S7E9 - How to Make Water more Attractive than the Apple and Samsungs of this World - a podcast by Antoine Walter

with 🎙️ Errick Simmons - Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi, and co-chair of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative.

💧 The Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative works to improve the river's water quality, restore its habitat, coordinate the state's efforts, create sustainable economies around the basin, and celebrate the river's culture and history.

What we covered:

🧠 How to rethink water we need to rethink the World - what Errick has been contributing to at the last COP 26 

🍀 How managing a river basin involves the entire Social, Environmental, and Governance spectrum of activities 

👦🏽 How finding a way to attract and involve youth is a decisive factor in guaranteeing our water systems' resilience in the coming decades 

👴🏽 How the retiring workforce also leaves with a treasure of knowledge that needs to be transferred and safeguarded, and how it may require thinking laterally 

🌊 How large-scale natural events and catastrophes impact a river basin and what can be done to preserve communities and perform pre-disaster mitigation 

🤝 How the recent events in Jacksonville, Mississippi, highlight the need to reinforce solidarity and collaboration between neighbors and co-citizens of watersheds. 

💪 How private and public forces should join their efforts to benefit from the best of two worlds - especially in presence of high social challenges 

💻 How solutions from the past won't be solutions for the future, what needs to change, and what role digitization will play in this 

🏫 How solving the water riddle probably starts with water education and which role universities, scholarships, and grants will play in this 

🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏾 How diversity is an everyday battle, and how it is the best way to ensure we tap into our community's full potential 

💚 Partnerships, water becoming the "cool kid on the block," water management as an integral part of environmental protection... and much more!

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

      

➡️ Send your warm regards to Errick on Twitter  

➡️ Check the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative's website 

➡️ Check out the full story on how to overcome the silver wave by turning water sexy on the (don't) Waste Water website! 

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