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Understandably, Americans are focused on oil – its cost, its supply and the dependency on foreign sources – some overtly hostile to the United States. However, there is another natural resource even more critical to our prosperity and indeed, to our very survival – water. Yet no politician has raised looming water shortages as an issue for our concern.
Like oil, it is an equation of supply and demand. The supply of water has not increased. The demand however, has soared. Since the 1960’s the native-born population of the United States, all races and all ethnicities, has stabilized. Nearly all the massive increase in population has been due to immigration and the increased fertility rates of new immigrants. At the current rates of legal and illegal immigration, how will the people of the United States guarantee a supply of clean, potable water for the next generation?

Submitted on: 12/28/2007 12:00 AM | Category Interview with Rob Renner


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Mr. Renner is the Executive Director of the Awwa Research Foundation (AwwaRF). AwwaRF is a member-supported, international, nonprofit organization that sponsors research to enable water utilities, public health agencies, and other professionals to provide safe and affordable drinking water to consumers. With close to 1,000 subscriber members in the U.S. and abroad, the Foundation has funded and managed more than 900 projects valued at more than $370 million.
 
Mr. Renner joined AwwaRF after serving as Executive Director of ISA.  As CEO he directed the company’s efforts at supporting automation activities throughout process and discrete industry including the water and wastewater utility sector. 
 
Prior to his experience at ISA, he was the Deputy Executive Director of the American Water Works Association, a 57,000 member association dedicated to safe drinking water, where he directed the association staff and lead initiatives aimed at optimizing water utility management and operations.  He has more than 20 years of consulting experience helping utilities optimize treatment plant performance and assisting with management and administrative issues.  He directed USEPA research aimed at improving utility operations and management and developed the materials used in the “Partnership for Safe Water”, a national program used to assist drinking water utilities in meeting the complex provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
 
Mr. Renner is an alumnus of South Dakota State University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Sanitary Engineering, and attended the University of Michigan Business School executive management program.  He was a commissioned Army officer with the U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency in Denver, Colorado for two years.  Mr. Renner is a Registered Professional Engineer in Colorado and Minnesota and a Diplomate of Environmental Engineering.

The Awwa Research Foundation is a member-supported, international, nonprofit organization that sponsors research to enable water utilities, public health agencies, and other professionals to provide safe and affordable drinking water to consumers.
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