Doc Hall: Wicked Problems (Video 6 minutes)
We will be doing more about wicked problems on this blog. A comment about the video: at the end, Jose the owner of the restaurant said that his wicked problem at the time was disposing of grease from his restaurant. The problem becomes much more extensive because it relates to the problem of water supply and sewage in a small town, and especially during a draught, but we did not want to take up 5 more minutes of video time drawing this out with Jose.
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