with ?️ Upmanu Lall - Director of the Columbia Water Center  
? The Columbia Water Center aims to creatively tackle water challenges of a rapidly changing world where water and climate interact with food, energy, ecosystems, and urbanization.

What we covered:

?? How many of the water challenges we face fly under the radar in places where no one actually expects them - and what to do about it 
?️ How centralized infrastructure may not be future-proof and how decentralized and distributed systems rapidly take over 
?? How that takeover of decentralized water treatments already induced a kind of post-utility era in places like India 
? What the rapid evolution of the Amazon Water Filter segment tells about the expectations of end-users and the reactivity of some sections of the Water Industry 
? How the rethink goes beyond under the sink water filter to also address flood mitigation, engineering approaches, and risk management 
?? How the best example for a successful roll-out of new water management approaches may well come from China 
? The Columbia Water Center and its missions, disrupting century-old approaches, reinventing water utilities, leveraging digitization… and much more!
? … and of course, we concluded with the ????? ???? ????????? ?   
      
➡️ Send your warm regards to Upmanu on LinkedIn. 
➡️ Check Columbia Water Center's website 
➡️ A big THANK YOU to Sciens Water for enabling this episode!
➡️ Check out the entire article on how radical decentralization may take over centralized water infrastructure, including teasers and a full transcript on the (don't) Waste Water website!