Evan Thomas discusses climate change and its impact on water in a new TEDx talk.
Thomas is the Endowed Chair and Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and Resilience at the University of Colorado Boulder and a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and the Environmental Engineering program. He is also the founder and CEO of Virridy.
He is an expert on water and air testing and treatment, particularly in developing communities.
Water insecurity is increasing globally as one of the first perceivable effects of climate change. While water management is typically a local challenge, climate finance mechanisms offer the potential to switch climate-damaging capital toward climate reparative water infrastructure and create a sustainable, performance-based funding stream to incentivize safe water services globally.
This talk was given at a TEDx Boulder event held in April.