The Make Water Work Podcast - Episode 27 Featuring Lia Clark
Funding & Budgeting
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Episode 27: Lia Clark - Engineers With Empathy: Rethinking Water Leadership and Finance
In this episode of Make Water Work, Isaac Pellerin and Megan Glover sit down with Lia Clark, Community Support Director at Water Finance Exchange and founder of Engineer With Empathy.
Lia shares her journey into water, from an orphanage service trip in China to working on some of the toughest water infrastructure challenges in underserved communities across Texas.
This conversation dives into:
- Why most small water systems struggle to access funding
- The reality behind state and federal infrastructure dollars
- Why water utilities must operate more like businesses
- The hidden barrier: trust, not just pipes and funding
- How “Engineer With Empathy” is reshaping how engineers work with communities
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