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Current Series: How are we adapting and leading in difficult times?

This series of Black & Veatch 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? Join us at one of the upcoming major water/wastewater industry events this year for some stimulating roundtable discussions about how to overcome the hurdles and capitalize on the opportunities this challenging economy presents to us.

Past Series: Overcoming 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.

The overall goals were 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.

Each roundtable was held at or during a major industry conference between October 2009 and June 2010:

  • Water Environment Federation’s Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC)
    12 October 2009, Orlando, Florida
  • Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies’ Water Climate Forum (WCF)
    28 January 2010, Washington, D.C.
  • Australian Water Association’s Ozwater’10 (Ozwater)
    8 March 2010, Brisbane, Australia
  • Global Water Intelligence’s Global Water Summit (GWS)
    26 April 2010, Paris, France
  • American Water Works Association’s Annual Conference & Exhibition 2010 (ACE)
    23 June 2010, Chicago, Illinois
  • Singapore International Water Week (SIWW)
    30 June 2010, Singapore