Katie Peach, Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions | WWD Young Pros

June 8, 2023
Katie Peach is the North American domain leader for potable and advanced reuse, a role in which she gets the best of the water and wastewater worlds.

Katie Peach pushes herself to be her best in everything she does. Outside the office, she's an endurance athlete who has completed half-triathlons in France and South Africa. But in the office, she is the North American domain leader for potable and advanced reuse for Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions.

In this role, she leverages her background in pharmaceutical wastewater and her acumen and passion for drinking water and wastewater to advance water reuse across North America.

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Timestamps

  • Introduction | 0:00
  • Why water? | 0:40
  • How career trajectories flow and intersect | 2:13
  • The grey area between wastewater and drinking water | 3:24
  • Veolia Women's Network Hub | 4:05
  • A global perspective on DE&I | 7:01
  • Hobbies and sports | 7:53
  • Generational influences on the wastewater industry | 8:59
  • Message to employers | 10:03
  • Outro | 12:07

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Bob Crossen

Bob Crossen is the editorial director for the Endeavor Business Media Water Group, which publishes WaterWorld, Wastewater Digest and Stormwater Solutions. Crossen graduated from Illinois State University in Dec. 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in German and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. He worked for Campbell Publications, a weekly newspaper company in rural Illinois outside St. Louis for four years as a reporter and regional editor. 

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