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Finding Genius Podcast

Using Engineering To Facilitate Sustainable Water Management With Anacleto Rizzo

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Water is the backbone of human life, and professionals like Anacleto Rizzo are committed to preserving it. As a hydraulic civil engineer, Anacleto works on sustainable water management, nature-based solutions for wastewater treatment, climate change adaptation policies, sustainable drainage systems, and more…  

With a Ph.D. in environmental engineering, Anacleto has focused his expertise on the natural world. Most recently, he has worked as a partner and in-house consultant in research, development, dissemination, and design for Iridra Srl – an engineering firm in Florence, Italy. 

In this episode, Anacleto discusses:

  • What nature-based solutions can accomplish in environmental preservation. 
  • The process involved in greywater treatment.
  • The environmental and economical benefits of sustainable water practices. 

To learn more about Anacleto and his work, click here now!

Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

Transcript

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0:00.0

but it's like if you have a lot of voses and you are irrigating, feeding, irrigating the first

0:07.1

vose, the gray water is percolating inside the first one and is starting to be polluted.

0:11.8

Then is collected at the bottom and is entering in a second race, those and then in this way

0:19.0

with different steps, you are treating the gray water and at the very final end,

0:24.2

you will have essentially clean water.

0:54.7

And more, here come the geniuses. This is the Finding Genius Podcast, the Richard Jacobs.

1:04.8

Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast and the Surviving Card Times Podcast.

1:10.4

I have Anacleto Rizzo, he's a hydraulic civil engineer and we're going to talk about his work

1:15.2

in sustainable water projects. So Anacleto, thank you for coming.

1:19.5

Thank you, Richard. It's for inviting me.

1:21.6

Tell me a bit about your background and how you ended up working in the environmental field

1:26.4

that you're in. Yes, so essentially my background is a master degree in engineering in civil

1:32.4

and hydraulic engineering. Then I at PhD in environmental engineering, in which I started instead

1:39.1

to study a little bit more natural processes in environment. And so after this period, I had some

1:46.3

collaboration with University in Europe and I met this now my colleague that is Fabio Mazi,

1:53.5

that is quite known in our field and see if this author to come to work in Florence for a

2:00.4

RIDRA that is maybe we will talk about later. And so essentially in the last eight years I worked

2:08.1

here in RIDRA as designer of nature-based solution essentially. So what kind of project you're

2:14.3

working on right now specifically? Essentially in RIDRA we work on NBS, so a nature-based solution

2:20.2

for sustainable water management and that is quite broad approach. Usually we work about water

2:27.5

pollution control, but also your band drainage or climate change adaptation. So essentially

2:34.8

this is what we are working and we work both in design, so engineering, detail design and

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