COVID-19 has destroyed the water industry’s economic model (see COVID-19 Will Change the Water Industry, a Trilogy: The Industry’s Economic Model Is Dead) and provides a natural experiment of the impact of economic activity on the environment requiring an enhanced role for improved science (see COVID-19 Will Change the Water Industry, a Trilogy: Enhanced Role for Improved Science). What does all this mean for planning and decision-making?
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COVID-19 Will Change the Water Industry, a Trilogy: The Industry’s Economic Model Is Dead
The COVID-19 pandemic is (hopefully) once in a lifetime disrupter of our lives. The public health establishment has been shattered and is being rebuilt on the fly. The economy is in shambles. We are learning about supply chains and interconnectedness of economic activity. Who is immune? No one.
Hydrowonk’s COVID-19 trilogy shares reflections on the pandemic’s implications for the water industry’s historic economic model, the role of science, and planning. I confess that very few of these ideas were constantly on my mind until recently, although some were simmering.