with ️ Josiah Cox, founder and president of Central States Water Resources  Central States Water Resources transforms how water utilities work by acquiring small, often non-compliant systems and then using expertise, technology, and innovation to quickly assess and turn them into reliable infrastructure. What we covered: What Utility Consolidation actually is and how it can reshape the destiny of small communities  How the US Water and Wastewater scene is still highly fragmented and the consequences of this fragmentation, especially on the lower end of the infrastructure chain  3️⃣ The regulatory, financial, and technical burdens of consolidating water systems and how to overcome them  ️ How with 800 M&A moves and 80 in 2021 alone, Central States Water Resources is 1% through its consolidation mission  ⚖️ How CSWR aims to build the appropriate scale between radically decentralized systems and large-scale metropolitan water infrastructure in a distributed fashion  Increased regulations and their consequences, PFAS, Bottled Water, Funding, Solving complex issues with proven technology… and much more! … and of course, we concluded with the           ➡️ Send your warm regards to Josiah on LinkedIn.  ➡️ Check Central States Water Resource's website   ➡️ A big THANK YOU to Sciens Water for enabling this episode! ➡️ Check out the entire article on consolidation in US Water Utilities, including teasers and a full transcript on the (don't) Waste Water website!Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.