The First Water Utility Manager: Frontinus vs. Modern Utilities
In 97 AD, Sextus Julius Frontinus inherited Rome's nine a...
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The First Water Utility Manager: Frontinus vs. ...
In 97 AD, Sextus Julius Frontinus inherited Rome's nine aqueducts—800 kmof conduit serving over one million people—and found a system crippled notby poor engineering but by poor management. Leaks, theft,...
The First Water Utility Manager: Frontinus vs. ...
In 97 AD, Sextus Julius Frontinus inherited Rome's nine aqueducts—800 kmof conduit serving over one million people—and found a system crippled notby poor engineering but by poor management. Leaks, theft,...
The Grab: Why Every Water Operator Should Watch...
Gabriela Cowperthwaite's award-winning documentary follows investigative journalists uncovering how sovereign powers, corporations, and mercenary groups are racing to control the world's food and water supplies. For water operators managing canals,...
The Grab: Why Every Water Operator Should Watch...
Gabriela Cowperthwaite's award-winning documentary follows investigative journalists uncovering how sovereign powers, corporations, and mercenary groups are racing to control the world's food and water supplies. For water operators managing canals,...
The Water Paradox: When Mismanagement Matters M...
Edward Barbier asks the question every water professional should confront: if water is so valuable and increasingly scarce, why is it so consistently mismanaged? His answer — spanning millennia, dozens...
The Water Paradox: When Mismanagement Matters M...
Edward Barbier asks the question every water professional should confront: if water is so valuable and increasingly scarce, why is it so consistently mismanaged? His answer — spanning millennia, dozens...
Connecting leadership insights from "The Unseen...
The Unseen Leader: What Water Utilities Can Learn from History's Most Effective Leaders How boring management, environmental intelligence, and swimming with currents can transform utility performance Harvard Business School professor...
Connecting leadership insights from "The Unseen...
The Unseen Leader: What Water Utilities Can Learn from History's Most Effective Leaders How boring management, environmental intelligence, and swimming with currents can transform utility performance Harvard Business School professor...
From Surgery to Water Systems: How the Checklis...
When Dr. Atul Gawande introduced the surgical checklist to operating rooms worldwide, he demonstrated something profound: even the most skilled professionals benefit from systematic verification. His principles, outlined in "The...
From Surgery to Water Systems: How the Checklis...
When Dr. Atul Gawande introduced the surgical checklist to operating rooms worldwide, he demonstrated something profound: even the most skilled professionals benefit from systematic verification. His principles, outlined in "The...
Elevating Government to Market Standards: A Rev...
In "The Third Pillar," former IMF Chief Economist Raghuram Rajan argues that society rests on three essential pillars: the state, markets, and community. When these fall out of balance, the...
Elevating Government to Market Standards: A Rev...
In "The Third Pillar," former IMF Chief Economist Raghuram Rajan argues that society rests on three essential pillars: the state, markets, and community. When these fall out of balance, the...
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The Grab: Why Every Water Operator Should Watch This Documentary
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The Water Paradox: When Mismanagement Matters More Than Scarcity
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Connecting leadership insights from "The Unseen Leader" to water utility performance challenges.
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From Surgery to Water Systems: How the Checklist Manifesto Transforms Utility Performance
When Dr. Atul Gawande introduced the surgical checklist t...
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Elevating Government to Market Standards: A Review of "The Third Pillar"
In "The Third Pillar," former IMF Chief Economist Raghura...
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Beyond Operational Data: Peter Drucker's Strategic Information Framework for Water Utility Leadership
How water utilities can transform from data-rich but insi...
2025/07/28
Water Mismanagement in Agriculture: a Case Study of Greece. Starting with “how” and "why"
In northwestern Greece lies a contradiction that defies l...
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Novel Water Quality Index Reveals Guanzhong Basin Insights
In the vast and ecologically critical Guanzhong Basin of ...
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Water industry skills crisis intensifies as ‘perfect storm’ looms for AMP8, recruitment firm warns
The water industry is facing a perfect storm of intensify...
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Flowing forward: Emerging opportunities in the global water sector
The global landscape of water innovation reveals an inter...
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One Water, Many Solutions
Scientists and stakeholders must engage in broad collabor...
2025/04/29
Highly critical NAO report warns regulators have failed to deliver trusted and resilient water sector
The National Audit Office (NAO) has today published a hig...
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A Mission-Oriented Approach to Governing Our Global Water Challenges
Authored by Mariana Mazzucato and Luca Kühn von Burgsdorff
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New: The Geography of Future Water Challenges
The ‘Geography of Future Water Challenges’, a new book on...
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