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As they say, experience is the best teacher to guide us in
every path we take. However, the most valuable lessons
we can learn dont have to come from our own experiences
but from other people as well. For the leaders from different
industries today, they often leave us intrigued and amazed
on how they made it to where they are now. With every story
they share, we learn important lessons we can apply in our
own careers.
EDITORS
and other aspects of ones personal life. Read this exciting
exclusive story and find out what his advices are on leading
and helping more people in the coming difficult future.
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Osmoflo is a progressive water treatment company
that provides tailored, turn-key water and wastewater
solutions across the industrial, resources and
municipal sectors globally.
Abengoa, the international company that applies The project, which also provides for the option of
innovative technology solutions for sustainability being operated on wind power, meets the demand
in the energy and environment sectors, has signed of water for domestic use in addition to irrigation
contracts to develop a desalination and irrigation water needs in the area of Agadir. At the same
project in the Agadir region. time, it will contribute to the development of the
main economic drivers, the agricultural and tourism
The project, valued 309 million, involves the sectors, and the conservation of the aquifers in the
construction of a desalination plant with a 275,000 area, therefore preventing their over-exploitation.
m3 total production capacity of desalinated water
per day which will be the largest plant designed As specified in the terms of the original
for drinking water and irrigation. The contract also contract, Abengoa will continue to undertake
provides for the possible capacity expansion to up the engineering, construction and operation and
to 450,000 m3/day. maintenance for a period of 27 years. Abengoa
and the Moroccan company InfraMaroc will be
This is a single project for the two clients; Office investment partners and responsible for the project
National de lElectricit et de lEau Potable (ONEE), financing.
the Ministry of Agriculture, Sea Fisheries and
Rural Development and the Ministry of Waters Abengoa has been present in Morocco since
and Forests of Morocco, which has been created 1977 and has offices in Rabat and Casablanca. It
from the mutualisation of two projects. The first has carried out major large-scale projects in the
one requires a 50 % expansion of production country, such as the worlds first ISCC (Integrated
capacity under the contract that Abengoa has Solar Combined Cycle) plant located in Ain Beni
been developing for ONEE, thereby increasing Mathar. With this project Abengoa consolidates
plant capacity to 150,000 m3/d of drinking water. itself as a major player in the desalination sector
And the second project calls for the additional in the world with a global installed capacity of 1.5
production of 125,000 m3/d of irrigation water million m3/d, to which we can add the recently
as well as the construction of the corresponding awarded contract to build a 250,000 m3/d
irrigation network for a total of 13,600 ha, desalination plant for ACWA Power in Shuaibah,
promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture. Saudi Arabia.
Emefcy Group Limited (ASX: EMC) (Emefcy) and million Emefcy shares. Mr Lauders ownership
RWL Water LLC (RWL Water) announced that of the combined entity after completion of the
they have executed a binding Sale and Purchase acquisition and the private placement is expected
Agreement (SPA) pursuant to which the two to be approximately 34%.
companies would combine. Following closing,
the merged company would be renamed Fluence The closing of the merger by acquisition under
Corporation Limited (Fluence). the SPA and the private placement are subject to
shareholder and regulatory approval, among other
Pursuant to the terms of the SPA, Emefcy will customary closing conditions.
issue 100.5 million new ordinary shares as the The merger is intended to create a global provider
purchase consideration for all of RWL Waters of innovative, decentralized water and wastewater
equity interests and pay US$10,000 in cash. Those treatment solutions for both municipal and
shares will be subject to a voluntary escrow for 2 industrial applications. On a pro-forma basis, the
years following closing. RWL Waters current sole combined company has been growing at an annual
member, an entity owned by Mr Ronald S. Lauder, compounded rate of revenue growth in excess of
has also committed to acquire an additional 20% for several years and anticipates revenues of
US$20M of Emefcys ordinary shares in a private over US$90M (A$120M) in CY2017, 71% of which
placement at an issue price of A$0.85 per share, is committed as of April 30 2017. The combined
which is estimated to be for an additional 31.4 company also anticipates increasing gross margin
The Company will continue to evaluate growth Richard Irving, Emefcy Executive Chairman and
opportunities as they arise together with available proposed Executive Chairman of Fluence, said:
funding sources, particularly off-balance sheet
funding for recurring revenue projects, and I believe that the combination of our MABR
funding offered by value added sources. technology and pipeline of upcoming
innovations, together with RWL Waters strong
Henry Charrab, President and Chief Executive global execution platform, has the potential to
Officer of RWL Water and proposed Managing significantly increase our share of the US$13
Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fluence, billion market for decentralized solutions, and
stated: Fluence will merge two experienced allow us to become a leading supplier to Chinas
professional teams in the global water and current US$15 billion deployment of rural
wastewater treatment space. These teams know wastewater treatment solutions.
