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welcome to Scaling UP! h2o the podcast
for the water treatment industry hello
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everybody
Trace Blackmore here your host for
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Scaling UP! h2o the podcast where we’re
Scaling UP! on knowledge so you don’t
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Scaling UP! your systems folks how are you
today thank you so much for listening to
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Scaling UP! h2o thank you so much for
telling people about Scaling UP! h2o I
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love it when more people are added to
the Scaling UP! nation and you find folks
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of the nation are helping me do that
each and every day thank you for that we
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are in 57 countries around the world I
can’t tell you how humbled I am to that
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number that my voice here in Atlanta
Georgia is reaching people all over the
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world and of course we all have the same
things in common because we are all
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water treaters so how does that make you
feel the next time that you feel like
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you’re alone the next time you come
across a water treatment issue just
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think there is somebody just like you
dealing with that similar issue in
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another part of the world folks we are
all water treaters we are the Scaling UP!
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nation we are water treaters uniting and
we together are making the water
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treatment industry better of course we
would not have a job if it were not for
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water water the most incredible
substance on the planet Earth no matter
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what country you’re listening to Scaling UP! h2o in you need water to live and
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folks the simple fact is we all do not
have equal access to water when it comes
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to our life needs there are many people
on the planet that just don’t have clean
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drinking water and I know we don’t think
about that a lot because we turn the
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faucet
and plenty of water is coming out and we
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use water in our day-to-day jobs folks
that is a privilege and not everybody
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has it our guest today is carolyn moob
of pure water for the world and folks I
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first learned of pure water for the
world from an AWT convention that I went
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to and pure water of the world was the
group that the AWT the association of
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water technologies has chosen to support
and I knew nothing about them and the
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first thing that I thought was this has
nothing to do with industrial water
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treatment so why are we getting involved
with this well when I started listening
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to their story and what they do in
certain parts of the world with things
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that we take for granted each and every
day well folks I started listening and I
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had that opportunity because I asked and
somebody like Carolyn explained their
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story to me so you’re gonna get that
opportunity today to hear what pure
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water of the world actually does and why
they have partnered with the association
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of Water Technologies and I’m hoping by
the end of this interview you’re gonna
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change your perspective that water is
just something that we take for granted
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that water is a gift that we need to
make sure that everybody on this planet
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has access to so I hope you enjoy my
interview with Carolyn mute my lab
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partner today is carolyn moob of pure
water for the world how are you Carolyn
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I am wonderful today thank you trace
well I want to thank you for coming on
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Scaling UP! h2o there are a lot of people
that met you last year are met people
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that work with you last year and this
year at the association of water
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technologies annual convention and Expo
but there are a lot of people out there
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that have questions about what pure
water for the world is and I’m hoping
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that that’s what we can clear up today I
hope so as well so let’s just start with
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that what is pure water for the world
pure water for the world is a non-profit
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Oregon
whose mission is to improve the life and
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health of children and families in
mostly primarily rural dispersed areas
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in developing countries through the
intervention of safe drinking water the
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installation in the building of toilets
and the all-important hygiene education
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I think the point where there’s the
linkage is that if you look at water as
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a flow as it flows down you know a river
that we’re dealing with water at
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different points that we all are part of
trying to solve a water solution the
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members of AWT have obviously at a more
technical more advanced level but we’re
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at we’re really starting at the
beginning dealing with people who have
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water it’s contaminated and they get
sick and in some cases die what AWT
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members if you go further down the flow
is they’re much more technical but we’re
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all part of really the same the same
chain and that we are trying to find
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solutions water solutions that in our
case improve the lives of children and
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their families and that AWT members are
trying to improve the profitability of
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industries through the intervention of a
complex water filtration system or
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through some other application I think
that’s very well said you know water is
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life and if we don’t treat that as the
valuable commodity that it is we are not
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going to have life on this planet so
whether the AWT member the industrial
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water treater is dealing with it from a
process standpoint to you know third
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world countries as you mentioned where
you know we all need water to live we’re
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all dealing with water so the
partnership absolutely makes sense now
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I’m curious how did pure water for the
world and AWT
