovation and public acceptance for water reuse. Pat has nearly two decades of experience as a policy expert and advocate on water-related issues in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the WateReuse Association, she served as Senior Legislative Director for the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), overseeing and directing NACWA’s legislative advocacy program, including policy analysis and advocacy on federal water policy related to infrastructure funding and financing, climate and energy, integrated planning, rate-payer affordability, and agriculture. Pat joined NACWA in 2008 after serving four years as Legislative Counsel to the Water Environment Federation (WEF) where her policy advocacy also included biosolids management. Prior to joining WEF, Pat represented the Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP), an organization providing technical assistance to small, rural communities on drinking water and wastewater infrastructure needs. 

Debra Coy, Partner, XPV Partners. Debra Coy is a Partner with XPV Water Partners, the largest water-focused growth equity fund in North America, with $400 million in assets under management. She works with growth companies utilizing her experience as a top-ranked investment research analyst and strategic consultant to investors, companies, and municipal utilities. Ms. Coy is well known in the water industry from her 20 years on Wall Street as an equity research analyst, where she developed a leading franchise and broad expertise in covering the global water markets for investors at firms including Janney Montgomery Scott, Schwab Capital Markets, HSBC Securities, and National Westminster Bank. She serves on the Board of Directors for AquaVenture Holdings, Global Water Resources Inc., and Willdan Group Inc., and is a regular speaker and columnist on water industry finance and innovation.

Wendy Stevens, Partner, Mazars. Wendy is a Partner at Mazars where she leads the firm’s Quality & Risk Management Team. Wendy’s more than 35 years of experience includes providing accounting and auditing services to a variety of public and private clients in a multitude of industries. She founded and serves as Chair of Women@Mazars USA. Women@Mazars is a long-term effort supporting the full potential of women leaders at Mazars through education, awareness, and improving visibility of and access to role models. Women@Mazars actively engages all men and women at the firm, building diverse teams to enhance the growth of the firm and the individual. She also serves on the Mazars Group Quality & Risk Management Board.

Please consider rating the podcast with 5 stars and leaving a one- or two-sentence review in iTunes or on Stitcher. This helps tremendously in bringing the podcast to the attention of others. We give a shoutout to everyone who rates the podcast with 5 stars in future episodes.

Give us some love on Twitter or Instagram and tag us @roguewaterlab or by using #WaterInRealLifePodcast

If you know someone you think would benefit, please spread the word by using the share buttons on this page.

Thank you for sharing some of your time with us. We know how precious those minutes are. Share your story, you never know who needs to hear it and remember, “Those who tell the stories, rule the world.”

Please consider rating the podcast with 5 stars and leaving a one- or two-sentence review in iTunes or on Stitcher. This helps tremendously in bringing the podcast to the attention of others. We give a shoutout to everyone who rates the podcast with 5 stars in future episodes.

Give us some love on Twitter by tagging us @THE_H2duO or by using the #WaterInRealLifePodcast

If you know someone you think would benefit, please spread the word by using the share buttons on this page.

Thank you for sharing some of your time with us. We know how precious those minutes are. Share your story, you never know who needs to hear it and remember, “Those who tell the stories, rule the world.”