how to deploy solutions quickly, reliably and
globally to solve any water problem in any market Both the merger (by acquisition) and the private
segment worldwide. I believe Fluence will be the placement are subject to a number of conditions,
first company that can focus globally on meeting including regulatory approvals and Emefcy
the worlds increasing need for decentralized shareholder approval. Closing of the merger
water and wastewater treatment with highly of Emefcy and RWL Water and the creation of
engineered and quick to deploy packaged Fluence Corporation Limited is expected to occur
systems. With over 7,000 references in more than in July 2017. UBS is acting as financial advisor
70 countries, we believe we have the track record to Emefcy and Hall & Wilcox is serving as legal
and platform to deliver disruptive technological counsel. Mr Ronald S. Lauder and RWL Water
innovations and systems to meet our ambitious are being advised by Spencer D. Smith, RWL
goals. Waters General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton
LLP and Clifford Chance.
Upon completion of the merger, Fluence will
25 Time Management Hacks That Every
Engineer Should Follow
You dont have to burn your midnight candles
if you just know how to manage your time.
Perhaps it has become a norm for engineers and
engineering students to juggle all tasks together Organize meetings as early as possible.
in meeting deadlines and preparing for exams.
By trial and error, it can all be figured out; almost Group meetings and communication to create
always it entails working late nights with the work blocks of uninterrupted work.
and projects rushed. If only they know what true
time management is, this will not be the case. Run tasks throughout the day that are in the
same context. Switching between projects and
Etienne Garbugli, a product design and clients is often unproductive.
marketing consultant based in Montreal, outlined
time management hacks that engineers and Work around procrastination. You can
engineering students can make use of: procrastinate between intense sprints of work.
There is always time. Its all about priorities. When things are unreasonable, break them
down into reasonable pieces for the goal to be
Only plan for 4-5 hours of real work per day. The achieved.
days always fill up with other stuff.
Prioritize. Always! There are no two tasks with
Work more when youre in the zone. the same importance.
Relax when youre not.
Always know that one thing that needs to be
Respect your time and make it respected. done for the day.
Multi-tasking is a bad idea is it only kills Break tasks into hour increments.
your focus.
Delegate if possible. Make use of other people.
Make a work routine that you can commit to.
Your body will adapt. Whats done is done yesterday. Stop thinking
about it and focus on today and tomorrow.
Think that you only have limited time since that
gives us more focus and productivity. Set deadlines for everything. Tasks with no
definite deadline will always take longer.
Start with short tasks.
Always take notes.
Work iteratively. Expectations to do things
perfectly are stifling. Writing down anything that distracts you will
stop them from popping up once you are in the
More work hours doesnt mean more zone.
productivity. Use constraints as opportunities.
Take a break sometimes.
Separate brainless and strategic tasks to
become more productive.
To meet growing demands, in recent years, the Small flushing volume, easy to keep clean
toilet has been continuously honed in terms Hygienic flushing results are achieved even with
of flushing technology, design, sustainability, small water volumes of just 4.5 liters. Thanks to
comfort and hygiene. Today, only 4.5 instead of the open, easily accessible rim area, the bowl
9 liters of water are required for flushing. Special is also particularly easy to keep clean, and this
new ceramic finishes are also environmentally reduces cleaning times considerably. The tried-
friendly. They are easy to clean and this helps and-tested WonderGliss coating makes the toilet
to reduce the use of both water and cleaning even easier to keep clean. The optional coating
agents. Antibacterial glazes, which effectively kill that is baked into the ceramics, doesnt give dirt
bacteria, meet consumers demands for greater and limescale a chance: deposits cannot adhere
hygiene. The addition of a shower-toilet seat and are therefore flushed away more easily with
offers even greater comfort: the warm water the water.
cleanses gently and thus meets the need for
hygiene and cleanliness. Hygienically clean
The alternative use of HygieneGlaze 2.0 further
Open rim and efficient flushing technology improves the hygienic properties of the toilet.
