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Sylmar Co-Founder on Water Quality Products Videocast Episode #29: Workforce transitions and Business Succession Planning
In this episode of Checking In: A Series With WQP, WQP Managing Editor Lauren Del Ciello checks in with Michael Warady, president for Sylmar Group. The conversation covers workforce...
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Sylmar Group CEO Peter Brooks Writes on The Hidden Workforce Transition Underway
As water system owners contemplate retirement, they should also ponder the fate of their businesses and the options available for the transition of assets. We are in the middle of...
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The Greatest Water Transfer in History
Our country is currently in the midst of the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind – not in 10 or 20 years – but today. Much has been written about the Silver...
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Sylmar Group President Michael Warady on Scaling Up! H2O Podcast Discussing Workforce Transition in the Water Treatment Industry
https://scalinguph2o.com/2020/12/18/173-the-one-with-the-exit-plan/ Have you lost sleep wondering what will happen to your water treatment business when it is time for you to retire?...
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Different Flavors for Different Uses: A One Water Framework for American Infrastructure
With drought in the southwest, flooding in the southeast and Midwest, and climate change related disasters threatening the east coast, America’s water supply today feels uncertain,...
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The Next Frontier: Digitization of US Water and Wastewater Infrastructure
When we think about how to design, build, and operate the next generation of more resilient United States’ water infrastructure, one of the key opportunities, that will differentiate...
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The Next Bacterial Concern: Legionella and Premise Plumbing
Life in 2020 has been upended by a series of turbulent events – most notably the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread social protests spreading across America – leading to widespread...
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COVID-19, Epidemiology, and the Wastewater Industry
Over the last several months, the rise and spread of COVID-19 has simultaneously overrun health care systems, taken lives, and shut down the world’s most robust national economies....
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Death, Taxes & Natural Monopolies
Every middle school teacher in America has stood in front of a group of students and delivered the old Benjamin Franklin adage that “the only things guaranteed in life are death...
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The Great Kansas Aqueduct: Solution or Folly from a Bygone Era?
The United States has long been known as a country willing to take gigantic risks in order to build innovative infrastructure for future generations. The Transcontinental Railroad...
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Op-Ed: L.A.’s stormwater is so filthy it’s illegal. Measure W would clean it up
When rain comes to Los Angeles, a certain kind of relief sets in. The land springs to life. The dust and grit and oil slick, accumulated over a summer of dry weather, gets washed...
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The Great Midwestern Overdraft
The last 10 years have given rise to considerable consternation as to future water availability in the Western and Midwestern United States. Due to climate change as well as cyclical...
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Demography is Destiny: The Looming Wave Of Retirements In The Water And Wastewater Industry
It’s a foregone conclusion that operators are on their way out at utilities across the country, yet the workload remains and could even intensify. When it comes to preserving talent,...
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A Distributed Water Revolution
It is a common missive in today’s water industry that we have let our water infrastructure decay to a point of imminent failure. Nearly every article in industry magazines today...
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Water Incubators & The Entrepreneurial Valley of Death
The water industry has long been considered one of the least innovative, most lethargic industries in the world. The reasons given for this particular reputation vary based upon...
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Op-Ed: The ludicrous plan to pump Mojave water to L.A.
In 1992, prospectors in Los Angeles hatched an idea for a new water supply that was improbable and speculative, even by Southern California standards. Far off in the Mojave Desert,...
