{"id":10027,"date":"2017-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isleutilities.com\/bravest-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:18:07","slug":"bravest-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.isleutilities.com\/es\/bravest-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Piers, no 169 - La empresa de suministro de agua m\u00e1s valiente del mundo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enclavada en el extremo suroeste del estado de Victoria, en el fondo de Australia, a 200 millas de Melbourne, se encuentra la ciudad de Portland. Fundada en 1800 por James Grant, era el \u00fanico puerto de aguas profundas entre Adelaida y Melbourne y, por tanto, un refugio seguro para los barcos en tr\u00e1nsito. Hoy Portland es una hermosa ciudad con 10.000 habitantes y una pr\u00f3spera industria pesquera y tur\u00edstica. Por lo visto, lo es,\u00a0<b><i><ins>el<\/ins><\/i><\/b>\u00a0lugar al que ir si se quieren ver ballenas y koalas (lo que supongo significa que las ballenas locales han aprendido a trepar a los \u00e1rboles o que los koalas ya saben nadar). Es un bullicioso centro de la vida australiana.<\/p>\n<p>Para m\u00ed, sin embargo, la regi\u00f3n es famosa por una sola cosa. Est\u00e1 abastecida por la empresa de agua m\u00e1s valiente del mundo: Wannon Water.<\/p>\n<p>Wannon Water abastece a 42.000 clientes y extrae agua de 14 fuentes distintas en toda la regi\u00f3n. Su peculiaridad regional es que tres de sus fuentes de agua bruta proceden de grandes y profundos dep\u00f3sitos subterr\u00e1neos que datan de hace milenios. A diferencia de muchos servicios p\u00fablicos y ayuntamientos de Australia, Wannon Water no sufre escasez de agua. Su agua es sana, saludable y abundante. Pero, por desgracia, el agua de las fuentes subterr\u00e1neas no sabe tan bien. Tiene un sabor salado y rico en minerales, reflejo sin duda de su larga historia de filtraci\u00f3n por el subsuelo.<\/p>\n<p>Compartir esta noticia en un acto de \u00e1mbito estatal (la siempre brillante conferencia anual de VicWater) requiere una gran dosis de valent\u00eda y confianza en uno mismo. Ian Bail (Director General de Prestaci\u00f3n de Servicios) y Kellie King (Directora General de Servicios Comunitarios y Corporativos), apoyados por miembros clave de su junta directiva y equipo ejecutivo que se encontraban entre el p\u00fablico, compartieron con valent\u00eda y humildad c\u00f3mo se dieron cuenta por primera vez del verdadero alcance del problema del sabor. Fue cuando el director de un hospital local (en Port Fairy...., el lugar con mejor nombre del mundo) apareci\u00f3 citado en la prensa afirmando que estaban eliminando las bebidas azucaradas y los refrescos como parte de una campa\u00f1a de salud,\u00a0<i>pero que buscar\u00edan alternativas adecuadas para solucionar el mal sabor del agua<\/i>. Esto fue una llamada de atenci\u00f3n para Wannon.<\/p>\n<p>Wannon ya proporcion\u00f3\u00a0<i>limpio y seguro<\/i>\u00a0agua, pero a algunos de sus clientes simplemente no les gustaba el sabor. En lugar de utilizar el grifo, los clientes compraban refrescos azucarados. Los \u00edndices de obesidad y caries dental en la regi\u00f3n eran anormalmente altos. Hab\u00eda que hacer algo. Como era de esperar, lo primero que hicieron fue proponer la construcci\u00f3n de una nueva instalaci\u00f3n de \u00f3smosis inversa que eliminara los problemas de sabor. No era barato, pero s\u00ed una soluci\u00f3n pr\u00e1ctica. Como era de esperar, cuando probaron esta propuesta con el p\u00fablico obtuvieron un claro \"no, gracias\". La gente estaba contenta con sus refrescos alternativos.<\/p>\n<p>En pocas palabras, Wannon se ha embarcado en una serie de proyectos de gran repercusi\u00f3n como \"Agua de gran sabor\", ha colaborado con el hospital local e incluso se ha atrevido a ir m\u00e1s all\u00e1 del contador de agua para ofrecer soluciones en los puntos de consumo. Queda mucho por hacer, por supuesto, pero el trabajo de Wannon ha puesto de relieve el reto que supone para el sector del agua garantizar que el agua que suministramos sea sana y sabrosa.\u00a0<ins>y<\/ins>\u00a0sabroso. El trabajo de Wannon ha demostrado que, si nos equivocamos, se agravan todo tipo de problemas sociales (como la obesidad y la caries dental). El reto no es s\u00f3lo el sabor, sino movilizar a todas las organizaciones de la regi\u00f3n para que aprecien los beneficios, y quiz\u00e1 incluso compartan los costes, de hacerlo bien.<\/p>\n<p>Hay muy pocas empresas de agua dispuestas a entablar un debate p\u00fablico tan honesto y abierto. Su postura ha legitimado un debate comunitario sobre la salud p\u00fablica y el bienestar que va mucho m\u00e1s all\u00e1 del sabor del agua del grifo.  Wannon Water: La empresa de agua m\u00e1s valiente del mundo.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piers Clark habla de Port Fairy, agua de gran sabor y Wannon.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-insights-and-trends"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Notes from Piers, no 169 - The Bravest Water Utility in the World | Isle Utilities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Notes from Piers, no 169 - The Bravest Water Utility in the World | Isle Utilities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Piers Clark talks Port Fairy, great tasting water and Wannon.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dev.isleutilities.com\/es\/bravest-in-the-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Isle Utilities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-09-17T14:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-03T09:18:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dev.isleutilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/logo-bg.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anna Gunn\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Escrito por\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Anna Gunn\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Tiempo de lectura\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutos\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.isleutilities.com\\\/bravest-in-the-world\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.isleutilities.com\\\/bravest-in-the-world\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Anna Gunn\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/isleutilities.ina4devel.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9ed5dfb197233b06a271f994df47bdef\"},\"headline\":\"Notes from Piers, no 169 &#8211; 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