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come to find themselves as partners my
understanding is so may been over three
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years ago there was a conversation
within a WT they were having a strategic
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planning session and they say we know
they said we’re an association that
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deals with water why don’t we find a
charity partner and at that point then
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Heidi Zimmerman the executive director
and her staff and there was so there was
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a process where they vetted they did
research and then they vetted a certain
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number of organizations and I think why
we were selected from all the many
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different nonprofit players in this
sector is that pure water is flexible we
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could tailor programs to fit the needs
of the members so there would be easier
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entry points into involvement in our
programs and involvement what we do and
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I think that they liked that we were
attuned to their needs as opposed to
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just our needs well let me ask the other
side of that how do you feel a WT has
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been as far as a partner oh I think they
it’s been a wonderful partnership Heidi
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and then to the pure water staff that
really nurture those relationships I
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think it’s been very beneficial there’s
been business owners and employees of
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AWT members that have been either to
Haiti or to Honduras there’s an
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appreciation that you know so there’s
that that awareness then there is a WT
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members have helped us and we’ve had
some technical questions and we value
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that the relationship with AWT and work
hard to earn that impre mater that what
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we received about three years ago so
we’re very pleased with it Carolyn how
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how we talked about specifically what
pure water for the world does and how
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somebody listening in the Scaling UP!
nation can help
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pure waters work is like in any business
has really evolved over time initially
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it was started because it wasn’t
certainly a need for intervention of
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clean safe drinking water in rural
Central America medical doctor went down
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to El Salvador and saw that they could
keep going back here and after year and
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B treating the same problem waterborne
diseases so it was a Rotary Club member
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you went back at his Rotary Club
involved and we believe that the most
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marginalized people in Central America
are the rural dispersed people people
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that don’t live in what we think of a
small even a small village they’re very
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dispersed and we initially we gave them
the means of safe drinking water we work
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with people who have water it’s
contaminated so we use something what’s
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a generic term it is called household
water treatment which is we use a bio
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sand filter that goes into the home
people go to this shallow well or to
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their source of water a stream collect
the water and then pour it into the
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filter and then what we realized is as
we probably all have experiences we get
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something we think we really know how to
use it but it isn’t having the benefits
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that we wanted and so pure water over
the years has really grown and expanded
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our education program because we’re in
the business of changing habits we know
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the filter if they use it correctly the
water can meet World Health Organization
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standards but the water I care about is
the water people drink and so we do a
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lot of education and training so we do a
complete wash program in homes which in
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Honduras is toilets safe water hygiene
education we also focus on schools
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because we believe it’s a community
solution so the most vulnerable people
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in in this Cadiz commune
are the younger children children who
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are under the age of five so that’s why
we provided it the homes but if children
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go to school and they don’t have safe
drinking water they are to stay healthy
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you need to be drinking clean water safe
water all the time so we do
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comprehensive program hand washing
station gender-specific toilets for the
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schools because there is a strong link
between when girls if they don’t have a
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private place for cleanliness and for
personal hygiene when their period
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starts they tend to drop out of school
and girls who drop out of school start
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having children younger so we have a
very very comprehensive menstrual
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hygiene program in the schools we’ve
worked with the Ministry of Education in
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Honduras to try to change the curriculum
instead of asking teachers to add
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something else is to change some of the
curriculum like math like one bar so in
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one bar soap equals two bar soap so it’s
in corporate the hygiene messages are
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incorporated into the regular curriculum
all of this works only with the support
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of the community the community has to
want the solution there have to they
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have to be willing to put some money
into it as an investment they need to
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work into it and the families and the
teachers have to go to education it only
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works because the community wants wants
it and in both Haiti and Honduras where
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we work we have waiting lists for
communities and schools who have asked
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for help that’s what we do in a gonna
nutshell that’s amazing I mean we don’t
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think over here that a woman on her
menstrual cycle would drop out of school
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because of all the conveniences we have
there but just that thing and what you
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guys are doing and how you’re changing
an entire culture where she can stay in
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school and not not have children too
