“水是一种更紧缺的资源，需求不断增加，治理不力，气候变化使一切变得更糟”。观看我们与 Water Foundry 的创始人兼首席执行官William Sarni进行的交谈，以了解他关于此问题和其他问题的看法，以及他关于共同努力解决水危机的愿景。
”如果水问题得到解决，就可以解决许多其他相关问题，例如平等问题
Interview Transcription
ACTIONABLE INFORMATION
I am a big fan, supporter, of democratizing access to data and actionable information. Public policy changes very slowly, but a way to get the public policy to change is to increase awareness of the issues with consumers and customers, and other stakeholders and give them data and information that they can use to make better decisions and push for public policy change.
A TWO-WAY RELATIONSHIP
I think historically the water utility sector has had a one-way relationship with customers and consumers.
That’s changed again through technology where you can have an app that engages the utility in a two-way dialogue, on how much you are using compared to your neighbors, information on potential leaks… things like that.
I think a good example is what has happened in Flint-Michigan in the U.S., where a city was drinking lead-contaminated water from the tap and really didn’t know about it for relatively a long period of time.
THE PATH TO DIGITALIZATION
So how do you build a culture and a strategy around supporting those members of your workforce or your community, in understanding the value and having the tools and the freedom to experiment and adopt these technologies?
Another piece of the puzzle is not necessarily building last century technology; so, the ability to leapfrog to 21st-century technology.
So, being more creative and thinking more about what are the hybrid solutions that are out there that were not available to us a short period of time ago.
And I think there is another piece of the puzzle which is: Who pays for the expensive infrastructure?
NO BETTER SHORTAGE OF ADVANCE
Well, the status quo is killing us.
Water is a finer resource, increasingly in demand, poorly governed and climate change makes it all worse rather. What that means is that extreme weather events; flooding, increased scarcity, sea-level rise… which is more than just rising sea level, it’s saltwater intrusion if you are a city like Miami that is more prone to flooding, but also now has saltwater intrusion into their aquifers. There is no shortage of advance that we are now challenged by.
SOLVING WASH
Even the “wash your hands” during the pandemic. Solve water and you solve a number of other related issues like, you know, equity issues. Lack of access to safe drinking water impacts women and children disproportionally; it impacts disadvantaged economically distressed communities more than others.
OUR GLUE
I also view water as the glue in humanity. It is something that we should all rally around because it is one of the things that we have in common: that need for water and that connection to water.
Yes, we can solve water… so, let’s do it.