With its Rimless technology, thanks to the The new development is not a surface coating
successful interaction of geometry, optimized but an antibacterial ceramic glaze that provides
flow and design, Duravit has created an example almost indefinite effectiveness. The optimized
of pure efficiency. The open design of the toilet combination of four different metal ions and other
rim enables an innovative and efficient flush. A components forms the basis for the effectiveness
dynamic and powerful flow of water describes of HygieneGlaze 2.0, which kills bacteria and
Much has been said about creating lists, less to complete, you do it now.
scheduling, or making a plan to get everything
done within a work day. Its about preparing Zerkel argued that the do it now rule should
yourself on what to do and when to do it, you apply regardless if the job is doable in two minutes
know, for organization. Engineers are traditionally or five. Waste no time by completing tasks head
taught this since each accomplished task has an on, he believes.
effect with the others.
He mentioned two primary reasons this rule
If you are after finishing tasks as soon as possible, works: preventing procrastination and building a
Josh Zerkel begs to disagree with that style. He sense of productivity and momentum.
is the director of global community and training
at Evernote, as well as a certified professional Im not a big fan of look at your stuff, review it,
organizer. That latter part of himself should give methodically plan it, Zerkel said, referring to the
him the credibility of what he is talking about. first reason. If something is short, just take care of
it.
Rather than the popular I will make my to-do list
in the first hour of work and get all of them done One more thing, doing a task at the moment it is
within the day mindset, Zerkel prefers the I will remembered works because it can lead you into
do this now rule, whatever that task or job is. getting to the bigger things that might be more
He suggests that you do not need to think about challenging. Zerkel mentioned that thinking you
doing things later when you can do it now. are getting a job done should push the engineer a
little bit more in future tasks.
If you can do something right now in the moment,
without having to close it and then reopen it again He spoke about this in the general context of an
later, get it done now, he said. employee. But because engineers are taught to
plan things out first before tasks are completed so
It is related to the two-minute rule of the best- this might or might not be an effective productivity
selling author David Allen. That rule can be tip for us.
summarized as: if a task will take two minutes or
Utilities throughout the Asia Pacific region are Please rank on a scale of 1 to 5, how the following
steadily investing in advanced stormwater issues drive infrastructure investment planning and
management strategies to improve water resource decision within your stormwaterautility.
resilience and overall sustainability.
Regulatory
Compliance 4.3
The changing dynamics of weather patterns, Community
urbanization, population and the economic/ Expectations 4.1
social environments are prompting the regions
utilities to enhance investments in advanced
Flood Control 4.0
stormwater management strategies. This urgency Grants and
Incentives 4.0
is underlined by increased urban development in
Asia that is putting pressure on available land, and Critical Emergency
resilience 3.5
by rising seawater levels and increased frequency
Safety and
of intense rainfall events. reliability 3.2
Waterways/
Utilities in the region are analyzing climate habitat restoration 3.2
change impacts on existing resources, key
risks and opportunities, and the steps they can Figure1
take to ensure water portfolio resilience while Source: Black & Veatch
mitigating risks. Through such proactive efforts,
they understand that diverse infrastructure Asia Pacific is exploring advanced
and management strategies are necessary to underground solutions
holistically manage wet weather events, land use
and the changing economic/social environments. Rather than digging deeper drains, interception
and temporary storage facilities can function as
For example, findings from a 2016 Black & Veatch the stormwater systems release valve. Solutions
survey of stormwater utilities in the United States being built today are integrating more responsive
show that regulatory compliance, flood control, storage schemes.
safety, and community expectations are the key
drivers of stormwater infrastructure investments Drainage Services Department (DSD) of
(Figure 1). the Government of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Regions award-winning Happy
Adequate and dedicated stormwater funding Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Scheme
is critical to comprehensively address the (HVUSSS) project reflects how cities facing
operational and capital needs of stormwater greater impermeable areas and more land
management. In the absence of distinct reclamation are rethinking the way they plan and
stormwater service tariffs in the Asia Pacific manage intense rainfall in crowded urban spaces.
region, funding and prioritizing stormwater
infrastructure and management strategies The objective of the HVUSSS, which won the
remain challenging. However, advances in 2012 International Water Associations (IWA)
asset management as well as the emergence of Project Innovation Awards in the Planning
stormwater fees are facilitating change. Category, is to provide off-line flood retention in
the Happy Valley catchment during a 1-in-50 year
rainfall event.
