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Pete Buttigieg: “By doing [this], it could save hundreds of millions of…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Deans Forum - A Conversation with Pete Buttigieg: "Leadership, Innovation and the Next Generation"

Published | Video Starts at 44:21

Some people here at Notre Dame were cooking up technologies, sensor technologies that could allow a sewer to be sewer system to be managed more efficiently. And By doing [this], it could save hundreds of millions of dollars, which meant thousands of dollars per family in their water rates in a low income community like South Bend. And so as an example of this collaboration that led to a small business that wound up serving other cities with the same problem around the country, created jobs here and did good out there. (44:21–44:31)

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