S8E7 - Why do we have so many Good Reasons to make Wrong Water Decisions? | (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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with 🎙️ Gonzalo Delacámara, Consultant on Natural Resources Economics for the United Nations and Water Policy Advisor for the OECD, the European Commission, and the World Bank

💧 Gonzalo is also Director of the Center for Water & Climate Adaptation at IE University, aiming to reinvent education and train the people who will change the World tomorrow.

What we covered:

🔗 How "Water" doesn't stop at the water sector itself but is heavily interlinked with the World around it and how "Water People" have a hard time figuring this out

☵ How nobody seeks Water in the end, but rather the benefits Water provides

👴 How the World's water institutions are not catered to the era we live in and how this has consequences

💵 How we benefit from nature's services and how those can be assessed in economic terms

♻️ How water circularity doesn't exist in isolation, and how the World needs to become circular first

🔖 How even if Water doesn't have a price, it always has a cost - and how we shall better account for that

📅 How getting our s*** together for 2050 will require breaking it down into digestible pieces

🤌 How the largest water challenges may well happen outside of the Water Sector and how to adapt to this new realm

🤖 Water trading, water governance, new technologies, planning for a World that doesn't exist anymore, the agriculture-energy-water nexus, the roadmap to real sustainability... and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥

🔗 Send your warmest regards to Gonzalo on LinkedIn

➡️ Check out the entire article on how we make wrong water decisions, including an infographic and a full transcript on the (don't) Waste Water website!

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On the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast, I strive to make the Water Industry easy to understand for everyone, starting with water professionals, executives, and investors. Hence, he opens the microphone to seasoned, inspirational water experts to discuss their field of excellence.

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