Water Values Podcast

Phil Wilson, the General Manager and CEO of the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) in Texas, addresses the impact of the drought on the LCRA, infrastructure funding and P3 issues, the energy-water nexus and more in this interview. (Phil also is a former Texas Secretary of State and former Executive Director of the Texas Department of Transportation). Phil does a great job explaining how LCRA is coping with the massive growth in Texas, while simultaneously experiencing record drought.

Steve Berens, CEO of Clear Comfort Water, LLC, discusses water tech and his company’s innovative water treatment solution. Clear Comfort is the world-wide licensee for pools and spas of a patented technology used for water treatment. Steve discusses a broad range of issues in the water tech space, explains the benefits of using the technology over chlorinated treatment, and describes the numerous ways in which the Clear Comfort technology can be applied to make water safer for human interaction.

Professor Neil Grigg of Colorado State University and the River Master of the Pecos River joins The Water Values Podcast this week. Neil has been involved with water for over 50 years and bestows just a fraction of his knowledge and experience on us in this interview. He discusses a wide range of water conflicts from small-scale to large-scale and relates stories of water conflict from both the East and the West in the United States. Tune in to learn about water conflicts and how they can be resolved.

Marshall Davert, the President of Government & Infrastructure for the Americas and Asia/Pacific for MWH Global identifies key water infrastructure issues and provides his insights into the relative health of our water infrastructure. Marshall also compares and contrasts the models for funding infrastructure in the Americas and in the Asia/Pacific region. This is a “can’t miss” session of The Water Values Podcast if you’re interested in infrastructure and a world tour of how infrastructure gets funde

Steve Maxwell of TechKNOWLEDGEy Strategic Group joins The Water Values Podcast this week to discuss the four ways we need to think differently about water. Steve shares a wealth of knowledge and experience in the water industry, and you’ll be sure to come away from this interview with a much broader understanding of the water issues affecting all of us and how we’ll look at those issues in the future.

Tim Eder, the Executive Director of the Great Lakes Commission, joins The Water Values Podcast this week. Tim passionately describes the issues affecting the Great Lakes, including pollution, invasive species, and habitat degradation and provides a hopeful message on how we’re overcoming these challenges in the Great Lakes. Tim was a terrific guest, so get ready to learn a lot about the Great Lakes in this interview.

The Water Values Podcast welcomes Lisa Bryant and Jeremy Jarnecke from the Bureau of Land Management. Lisa is the Assistant Field Manager in BLM’s Moab Office, and Jeremy is the State Hyrdologist for Utah BLM. Lisa and Jeremy explain a lot about how the BLM approaches water, and you’ll be surprised to learn how big of a role water plays in an agency whose primary mission is land management. Lisa and Jeremy were fantastic guests, and you’ll get a lot of the interview with them.

The Water Values Podcast welcomes Nicole Seltzer for Session 11. Nicole is the Executive Director of the Colorado Foundation for Water Education (CFWE). She delves into great detail about water education issues. And she does so in an entertaining way. You’ll learn all sorts of things you never thought about concerning water education.

The Water Values Podcast turns 10 this week! At least in terms of sessions released. In this session, Deloitte Consulting’s Will Sarni joins us to talk about water as both a business risk and opportunity. Will is Deloitte’s Practice Leader for Enterprise Water Strategy, and you will find his insights into the way in which businesses are attempting to qualify and quantify how water affects their business very intriguing.

This week, The Water Values Podcast welcomes noted economist and author David Zetland. David takes us on a wide-ranging interview where he discusses the relationship between the price of water, the value of water and the cost of water. He also addresses a number of other issues, such as water rate structures from an economist’s viewpoint, water as a local issue, and water scarcity. He provides great context for these and other topics through his new book, Living with Water Scarcity.