Following the completion of the second phase Mitigating increased risks from aging water
in March 2017, the scheme has since been infrastructure
fully commissioned. New technologies used
at HVUSSS are now being considered for the Recognizing that proper maintenance would
optimization of the existing Tai Hang Tung be necessary as embankments could collapse
Stormwater Storage Scheme (THTSSS), Hong and cause more severe flooding downstream,
Kongs first large-scale underground storage Melbourne, Australia, has started investing in
scheme, which has helped alleviate flooding for retarding basin upgrades.
the central Kowloon area.
Utility provider Melbourne Water, which
Proactive stormwater management maintains these retarding basins, views them as
essential features of the citys drainage system
Singapores national water agency Public that help to reduce flooding. They are designed
to catch heavy rainfall and hold it in the basin, waterways and waterbodies with the surrounding
a reserved low lying area of land. The basins environment to enhance the recreational aspects
are critical in built-up areas because pavement, of streams, rivers and lakes for the community to
driveways and other hard surfaces restrict enjoy so that they, in turn, help keep the waters
infiltration and create more stormwater runoff. clean.
Enhancing the value of drainage assets For the HVUSSS project in Hong Kong, DSD plans
to include the reprovisioning of sports pitches
Regional governments are optimising their with a state-of-the-art turfing surface as well as
physical infrastructure to enhance cost benefits developing other community amenities aimed to
while achieving multi-benefit outcomes. enhance quality of living.
Under this guideline, cities in China will collect This article was first published in the 2017 Black
and use 70 percent of rainwater, with 20 percent & Veatch Strategic Directions: Water Industry
of urban areas meeting the target by 2020. The Report. Download the report here.
proportion will increase to 80 percent by 2030.
Possible strategies for stormwater management catchments to attenuate the peak runoff loading
in Asia Pacific include: on the downstream drainage system.
If you dont want to start out your career competency and a master strategy.
as an ultra noob and wait for yet another
five years to learn the ropes of becoming So skip the bitter part of adamant failures
the ideal engineer your boss wanted to and get back on track from this set of
see in you for promotion, well this might traits to become a legitimate master
be your best shot to earn a resounding engineer.
reputation.
Has a Great Desire for Continuous
Being the good engineer can get you Learning. Improving yourself in the
the job but to stay in the run for career engineering profession starts by admitting
improvement is a tough work in this that you dont know everything and that
arduous battlefield called engineering. there still is a plenty of room for growth
There are no longer rooms for regulars. and improvement. A great engineer can
What it means to standout is high only stay on top of the workforce if he
is geared to learn new skills and is rapidly considered best. Thus, also equates to
adaptive to the latest trends in research and unending process of examination and
technology. meticulous research.
Be A Model Parent and Be I also learned from him how to teach yourself
Grateful to Your Mother & Father whatever you want to learn. He used record
tapes to teach himself English at home. In
I am now in my seventies and very grateful to the early 1960s, the family drove by car from
my parents and very happy with my family, Medina to Stockholm visiting more than 20
friends, neighbors, and partners. Thanks to European countries during summer vacations.
my creator, Allah, I was born with parents who Our English was very limited and there was no
were social leaders in Medina last century. GPS system to help us select the right road
to our destinations. This was an adventure
All my grandfathers and mothers came from trip that taught me many lessons. For this,
Bosnia more than 100 years ago. The first I encourage all young generations to take
was my grandfather who came to Medina adventure trips they enjoy in order to learn and
alone when he was 14 years old in order to discover their potential.
study. Apparently, he had challenging dreams
and worked hard to realize them. When his Other than my father, I also learned a lot from
father died, the son sold his inheritance and my mother including how to teach yourself at
brought with him products not available in home reading and writing since there were no
Medina in the 19th century. He built more woman schools in Medina until the 1950s. I
than 7 connected houses and a school to also learned from my parents how to treat all
accommodate students like him who came to people with respect and fairness, how to help
study in Medina. those in need, and how to live a modest life
even if you are rich.
