HydroPoint Data Systems, provider of the WeatherTRAK Smart Water Management solution, announced that Chris Spain, chief strategy officer, will be a panelist on MIT’s Enterprise Forum titled, “From Soft Drinks to Real Estate: How a Looming Water Crisis Affects Our World and How to Optimize the Business Opportunity.”
Held in Atlanta on Oct. 23, and in conjunction with Georgia Public Broadcasting, the business-focused panel will discuss how the impending water crisis will impact business and key industries along with new water conservation technologies and the business opportunities that water shortages may present.
Climate change has already turned chronically short fresh water supplies in places like the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa into dire emergencies and precipitated terrible resource conflicts. As the Southeastern U.S. faces the worst drought in almost 150 years, Georgia communities are learning that the Third World isn’t the only place tension and upheaval over water resource may be found.
Moderated by Laura Shenkar of the Artemis Project, the panel also includes other environmental business leaders: Greg Koch of The Coca-Cola Company, Craig Robinson of AIG Global Real Estate, and Craig Kvien of the National Environmentally Sound Agriculture Lab, discussing the challenges and opportunities for companies as we enter an era of water scarcity and the new technologies being used to mitigate the crisis.
“Chris Spain’s participation in the MIT Enterprise Forum panel coincides with HydroPoint’s Sustainability 2.0™ Educational Series, which furthers the company’s vision of coupling strong financial benefits with delivering on sustainability goals to enterprise customers, municipalities and water districts,” said Sharon Thompson, vice president of marketing for HydroPoint. “The Sustainability 2.0 Educational Series provides insight and knowledge of how to measure, manage, save and monitor successful Smart Water Management strategies.”
Sustainability 2.0 strategies fuse economic and green benefits, enabling conservation programs to produce accountability and ROI for lasting financial and environmental returns. Organizations that have implemented next-generation sustainability programs have realized substantial cost savings by reducing their corporate water footprint. The Sustainability 2.0 Educational Series consists of webcasts, tradeshows and speaking engagements.
Information about upcoming Sustainability 2.0 Educational programs, including webcasts and events can be found here: http://www.hydropoint.com/weathertrak-updates/events.php.