early so she can’t go to school I’m just
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so amazed by that I didn’t know that at
all well funny thing is and I’ll
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be brief on this the US offices in
Vermont and wheat where there’s myself
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and two other full-time employees and a
part-time person and so I had this idea
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that this is about four years ago we
needed to do a menstrual hygiene program
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so I let the Honduras staff know and I
couldn’t figure out what was taking so
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long
she’d seem to be easy and what they did
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in Honduras is they had focus groups
because they just couldn’t March into
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schools and say we’re gonna do a
menstrual hygiene program because the
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teachers and the parents would think
they were talking about sex so we had
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focus groups with boys and men and with
women and girls and talked about what we
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were trying to accomplish and all I
could think about is I could never in a
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million years imagine my father in the
sixties with going to talk to group of
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men about his wife and his two daughters
periods I know I don’t think would have
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ever happened yet in Honduras the men
didn’t know much about it and they were
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so appreciative of trying to understand
what goes on how about that you
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mentioned that originally doctor would
go over there and they were treating the
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same things over and over again that
were brought on by waterborne pathogens
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how many years have you guys been doing
this and then what have you seen as a
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result
well pure water when it was a Rotary
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Club project started with the
Brattleboro Vermont Rotary Club in the
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mid-1990s and pure water got launched so
say let’s say from 2002 now what we have
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found is that we work with health
clinics to find out what the rate of
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reported diarrhea cases are so a lot of
it at this point is anecdotal we know we
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do water quality testing of the source
water and of a filtered water and we
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know if the filters are working
correctly then the people were drinking
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safe drinking water so our we we talk to
the teachers to find out what school
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enrolment is the
hospital near Taurus Honduras we work
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with them we’re working with the health
clinics to see if they report a an
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improvement in health and we’re starting
to do just when you think you know I
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think this is it for the program what’s
wonderful about pure water is that we
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learn that we’re missing something so
how do we incorporate it so we when a
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community approaches us we do a needs
assessment we do a census of the homes
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and the number of children and the women
to men and what their water source is
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and we do it but we haven’t asked you
know we ask peripheral questions about
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the health but we are beginning to add
in another dimension for example of
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young children you take a measurement of
the circumference of their arm and then
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you go back over time and now you can
tell how the child is developing because
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if you look at water as a calorie and
you’re living in a rural dispersed area
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where your food may be limited because
of income or agriculture but you have so
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you have food but if you drink
contaminated water and you end up with
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diarrhea the nutrients that you consumed
in the food is not helping the body and
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so they’re children who are malnourished
can get beat there’s something called
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stunting where is their body they’re
their brain the bones don’t grow at the
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rate they should and even if a six or
seven you start drinking clean safe
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drinking water you can never recover
that what you lost in those early years
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so we’re hoping to you know through
going in and doing oops we’ve done poop
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specimens in the past where you checked
the fecal matter of family members for
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parasites and then you can go back in
and check it again so we’re going to
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start that up again so we have seen
success and the biggest success is that
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we have communities in the areas that we
work that come to us and say we’re
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willing to do whatever it takes to get
you to come to our community
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how about that now you mentioned there’s
a waiting list how do you decide where’s
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the next place you’re gonna go well
there’s several factors first is if we
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knew there was a health issue there was
a lot of dire real issues we would go
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back to that community that you know so
health trumps everything and then we may
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because this is really dispersed I mean
it can take up to four or five hours
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just to get there in the morning and so
staff has to spend the night so I mean
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this is really really rural in Honduras
and not quite as rural in Haiti but it
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could be logistics there may be three or
four communities in the same area that
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we would work in so help trumps it then
you have to look at some logistical
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issues and then everything being equal
the lowest thing would be you know first
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in the in the door but you know we don’t
want somebody that’s community that’s
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asked two years ago and just for no
reason go to somebody that just asked
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yesterday but health Trump’s at all for
myself it’s hard to visualize what
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somebody would actually do when they’re
on a trip working with you can we
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describe once we get into Honduras or
once we get into Haiti what happens then
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I think the first I’m trying to think
back to the first time I went and if you
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if people have not been to developing
