Living With Water: Insights Into Impact and Resilience
Engineering Influence from ACEC

Living With Water: Insights Into Impact and Resilience

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 18, 202639 min
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Water infrastructure is the backbone of how communities survive and thrive in the face of a changing climate. In this episode, we sit down with Walter P Moore to explore what it really takes to build resilient water systems, from aging infrastructure challenges to forward-looking engineering solutions. We dig into: 💧 The state of water infrastructure across the country 🌊 Engineering strategies for resilience and long-term impact 🏗️ How firms like Walter P Moore are shaping the future of water management Tune in for a conversation about the systems that keep our comm...

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Roughly 4 billion people, and that's about half the world's population, live under highly stressed water conditions at least one month out of every year. And yet, in many of those same places, when the rain finally does come, it comes too hard, too fast, and floods the very communities that were rationing water weeks earlier.

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That paradox, too little, then too much, sometimes both at once, is at the center of today's conversation. I'm very pleased to be joined by the team at Walter P. Moore, whose new stewardship report Living with Water looks at engineering not as a way to control water, but as a way

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to steward it, designing systems that work with water's natural behavior instead of fighting against it. Very pleased to have this team here today because it's something that is an important topic that the world is wrestling with.

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