#62 - Anacleto Rizzo: Throwing your heart beyond the fence with treatment wetlands and NBS

About this episode

In this episode, Peter Marcus Bach interviews Dr Anacleto Rizzo about nature-based solutions for wastewater treatment.

What does a horror-game-loving Italian engineer have to do with cleaning your wastewater? More than you'd think... and the journey starts in a paddy rice field. In Episode 62 of The Grand Challengers Podcast, host Peter Marcus Bach welcomes Dr Anacleto Rizzo, Partner at IRIDRA Srl in Florence, President of Global Wetland Technology, and one of Europe's most active voices on nature-based solutions (NBS) for the water sector. They begin where two self-confessed geeks should: David Lynch films, ...

People in this episode

Host: Peter Marcus Bach

Guest: Dr Anacleto Rizzo

Topics covered

• wastewater treatment
• nature-based solutions
• engineering
• environmental science
• interview

Keywords

• wastewater
• nature-based solutions
• engineering
• environment
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IRIDRA Srl, Global Wetland Technology

Books & works: David Lynch films

Places: Florence

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