Water Foresight Podcast
Examining the future of water through the lens of strategic foresight--anticipating, framing, and shaping your preferred future.
Water Foresight Podcast
Next-Generation Environmental Compliance
We talk with Cynthia Giles about why environmental legal requirements may underperform and how a smarter future design—monitoring, e-reporting, and transparency—can make water compliance the default. The conversation moves from pathogens and “sampling out” to climate-driven adaptation and a future reimagined federal–state data relationship. Cynthia offers thoughts on:
• the gap between public health goals and actual outcomes
• beliefs about widespread compliance and enforcement’s primacy
• how rule design may create incentives to evade or delay
• pathogen risks in drinking water and “sampling out”
• the cost of weak monitoring and reporting penalties
• continuous monitoring as behavior change, not just detection
• electronic reporting and shared, real-time data access
• plain-language transparency that answers “is it safe”
• enforcement as a platform for innovation and SEPs
• federalism retooled for open data and state innovation
Cynthia's book is available free at nextgencompliance.org
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