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Water Talks podcast: Big Five-interview Rohit Aggarwala

Geschreven op 10 augustus 2023. Gepost in Podcast, Stad, Water, Water Talks.

In this 10th and last episode of Water Talks, I meet Rohit Aggarwala, the Chief Climate Officer of New York City and the commissioner of the city’s Department of Environmental Protection. He is deeply invested in using storm protection measures to not just build walls, but to make the city a better place for the people who live there, to give the city what he calls ‘a livable waterfront’. I spoke with him about the city’s sewers, about making the city more resilient with measures ranging from seawalls to rain gardens, and about the water around New York, which has gotten so clean that there are even dolphins swimming in it. But we can’t yet eat the oysters that grow there.

Rohit trained as a historian and worked as a journalist and as a consultant at McKinsey before going to work for former Mayor Bloomberg as the head of the office of long-term Planning and Sustainability. 

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