Waterproof 11: Failing Forward
Thomas Edison once said: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” If you agree with that, you’ll love this edition of my podcast Waterproof for Partners for Water, where we speak with people who learned to “Fail Forward”.
We start with Esther Shaylor of UNICEF and the WASH Failure Movement, who talks about the little jerrycan that couldn’t. Zahid Amin Shashoto of Bangladesh’s grassroots organization Uttaran shares the story of well-meant, high-tech water solutions that had unexpected consequences. Lindsey Schwidder of the experimental Green Village in Delft explains that sometimes you need to get wrapped up in red tape to learn how to get free of it the next time around. And Mr. Water himself, Henk Ovink, who says, like Edison, that failure is about learning, even between nations.
Failing Forward… in this 11th edition of Waterproof. Listen to it here:
