Anthony Dusovic

Anthony Dusovic did not start in water. He started as an engineer in the defense industry, building radar systems for jet fighters, and only moved into the environmental field about seven years out of school, with two mechanical-engineering degrees from Manhattan College behind him. The company he joined was Ozonia, a maker of ozone-disinfection equipment that was then jointly owned by SUEZ and the French industrial-gas group Air Liquide, and he grew through it from project management all the way to CEO of the Americas, where a three-year plan to nearly double the company’s sales actually landed. So by the time most people in the sector had heard his name, he had already learned the water business from the side that sells the kit.

Anthony Dusovic then spent roughly seven years at SUEZ, and this is where the part that makes him worth listening to comes from, because he saw the same business from the opposite side. He ran capital planning and delivery on about $500 million of infrastructure projects, he launched and led United Water Federal Services, the SUEZ unit that won public-private contracts to operate utilities on US military bases and built a $4-billion-plus pipeline in two years, and finally he took on strategic projects, which is the role he held when he came on the show. His core point is one most founders miss: SUEZ both sells the PFAS treatment and is the regulated utility that has to comply, so he has had to hold the supplier’s pitch and the operator’s duty in the same head, and in his telling regulation is what actually drives the whole industry.

Anthony Dusovic used that vantage point to make the PFAS problem concrete. PFAS are the "forever chemicals", a family of roughly five thousand synthetic compounds built around carbon-fluorine bonds so stubborn they barely break down in nature, and the inconvenient truth he laid out is that the three proven ways to treat them, granular activated carbon, ion exchange resins and reverse osmosis (which is filtration through a very fine membrane), do not actually destroy the chemicals. They concentrate them, which just moves the problem to whatever you do with the leftover waste. He also read the regulation correctly before it arrived: in 2020 the US EPA had only a 70-parts-per-trillion health advisory, not an enforceable limit, and the binding federal limit he saw coming, four parts per trillion for the two best-known compounds, was duly set by the EPA in 2024.

Anthony Dusovic has since moved on from SUEZ, which he left in early 2021. He spent three years growing Tomorrow Water, a wastewater and resource-recovery company, and since 2025 he has been President and CEO of Trentar Water, the water and resource-management arm of the diversified Trentar group, where the work is AI and sensor-driven monitoring and treatment for utilities and industry. And the thread that runs under all of it, the one he gets visibly animated about off the clock, is social-impact investing and the move he sees in business away from pure shareholder value toward value for every stakeholder:

“Social impact investing, looking at triple bottom line impacts, for me is something that has really changed in this country. Moving from the old Milton Friedman concept of shareholder value as the only business driver to value for all stakeholders, that’s huge for me.”

He is, in short, the rare water executive who has sat on both sides of the table, which is most of why his read on a problem like PFAS is worth more than the average vendor pitch or the average utility complaint.