WATER SHELF PODCAST: “Too Good to Be True” by Paul Brown

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Paul Brown⁠ joins the Water Shelf Podcast to discuss his unique, trailblazing, and entertaining book, ⁠Too Good to Be True: Scottsdale and Privatization in the 1980s (2020)⁠. His detailed account of a water treatment plant public-private partnership evokes both a specific time and place and larger themes of professional development and learning from your mistakes.

Mr. Brown is President of Paul Redvers Brown Inc., having previously served for 37 years at CDM Smith, including as Executive Vice President and Board Member. He is a Fellow of the International Water Association, a member of the Urban Water Institute’s Board of Directors, and previously served on the Boards of Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, the International Society of Sustainability Professionals, and the Council for Watershed Health.