My father was born in Medina like me. He was
only one year old when he left with his parents I am very happy that my only son Tarik and my
in the last train to Damascus during WW1. only daughter Basma are both model parents
The family returned to Medina after the war to their children. They are also a model son and
and my father improved the investment his daughter for me and for their mother.
father started. He used the school building to
accommodate the first high school in Saudi I encourage all parents to spend more time
Arabia, which he co-founded in 1936 including and interact positively with their young children
all levels after elementary school. because early childhood years are the best time
to plant love for others, wisdom, and social
I urge all future generations to get married if After returning to teach in Riyadh in 1977,
possible while they are in college abroad in KACST King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and
order to share more experience, knowledge, Technology asked me to establish and lead a
and friends. national committee to reduce increasing traffic
accidents. This national committee is still alive to
Be A Model Teacher and my knowledge but I resigned from it after moving
A Good Partner to Jeddah in 1982.
I could not convince the Saudi water minister to Strive to Localize Critical Knowledge
register the association in Riyadh. Water Science & to Your Society
Technology Association- WSAT
(www.wstagcc.org) was registered in Bahrain in In a desert country like Saudi Arabia, water & food
late 1980s and I organized its first conference are the most critical elements to the development
which was held in Dubai in 1992. and security of the society. I was lucky that my
older brother selected water desalination as one
of the business areas he started to develop after from desalination business and my Saudi partner
resigning from government. convinced me not to continue without a technical
partner. For this, I started WESCO Water and
I helped him start Al-Kawther Company (www. Environment Services Company in order to
alkawther.com.sa), for which King Khalid traveled provide engineering services and support to
to Jeddah to open the factory in 1977. those who want to build desalination or water
It was the first Arab company that can design, reuse plants.
manufacture, build and operate sea water reverse
osmosis desalination plants. WESCO helped more clients in India than Saudi
Arabia. I formed a company in India in order to
DuPont refused to be our partner at the time, as build and operate a desalination plant but could
well as UOP, because the technology was new. I not get all required permits in the 1990s. I
opened Al-Kawther USA in San Diego in order to managed to get the first Saudi permit to build a
learn the technology from technical people in the private seawater desalination plant and agreed
America who refused to work in Jeddah at that with my two partners to name it Kindasa (www.
time. I resigned from KSU and moved to Jeddah kindasa.com).
and then decided to be a businessman.
My challenge was to find a land close to seafront
After signing with SWCC several contracts, and the Industrial zone south of Jeddah to pump
DuPont was willing to build a factory in the product water. The lesson I learned that
Jeddah in order to produce the DuPont persistence and good partners help you solve all
membrane. I resigned from Al-Kawther in 1982 challenges.
in order to start water membrane manufacturing
company in partnership with Al-Jaffali Group and I started many companies related to water, food
DuPont. DuPont agreed to limit the sales of its or new technologies between the 70s and 90s,
factory to USA market and export from Jeddah but most of them no longer exists because I lost
factory to the entire world. interest or the management of the company made
mistakes. The only active company I am in its
Unfortunately, with new management in DuPont board now is Moya Bushnak (www.moyabushnak.
in mid-1980s the company decided to withdraw com) which develops, builds and operate in
seawater desalination and water reuse plants. sources to produce water and food within urban
Producing food in desert climate using farms.
non-conventional sources of water and
technology is another area of my continued Another promising technology I continue to
interest since the 90s. In cooperation with support is how to condense the humid readily
Arizona University, I invested with many Saudi available in the sky, any time. The concept is to
partners to build the largest seawater irrigated make it rain within a few kilometers in order to
farm in the world (300 hectares) on the Gulf produce drinking water, food, and energy at a
coast close to Kuwait to produce Salicornia minimum and sustainable cost.
seeds as well as vegetable oil source locally.
