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Hello,
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03 May 2016
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Last week took me to GWI’s Global Water Summit in the UAE, then to Serbia for a User Design Workshop and finally the United Kingdom for WRC’s annual Innovation day.
The urgency and pace was palpable. Ten minute roundtables with industry leaders, real time case studies where attendees present the analysis. The velocity is faster and faster challenging us all to scale our learning more urgently than ever.
I can not possibly summarize all the insights revealed at these forums, just the sheer size of GWI’s 2017 Global Market Report at four volumes says it all. We are now in a $720 billion dollar sector with healthy prognosis for growth and complex linkages.
There is, however, one much larger, and stronger common thread - a very personal and human need to create shared value in the water sector. That is what motivates me to get up and work hard each and every day. We all have an important part to play, every bit of knowledge sharing helps.
Trudi Schifter
Founder & CEO
AquaSPE AG
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