WLI 2025, Budgeting & Construction

From tight timelines to shifting budgets, water infrastructure projects face some serious uphill battles. In this short video, our Water Leadership Institute team digs into the human side of project delivery – how early decisions, assumptions, and communication gaps can lead to big problems later on.

Through a mix of personal insights and lived professional experience, we highlight the cost of misalignment across project roles – from design to construction to operations – and why it (literally) pays to engage stakeholders early and often.

This isn’t a how-to guide, it’s a conversation starter. And it’s the first in a two-part series designed to help water professionals reflect on the challenges they’re facing and spark ideas for how we can work smarter together.

[Team Members: Lisa Mace, Rubin Riese; Jackie Kingdom; Jordan Lewis; Michael Hess, Michael Rodriguez & Nicholas Lewis ]

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