In this series our Indo-Pacific experts navigate the complexities of safeguarding our present and fortifying our future in these uncertain times.
Our focus is on delivering expert analyses and insights under the national security umbrella, to help you: "Be Ready for Today. Prepared for Tomorrow." This series is crafted for a discerning audience, including defence professionals, policymakers, academics, technology experts , logistics and supply chain managers, public health officials, and food and agribusiness purveyors.
It's designed for those who seek to stay ahead of the curve in understanding and implementing the cutting-edge strategies and technologies that define global security today and shape its evolution tomorrow.
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In this series our Indo-Pacific experts navigate the complexities of safeguarding our present and fortifying our future in these uncertain times.
Our focus is on delivering expert analyses and insights under the national security umbrella, to help you: "Be Ready for Today. Prepared for Tomorrow." This series is crafted for a discerning audience, including defence professionals, policymakers, academics, technology experts , logistics and supply chain managers, public health officials, and food and agribusiness purveyors.
It's designed for those who seek to stay ahead of the curve in understanding and implementing the cutting-edge strategies and technologies that define global security today and shape its evolution tomorrow.
The “Vaxa Bureau - Intelligence; Optimised Podcast” is a part of the Vaxa Grow Series and brought to you by the Vaxa Bureau team.
#40 Clean Water for Vulnerable Indo-Pacific Communities | Shannon Lemanski - Part 1
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#40 Clean Water for Vulnerable Indo-Pacific Communities | Shannon Lemanski - Part 1
Bottled-water pallets burn, plastic piles grow and aircraft haul “expired” crates across oceans, all because remote bases and towns can’t trust the tap.
In this Part 1 of “Clean Water for Vulnerable Indo-Pacific Communities” episode, host Todd Crowley sits down with former Army logistician Shannon Lemanski, founder of Queensland social enterprise Aqua Ubique, to unpack a different path: atmospheric water generation (AWG).
Lemanski traces hard lessons from Papua New Guinea and East Timor - where uniformed forces were ordered to slash and burn perfectly good bottles to today’s boil-water alerts in Cherbourg. With more than two million Australians still lacking reliable drinking water, the problem is local before it is global.
The discussion moves from field anecdotes to strategy:
✔️ Why AWG mirrors rooftop solar - producing a critical resource at the point of need. ✔️ The hidden cost of long-haul bottled water and how decentralised systems lift supply chain resilience. ✔️ A commercial model that charges offices for ten bottles yet makes thirty on-site, funding machines for remote communities on a 5-for-1 basis. ✔️ Partnering with First Nations groups and food-rescue networks to build trust and sovereign capability across the Indo-Pacific.
Planners will leave with a practical blueprint to cut convoy kilometres, reduce plastic waste and harden infrastructure against disruption—a win for budgets, health and national interest.
More to come in Part 2. Find deeper briefs and field-ready frameworks inside Vaxa Bureau.
Intelligence; Optimised Podcast
In this series our Indo-Pacific experts navigate the complexities of safeguarding our present and fortifying our future in these uncertain times.
Our focus is on delivering expert analyses and insights under the national security umbrella, to help you: "Be Ready for Today. Prepared for Tomorrow." This series is crafted for a discerning audience, including defence professionals, policymakers, academics, technology experts , logistics and supply chain managers, public health officials, and food and agribusiness purveyors.
It's designed for those who seek to stay ahead of the curve in understanding and implementing the cutting-edge strategies and technologies that define global security today and shape its evolution tomorrow.
The “Vaxa Bureau - Intelligence; Optimised Podcast” is a part of the Vaxa Grow Series and brought to you by the Vaxa Bureau team.