countries I think that in some cases
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your your senses are so sort of
overloaded what you see in Honduras you
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see beauty and you see poverty Haiti
there’s some beauty there we work more
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you know closer you know to the
port-au-prince area but it’s still
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beautiful and then I think slowly over
time some of your preconceived ideas are
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sort of sort of checked and those are
the personal stories and everybody’s
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different
but what people will experience is I
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think the first thing is that because
their water professionals and they know
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the issues that they deal with daily and
their profession
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what they’re gonna realize if they go to
Haiti or Honduras is there’s challenges
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they’ve never thought of I think going
there you see that it’s different the
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challenges of working in these countries
particularly rural areas or something
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that we don’t don’t deal with so what
would people do to see that so they it’s
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a real immersion they see water in a
different light from how they see it
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professionally they will in some cases
process the sand that goes in the BIOS
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and filter they will also in Honduras
help build latrines a toilets at schools
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they’ll install filters they’ll be part
of a program where we once people have
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the filter for a while then there’s
another education session and then we
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give up some parasite medicine with the
people from the health clinic so it’s a
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total immersion people on trips or with
their contemporaries they also
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experience you go into people’s homes
you get a sense of what life is like and
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you just realize that how different it
is that the water treatments that each
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of us do I mean AWT members in the
industrial sense in pure water on the
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basic health love you know it looks
different will see that the treatments
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and what needs to be done but you see
you know they’ll see they’ll actually
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see an experience that flow of water as
I mentioned earlier at the beginning end
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and they really will understand that
their challenges I mean for example you
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know you have some political unrest so
you’ve got it you know and it’s safe but
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you deal with that if you’re in Haiti at
a certain time if it rains you have to
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deal with roads are impassable or you
see cows blocking your way and you have
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to wait or somebody’s afraid of voodoo
on the staff and you have to sort of
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help them so there are a lot of
challenges and it’s different what what
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we do is different how they live is
different and that’s not a value is just
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different and I think it gains an
appreciation for the dignity of the
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Haitians and the Honduran sand I think
they will see that
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to me that’s the most important thing
what are some of the comments that
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people have made based on going and
working with you and coming back and now
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having that new perspective well mark
the former president of AWT said that it
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was very eye-opening for him because he
sought challenges that he never thought
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of until he went to Haiti other
experiences that other quotes I’ve seen
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and this is not an AW team member but uh
there were three girls from Burlington
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Vermont that went down High School girls
that went down to Haiti and they went to
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City Soleil and they met with a former
country director who still won’t meet
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with pure water and he said to the girls
what do you been to city lake Soleil
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what are you gonna do about it and one
of the high school students Hannah
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Fisher said I didn’t know I was supposed
to do anything and these girls went home
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and raised $90,000 Wow
I think it and I think it’s like an
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onion you know you peel as many layers
and people it changes them but some it
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may change dramatically and other people
just may be more an awareness it’s where
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they are in their life stories of saying
that it was a life altering experience
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that they really made them want to
reflect on their own life and what we
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have versus what they have and I think
that those personal experiences are
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probably the most important and the most
meaningful because they’ll last for as
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long as you you know these experiences
we have wonderful quotes and people that
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go back year after year to these
countries and some people get hurt
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hooked on Haiti or Honduras so if people
can go if it’s with pure water or
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somebody else I think that going on a
trip some people call it a mission trip
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or a work trip it’s really an
eye-opening experience so let’s talk
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about that there’s a listener out there
and they want to work with you they want
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to go on one of these trips how do they
do that
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we have an amazing website at pure water
for the world org and all they have to
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do is go on that and I can give my phone
number afterwards but and then just
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click at info at send an email Damon
gets it Jamin Gilder is the program
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manager for pure water she also manages
the relationship with a WT and she will
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connect you with a trip if once going
she’s willing to try to put together a
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team of just a WT members she and
Natalie prep some of your listeners may
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have met both of them at in Orlando or
Grand Rapids so we are here to help
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customize what would work what is
practical what would work for any of the
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listeners out there from going on a trip
