Helping Santa Monica become water self sufficient with Sunny Wang | S5 Ep.2

This week on #TheStream, Will and Tom are joined by the incredible Sunny Wang, Water Resources Manager at City of Santa Monica. 

Sunny talks about his journey from being a private consultant, working in the UK and being admittedly amused by the imperial-metric measurement mix, to taking up the role in Santa Monica.

Since then he’s been involved in one of the most progressive projects, with the city set out to be “water self-sufficient” by 2023 using the One Water approach. 

Plus hear about:

• The strategy to reduce the reliance on external water supplies, due to the increased combined threat of natural disasters and climate change
• The need to communicate complex water treatment developments to the public, and how he has learned to articulate the water sector to his six-year-old back home!
• Sunny's role as an adjunct facility at the University of Southern California, teaching civil and environmental engineering

And listen to why Sunny says when it comes to water infrastructure, you can’t afford to get it wrong... 

All this and more! 

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Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

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And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.