Ned Daugherty is the Founder and CEO of H2O Futures, an environmental consulting firm that designs and develops biomimicry focused water systems. He has lived and worked all over the world, and joins us today on the podcast to talk about different ways to create fresh water and salt water systems, how a salt water farm works, and the future of water security. We’ll discuss how all of this might be integrated into the vertical city concept as well.
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"My career has been designed around the idea that we really need to bring disciplines together because our problems are all interconnected in some way." - Ned Daugherty
Show Notes:
- Ned’s wholistic approach to design
- How the design of the water system is integrated into the design of a building project
- Why the world sustainability doesn’t involve changing things for the better
- What treatments and systems his firm is designing for fresh water
- What biomimicry means
- The systems they design to recycle 95% of the water in a system
- What natural swimming pools are
- How the saltwater system differs from the freshwater system
- What halophytes are
"We are rich with water - but water is not thoughtfully used and it’s disposed of in ways that are not appropriate." - Ned Daugherty
- All about a project that they completed in East Africa
- How aquaculture works
- Why these saltwater aquaculture systems are not prevalent throughout the world
- The social benefits to aquaculture projects
- Where these systems are needed around the world
- What has prevented the saltwater systems from being implemented around the world
- How these water systems would integrate into a Vertical City
- His thoughts on the California drought
Links Mentioned:
- Check out H2O Futures online
- Connect with H2O Futures on Facebook
- Connect with Ned Daugherty on LinkedIn
"Scarcity is not the problem - it’s waste." - Ned Daugherty