The Make Water Work Podcast - Episode 16 Featuring George Hawkins

Episode 16: George Hawkins - The Moonshot Mindset

In this episode of the Make Water Work Podcast, Megan Glover and Isaac Pellerin sit down with the former GM of DC Water and current founder of Moonshot Missions, George Hawkins, for a fast-moving conversation about what it really takes to modernize utilities, especially the ones with the fewest resources.

George shares how a childhood moment in Cleveland, including seeing a polluted river that later caught fire, shaped his life in water and why he believes the “health of a place” is written in its water. From there, he dives into the hard, practical truth: we cannot fund our way out of the water crisis without changing how utilities operate.