This week, Melissa Meeker, CEO of The Water Tower, joins Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg to talk about her 25 years of experience in water resources management.
Plus hear about:
How Mellissa previously served as the CEO of The Water Research Foundation, helping it to merge with two other associations, as well as serving as the executive director of the South Florida Water Management District
The latest updates on The Water Tower and the “living laboratory”
How Melissa's journey led her to become the CEO to help establish and open The Water Tower
The potential of franchising the model from Gwinett County across North America but also international partnerships in Spain and even Australia
The coming “silver tsunami” – a term used to describe the potential skills gap, resulting from highly experienced water operators and engineers that are due to retire soon.
And Will and Tom finish by asking Melissa if she could go back in time and give her 17-year-old self advice, what would it be? Thankfully, she didn’t say it would be to decline an invitation to be on this podcast!
And much, much more! We hope you enjoy the episode!
Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.
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.
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