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municipal employees that we train to operate and maintain the systems. Their scope of work includes water resources management, monitoring and evaluation, rate setting/collection, and asset management. We have also trained craft workers to build and manage their water systems and toilets. Additionally, our school and community hygiene programs for behavior change are very successful. We have trained sanitation entrepreneurs and helped them start their businesses selling toilet/septic systems, pit emptying services, decentralized fecal sludge treatment plants, and sludge repurposing for biofuels and fertilizers. We also have developed water and sanitation product lines for microfinance lenders and community cooperatives for water and sanitation credit to build water systems and toilets. Some of these are self-funded by the communities through revenue collection. THE CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS GN: What are the greatest challenges in the water industry? Allen: To reach the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal #6(SDG6) we need national leadership to prioritize water and sanitation, governance, regulation, supply chain development, and investment in infrastructure and institution building (without corruption). GN: What do you think the government, private companies and NGO of each country need to do to get rid of these? Allen: To reach SDG 6 we need to achieve greater collaboration between governments (those providing aid and those needing aid), private industry, and NGOs. Development of country-wide plans with bottoms-up bankable investment plans to meet SDG 6 is already underway (we are helping Bolivia, Rwanda, and Uganda) where national leaders have prioritized water and sanitation. All 193 signatory countries of the SDGs need to do this to achieve SDG 6 globally. Today between national governments, aid, private industry, and philanthropy the world invests $10B per year. So we need to step it up to get to the $50B per year. In the scale of the global economy, this is not a large number – we just need to make clean water and sanitation a priority. We need to raise awareness and educate to get to this level of funding. And the business case is there – we know there is a 5:1 return! GN: How do we provide water accessibility to more than 7 billion people? Allen: We need to develop infrastructure in each country, village by village, and city by city. Just like we did in the US and other nations around the world. We have done this before, and we know how to do it. It isn’t easy and needs all the items above to happen! ADVICE TO THE YOUNG ENGINEERS GN: Please give advice and words of wisdom about the clean water campaign to our young global audience. What would you like to tell to the millennials? Any inspiring words that you can share? Allen: Water is one of the most rewarding fields - challenging for its technical and societal aspects. Development work is infrastructure and social engineering – the perfect combination! Imagine you have an orchestra of community voices, government, business, and technology. When they make music together, it is amazing!! This truly is a career for those that want to build a better world and improve the quality of life, especially for women and children. Plus, in this field, you can help clean up the environment by treating human waste appropriately for reuse and resource recovery. By doing this, we will leave the earth in better shape for our children and future generations. 56 SEPTEMBER <strong>2016</strong> Clean Water Technologies
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