Peter Brooks is Principal and Co-founder at Sylmar Group, a private firm exploring transformative technologies and businesses in water and wastewater. Peter has experience across the water and wastewater industry where he has worked on disaster response and remediation, treatment plant operations, advanced water treatment and wastewater reuse, and in-conduit hydropower. He is a former US Marine infantry officer, two-time Iraq War veteran, Fulbright Scholar, and an award-winning water policy instructor at Harvard where he received an AB (High Honors) and MBA-MPP. Peter is a frequent speaker at water industry events and his writing and work have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, and a number of water industry publications.