I urge future leaders to never to stop learning
I became the second chairman of Behar and supporting future solutions. That makes me
Company but the company stopped because happy because I can help more people in the
we could not increase the productivity of the coming difficult future.
farm in a few years to compete with other
vegetable oil sources. I still believe Salicornia Building Bridges of Hope and
can be the best food for many animals and Cooperation
the waste water of fish farms can be the best
fertilizer for Salicornia. We are all required to help other people in needs
starting with family and relatives. After the
Masader Co. is still active in building pozolan Bosnia war last century, IDB president asked
cooling systems using saline or seawater me to help the Bosnian people. My first trip after
for greenhouses, as well as cooling closed the Bosnian war was organized by IDB in 1997. I
and open space. My partner has many other managed to convince more than 10 well known
innovative solutions using solar power and local Saudi businessmen to join the trip.
I am proud I helped IDB start Bosnia Bank In order to make the worlds future to be
International BBI (www.BBI.bh) and SEIC better, happier, more safe, and sustainable, I
South East Europe Investment Co. (http://www. recommend that we develop better education
seic.bh) as well as the SBF- Sarajevo Business and social cooperation tools and environment to
Forum (www.sbf.ba), which has become an seek and spread useful knowledge and wisdom
international forum that connects businessmen for children, parents, and teachers of all ages.
with B&H business & government leaders from
Bosnia and other neighboring countries. I also I have applied this principle since the 80s when
co-started other private companies but most of my friend, the founder of Dar Al-Fikr schools
them did not continue. (www.fikr.edu.sa), asked for my technical support
to start an international school that teaches both
I am also happy I registered MNF-Mostove Nade Saudi and American curriculum, which uses
Foundation to help those in need especially the Arabic and English, and the best education tools
young generation. and environment at the time. My son Tarik has
studied all levels and graduated from DAF in the
I am also keen to start Bosnia Development late 1990s.
Exchange to facilitate crowd funding from The biggest effort, time, and money I have been
other Bushnaks all parts of the world, since spending since last year is in establishing a
most Bosniaks live in other countries outside sustainable education foundation to educate and
Bosnia. The project is based on the Pakistan support future social leaders and entrepreneurs.
Development Exchange (http://www.pdx.com.
pk/) which I helped establish along with several Taiba Knowledge Waqf (www.tkwaqf.org) has
philanthropists from Pakistan and its principal many knowledge-based objectives which
founder, Mr. Sami Ahmad. I hope BDX will be includes the Dar Al-Qalam project, made to
another bridge to connect Bosnia with the world. revive the Arabic language. This was inaugurated
It is worth noting that I visited many countries in Medina several years ago by the minister of
including India and Russia to connect with other education and the governor of Medina. I hope
businessmen and social foundations (waqifs). TQ Waqf will help as many schools to be good
I am still active to revive old waqifs related to models for future education systems to qualify
education, water, and health. and motivate future leaders to save the world.
Moya Bushnak pioneered the use of BOO and BOT schemes for water
desalination projects in KSA, and has since developed many such
projects in KSA. The companys flagship project and Saudi Arabias
first privately owned sea water reverse osmosis desalination project
(Kindasa) supplies desalinated water to the Industrial zones south of
Jeddah area.
Over the years, Moya Bushnak has worked in partnership with many
global water industry players in various roles on projects totaling daily
production over 481,000 million m3/day.
Is Your Engineering Job Eating You Up?
This is What You Should Do
No matter how engineers say they love their jobs, it will reach a point
where a day at work is all about stress, stress, stress.
Every engineering job starts with a perspective that
is forward looking. It doesnt matter if it is your n job, When an engineer is no longer that sharp at work,
but whenever you start anew with work different the best thing is to do is to take a break.
environment, people, and routines an engineers
passion and commitment towards the new work is Engineering work routines are detrimental especially
considerably high. when theyve been going on for so long. Strip
yourself of work even in just one weekend, better if
There comes a time when the engineering work its a long one, and do some unwinding to a point
curve declines dramatically. Everything at the that you already forgot you have files to attend to by
job seems to no longer be fun or exciting so the Monday.
engineer doesnt offer the same commitment when
he or she started. Plan with friends a trip to the beach; run a movie
marathon with your family. Anything to get the work
That curve soon becomes a straight line the work off out of your mind. You will be surprised how it
is meh, and you are just there to do the work you will change your perspective coming in to work the
are assigned to do and without passion. following week.
