GM/CEO George Hawkins recently appeared on the Diane Rehm Show and the Kojo Nnamdi Show to discuss the Flint water crisis, the state of drinking water in America and the cost to repair the US’s water infrastructure. Ed. Diane Rehm Show – “Beyond Flint: The Safety Of America’s Tap Water” Kojo Nnamdi Show – “The
I’ve written at length on this blog about many of the innovative, cutting edge projects underway at DC Water. But, at the end of the day, our success as an enterprise still depends on us doing the fundamentals – taking care of our customers and providing them with exceptional service. That’s why this photo warmed
On a sunny July day at a construction site near the Washington Nationals’ ballpark, DC Water and our contractors began raising Lady Bird from a 100-foot-deep shaft. Lady Bird is the name of the massive 1,323 ton tunnel boring machine that built a 4.5 mile long tunnel underneath the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers as part
People often ask me what are the biggest challenge facing water utilities. My answer is a combination of five related issues – the “fist” that is coming at us. We deliver an essential service–to every living organism and every working person in every place we deliver the service, which is everywhere. This by itself is
http://traffic.libsyn.com/freshwatertalk/tft_Ep8_Hawkins.mp3 Editor’s Note: In a departure from George’s usual blog format, we’ve embedded a podcast that George did with the Freshwater Trust. This following was taken from their blog: A summa cum laude graduate from Princeton. A cum laude graduate from Harvard Law. A senior leader with the Environmental Protection Agency. An advisor to
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