to saying you know how can I get
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involved and certainly one is advocacy
just learning about the global water
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problem helps increase awareness its
increasing awareness about what pure
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water does specifically a lot of fun
things to do to encourage employees to
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get engaged and do a water walk but the
first point of entry is go the website
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go to info at pure water for the world
org right to Jamin and she will get back
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to you and find out what your needs are
and try to match your needs with what
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pure water is doing I’ll make sure to
have all of that information on my show
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notes page so nobody has to take their
hands off the wheel to write any of that
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down oh please absolutely let me ask you
what’s the one thing that you want the
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Scaling UP! nation to know about pure
water for the world I think I said in
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the beginning and maybe say it a
different way is for Scaling UP! nation
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even though you may think where’s the
linkage between industrial water and
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safe drinking water you know we’re sort
of in the same industry but doing diff
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things think we have similar goals in
improving the water that whatever your
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treatment for whatever process is ours
is treating water for help there may be
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treating water to filter the best root
beer and the other thing I would like
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people to know is that even the smallest
of contributions can make a difference
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for as little as $25 a child can have
safe clean drinking water for $300 a
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family could have safe drinking water
and for 4,000 a whole school could have
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toilets and hand-washing stations and
clean water and hygiene education that
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any amount makes a difference and I
realize the businesses are large and
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small with a WT and I think that’s
that’s really what I want to leave with
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because if you change a difference in
one child’s life that’s one child whose
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life has been changed and that is pretty
direct well I think what you guys do is
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pretty terrific and I want to thank you
for coming on Scaling UP! h2o and sharing
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it with the Scaling UP! nation well I
thank you for this opportunity and I
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look forward to more many more
productive years with AWT
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I’m willing to bet that you are going to
think about water differently now you
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have heard me say on so many of these
podcasts that I believe that water
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treatment was the original green
industry we were saving water before
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anybody told us to save water that’s
just part of our job well now we realize
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what a valuable resource water is and
folks when I go to building meetings
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where they are trying to get a building
LEED certified they spend hours talking
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about toilets and shower heads and
faucets and we can save so much more
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just by making some very simple
adjustments with our programs providing
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we understand our programs well enough
to make sure we’re not creating any
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issues by doing that but we have such an
opportunity as industrial water treaters
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to save such a huge amount of water and
whether your goal is to save water so we
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can be used someplace else or your goal
is to save that customer money the
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bottom line is is that we are saving
water we’re making the equipment cheaper
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to run we’re making it so water is
available someplace else and now after
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this interview you’re thinking that not
everybody has the same access to water
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now I know a few of the AWT members that
have gone down on trips and produced
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some of the stations some of the filters
that Carolyn spoke about so if you’re
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interested in doing that you can go to
pure water for the world org and they’ve
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got all of that information now Carolyn
is trying to get me to go on one of
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these trips the idea was floated around
that perhaps we do a Scaling UP! trip
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that is so far from any planning please
if you have any questions about
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that I promise you I do not have any
answers for that but if you give Carolyn
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and her team a call and let her know
that you’re interested in that if we get
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enough people interested in it maybe we
can put that together with them I think
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that would just be an incredible service
that us water treaters could provide to
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people that definitely could use that
service again any questions you have go
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to pure water for the world org and you
will learn everything you need to know
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about their organization and if you want
to go to our show notes page will of
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course have all of that information and
you’ll see the show notes for today’s
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episode folks remember we are water
treaters we have such an opportunity not
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only to do our jobs but to make our jobs
change the world and I know that sounds
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just over-the-top but I tell you when
I’m in those meetings that I talked
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about earlier and we’re talking about
saving you know a tenth of a gallon of
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flush or a gallon of flush well folks
we’re talking about tens of thousands of
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gallons a day that we can save in their
industrial utility equipment so do not
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ever shortchange what it is that you do
because you can have a tremendous effect
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when it comes to saving this valuable
resource that we’re talking about which
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of course is water and then you can
actually get your hands involved in an
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organization where you’re bringing water
to people who desperately need it folks
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thanks so much for listening and I’ll
talk to you next week on Scaling UP! h2o