You are not allowed to mess it up; you are just there Another option, although it will take a lot of courage,
because you need to be, dragging yourself to work. is to reach out to your boss and ask to be assigned
to a different but related engineering department.
This applies to many engineers. No matter how they That way you will somehow feel renewed; things will
say they love their jobs, it will reach a point where a get a lot more interesting.
day at work is all about stress, stress, stress.
There is no option to quit your job just because it is
They think the work is not what they signed up for boring. You were excited on day one you just need
in the first place, but really it is just the same work to get that excitement back. Its all in the mind.
since day one. The time just passed by.
In this situation, engineers can be likened to But really, you need to get that weekend off.
machines susceptible to tear and wear.
46 Water Leaders July 2017
A Drink That Cures Hangovers
The fun of a night out with friends lasts until you wake up the next morning with
a hangover. This is true for most of us, but not for some folks in South Korea
because hangover cure drinks are popular there.
Now a former Facebook engineer who hails from that country is looking to
take this drink to the United States. He quit his recent job at Tesla to venture in
his own startup he calls the Morning Recovery, to offer his own version of the
hangover cure drink which is so far FDA-compliant.
Sisun Lee got the idea of this drink when he came home to South Korea. He
was 26 then. Lee spent some night with friends over drinks, one which is the
hangover cure, only to discover the following morning that he felt like he did not
drink the night before.
Upon going back to the United States, Lee told and shared about this drink to
his co-workers when he was still at Facebook. After he purchases Korean ones
online, everyone loved it. As expected.
I tried to import them, he said through with Dr. Lian and other engineer friends to create their
Business Insider. But no company wanted own formula.
to make Lee a distributor since he has no
background in beverages or consumer goods To test the formula, it took him a two-week trip to
whatsoever, which made him an unideal candidate to Asia, straight nights of getting himself drunk, and an
trust for business. additional 15 pounds to his weight.
But Lee was persistent. He knew that the hangover Eventually, he sought the help of other friends to try
cure drink will become a hit in the United States, so the drink. It came to a point to reach out to strangers
he thought of making the drink himself. to eliminate bias.
He has three years worth of nanotechnology/biotech We needed to give it to people who didnt know us
engineering in his background anyway so he should at all. But we couldnt get enough strangers to say,
have an idea. Lee majored in that field before he Yeah Ill get drunk and take this really weird sketchy
shifted to computer science. drink from you, Lee said.
Lee only needed to do more research, and that was For this, he put up a Web page which tells about the
when he found the work of Dr. Jing Liang. He is a science behind drink and shared it on Facebook. It
researcher from UCLA with papers about herbal got the attention of a VC in Toronto and decided to
remedies for hangovers. place the drink on Product Hunt, which is a platform
to launch new products.
In Liangs papers, Lee discovered that the singular
herbal compound that is behind the hangover cure Needless to say that it got the attention it deserved.
drinks is the dihydromyricetin or DHM, commonly
found in the Oriental raisin tree and rattan tea. It was Overnight we became No. 2 on Product Hunt. We
written that herbal trees from such trees have been werent even a startup. We were just people doing this
used to cure hangover in Asia for hundreds of years. thing, he said.
He also learned that hangovers are caused when we Lee converted the web page into a waitlist as the
drink more alcohol than our livers can handle, and a number of interested testers grew as many as 30,000
type of toxic builds up. people. This is apart from those who flooded Lee with
e-mails. But to interact with some of them, he started
And whenever there is too much of that acid, it a private Facebook group which got 800 respondents.
causes inflammation like a headache. Too much too
fast can cause vomiting, he said, and the DHM helps This kind of overwhelming response from his little
the body removes this toxic acid. hobby got Lee to rethink his job at Tesla and focus on
his startup. And so he did make the jump and quit.
While the Korean hangover drink served its purpose,
Lee believes that it lacks the purity, quantity and other Business with Morning Recovery starts July 5.
ingredients for it to really work. For this, he teamed up