A new water anthology, “Damned If We Don't! Ideas for Accelerating Change Around Water,” has just been released for preorder this week by The Water Innovation Project. The book is focused on water-related issues and personal stories from more than 25 different authors who represent a variety of ideas around better managing the industry's relationship with water.
“With topics that range from climate change to conservation to smart grid enhancements and water innovation, this book is a collection of viewpoints that encourage, inspire and invoke a drive to take action,” said Christopher Peacock, founder of the Water Innovation Project and publisher of the book. “Water professionals need to see how collaboration and information sharing are the smartest ways that we can save, strengthen and rebuild our fractured water sector.”
Authors include water experts like Bob Sandford, EPCOR chair of the Canadian Partnership Initiative in support of the United Nations “Water for Life” Decade; Karen Kun, executive director of Toronto-based Waterlution; Dave McGimpsey, a Denver-based energy lawyer who has represented water utilities for more than 15 years; and Renee M. Kayal, program director of education and training for the Water Environment Federation.
This book, as Peacock noted, is about taking action. But it is actually taking action itself in its own way.
“For every preordered copy of 'Damned If We Don't', half of the proceeds will be donated to Water For People, a Denver-based charity that focuses on water quality and sanitation throughout the world,” he stated. “So preordering this book is not just a way to inspire readers to take action, but every donation will be put to good use before a reader looks at the first page.”
The book includes personal anecdotes as well as thought-provoking pieces that could change the industry itself, and will be available for download on the Amazon Kindle platform in addition to a paperback version in October.
“Along with a variety of experts in this anthology, such as utility managers, entrepreneurs, policy makers and professors, it was necessary that they have been doing something extraordinary with their use, leadership or research as it pertains to water,” explained Peacock. “This book can help us learn to accelerate change in our behaviors around, management of and relationship to water... if we don’t, we may indeed be damned.”
Source: The Water Innovation Project
