interview Lorena Cagigas always dreamed of being what she is: a designer of machines that help people. Even better, she has achieved it by leading Water Engineering at ACCIONA. Water is not your average specialty, it includes many exciting adventures, from exploration of the environ-ment (in places and populations under extreme water stress), to con-ceptual design, technological process development, commissioning, operation, and upgrading. At the end of that road, you come face to face with its human benefit and observe the social impact of the quintes-sential basic need. This is why she defends its value and cost. It is this professional challenge and personal satisfaction that are in fact the main motivation for an elite team that designs advanced versions of purifiers, treatment units, desalination plants, and comprehensive water cycle management, which are becoming more and more affordable and effi-cient, in order to meet the moral mandate to bring water wherever it is needed.