Alex Shannon, Senior Vice President and West Region Business Line Leader, provides a phenomenal interview focusing on valuing water, spending water infrastructure funds efficiently, and analyzing the issues from multiple perspectives: economics, OneWater, local politics, and more. Tune in for some of Alex’s great insights.
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- Alex’s transformation from economist to the water economist
- How Alex’s economics background meshes well with the water sector
- The benefits of dynamic economic modeling of capital improvement plans (CIPs) and master plans for water utilities
- How to maintain a dynamic CIP and master plan
- Alex’s thoughts on how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect dynamic CIPs and master plans
- The three major variable inputs for dynamic CIPs and master plans
- OneWater and the value proposition for water
- Why water quality is top of mind for Alex
- How water quality and OneWater approaches differ from large systems to small systems
- Alex’s thoughts on overcoming local politics to creatively solve water issues
- Where Alex has seen IIJA and IRA funds going to water infrastructure issues
- How Alex has seen water utilities overcome affordability challenges
- Alex’s thoughts on what’s in the future for water utility infrastructure
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