WaterDialogue.com
A forum to discuss, share and report today's timeliest water issues.
To confront today’s most vexing water issues, communication and sharing among diverse groups of experts and stakeholders is vital. Black & Veatch created WaterDialogue.com to provide a dynamic forum to report and share information, feedback and experience from some of the water industry’s most accomplished leaders. These roundtable events provide a springboard for productive sharing and discussion.

Current Topic: Leadership and Economic Pressures

This series, which began in 2010 and continues in 2011, focuses on Economic Pressures: How are we adapting and leading in difficult times? This series of dialogues is focused on the complexities of meeting expectations and demands in a tough economic climate.Water industry leaders are facing a wide range of “water pressures” from customers, local policy makers and regulators. Unprecedented economic factors and financial struggles have challenged all of us to follow paths we’ve never followed before – and to blaze new trails for others.

How are you adapting and leading in these difficult times? This year’s forums at major water and wastewater industry events promise stimulating roundtable discussions about how to overcome the hurdles and capitalize on the opportunities this challenging economy presents to us.

Past Topic: Potential Barriers to Water Reuse

From October 2009 through June 2010, Black & Veatch conducted a series of Roundtable discussions around the globe that brought together about 75 government officials; municipal and private water/wastewater agency leaders; financial advisers; suppliers; non-profit agency representatives; manufacturers of food, pharmaceuticals and chemicals; trade association leaders and academics.

During this series, the overall goal was to review the potential barriers to water reuse and to explore the solutions and processes needed to overcome them. Such focused dialogues allowed Black & Veatch to delve deeper into these timely, critical issues and to suggest opportunities for moving reuse forward in the water/wastewater industry.