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Episode 1: Water resiliency at the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

Episode 1: Water resiliency at the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

Update: 2020-07-19
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Journalist and New York Times best-selling author Charles Fishman interviews Ghassan Korban, executive director of the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO), to discuss the challenges of modernizing an aging 4-in-1 utility system during demanding times.

Plus a bonus track.

Get a glimpse of a day in the life of Danny Brammer, a front-line water dispatcher at the Water Division of the Imperial Irrigation District during COVID-19 whose job is helping oversee the delivery of 3 billion gallons of water a day to one of the most productive agricultural regions in the United States. 

For further reading:

A profile of Ghassan Korban:
 
The famous logo of the SWBNO
 
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Episode 1: Water resiliency at the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

Episode 1: Water resiliency at the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

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