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Water Anthology
Damned if we don’t!
About the book
DAMNED IF WE DON’T! Ideas for accelerating change around water is a series of essays written by thought leaders who are addressing, head- on, the issues surrounding water. Learn from individuals who are making a difference, innovating solutions, and challenging the status quo. This book will help you transcend the current silos that exist across the water supply chain so you can explore the edges of ideas that are helping us accelerate change!
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1. Extreme Weather in Canada – Math & Aftermath – R.W. Sandford
2. Integration and Consciousness – Suzanne King
3. The End of Traditional Conferences: How Water Discussions Must Evolve – Karen Kun
4. Developing Leadership in the Water Sector – Renee Kayal
5. The Hidden Gem of Women’s Networks in the Water Industry – Leila Munla
6. Water Issues are People Issues – Julia Ko
7. Advancing One Water Management with One Water Communication – Donna Vincent Roa
8. Social Media. For best results, don’t block it at your utility. – Todd Danielson
9. Water Clusters and the Acceleration of Innovation – Jon Grant
10. Technology, Utilities and Innovation – from “What if?” to “Here’s how” – Jim Ginley
11. Industrial Ecosystems: 21st Century Challenges, 21st Century Solutions – Jim Lauria
12. Accelerating Innovation – McGee Young
13. Convergence: Utilities need to mind the data as well as the drops. – Graham Symmonds
14. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Digital Efficiency – Alan Hinchman
15. Non-Revenue Water: A Prime Target of Water Innovation – David McGimpsey
16. Tapping into the Power of Behavioral Science: Insights & Opportunities for Water-Use Efficiency – Peter Yolles
17. Conserve2Enhance: Bridging Voluntary Water conservation and Community-driven Environmnetal Enhancement – Candice Rupprecht, Dr. Sharon Megdal, et al
18. Getting beyond dots on a map: Collaborative science and scenario planning in the Upper Gila River Watershed – Kelly Mott Lacroix & Dr. Sharon Megdal
19. Rainfrastructure: Builiding Rain Grid Stormwater Utilities – Kevin Mercer
20. From Serious Issues to Serious Games – and Back! – Chengzi Chew & Gareth James Lloyd
21. COMING SOON
22. COMING SOON
23. COMING SOON
24. COMING SOON
25. Now What – Chris Peacock
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Learn what some of our Authors have to say in this book.
Robert Sandford - Western Watersheds Research Collaborative
What we are seeing is that our global hydrology is clearly changing. These changes are beginning to occur faster than our economies, markets and environment can adjust.
Suzanne King - Integrated Water Management
The willingness of leaders to provide guidance and share best practices is not a new concept, but is further enhanced with collaborative communities.
Karen Kun - Waterlution
Waterlution’s purpose is to inspire pattern-making and pattern-breaking change towards a healthy and sustainable relationship with water.
Renee Kayal - Water Environment Federation
People want to build strong, lasting relationships within the water industry.
Leila Munla - Women in Ontario in Water
By creating a foundation of strong partnerships between women from different aspects of the water industry, the future picture of water will likely be far more collaborative and solution oriented.
Julia Ko - Water Policy Analyst
Maybe a solution to complex challenges is to find ways of increasing time for people to think and innovate, starting with how people work.
Donna Vincent Roa - Master Strategist : Water and Sustainability Communication
We need to teach people how to value our water resources by regularly providing positive storylines about water and the cycle of water in language, concepts and images that they can understand.
Todd Danielson - Avon Lake Regional Water
One of the most important aspects about building our relationship with the customer is building name recognition.
Jon Grant - WaterTap Ontario
The transfer of data and information through the global network of clusters will enable faster adoption of innovative technology.
Jim Ginley - Isle Utilities
The innovative ideas from the world's R&D laboratories, think tanks and technology clusters are in many cases going unnoticed and their potential unrealized.
Jim Lauria - Global Water Advisors, Inc.
We're at the cusp of a new industrial revolution - the era of the "industrial watershed" - and its is poised to change the water industry as well as industry in general.
McGee Young - MeterHero
While the water sector is not particularly popular among startups, we must understand that there is still considerable innovation happening within the water industry.
Sunit Mohindroo - WatrHub Inc.
Before we can solve data challenges in the water industry, we first have to look at the current state of data within the industry today.
Graham Symmonds - FATHOM
This combination of infrastructure, information and incentives will be the hallmark of the smart water utility in the future!
Alan Hinchman - GE Intelligent Platforms
A well formulated plan will help you transform your operation from reactive and unpredictable into an efficient, intelligent, and highly profitable one where data becomes your best business partner.
David McGimpsey - The Water Values
A deep dive into non-revenue water metrics results in a treasure trove of useful information for the utility
Kelly Mott Lacroix & Sharon Medgal - University of Arizona
Planning for water management at the watershed scale offers the opportunity to consider a wide range of inter-related resources and issues in a unified way.
Kevin Mercer - RiverSides Foundation
Despite stormwater damage being one of the largest sources of insurance claims, there remains a disconnect between landowners' behavior and municipal responsibility.
Chengzi Chew & Gareth James Lloyd - DHI: AquaRepublica
Serious games using real life data - coupled with real time modelling and combining model results with social and economic factors - opens up a new paradigm for active stakeholder participation and education that will help us enable change.
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About Water Anthology Press
Our relationship with water is a complicated one.
To serve generations to come, we must transform the way we value water – monetarily, emotionally, and societally. We must embed a new water ethos into our culture and change the conversation around this most precious element.
Water Anthology Press is an imprint of The Water Innovation Project, LLC: an idea lab, consultancy, and leadership hub with a mission to transform the way we value water through innovation and collaboration. This book is one project to help address the question: How do we manage our relationship with water and change the conversation?
Ready to join the revolution? Have an idea for a book? Contact us today!