(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

Patrick Decker is the CEO of Xylem. Xylem is the fourth largest water business in the World and a water and wastewater technology company that's well known for its motto: "Let's solve water." Eleven years ago, almost day for day, ITT spun off its water business to create Xylem. That move itself didn't change much, but the eleven years' journey that followed profoundly reshaped the company and, by extension, many aspects of the Water Industry itself. Patrick Decker has been leading that transformation for now almost nine years, and in a sometimes very conservative Water Sector, he's bringing much of a fresh breath! For instance, a couple days ahead of his WEFTEC visit, he shared on social media which days he would attend and invited anyone to come to talk with him at Xylem's booth. And as we'll discuss today, as walking the talk is a critical pillar of his values, he also really had those informal discussions: the perks of being approachable. Does Xylem need the exposure of this podcast? Not at all; they already draw 1 billion people to their campaigns through their partnership with the City Football Group. But I think we all need the inspiration Patrick shares today. Before even recording, he mentioned how he would be worse of a guest than his brilliant colleagues Austin Alexander and Sivan Zamir that already appeared on that microphone. It wasn't humble brag but a sound respect for his team. And during and after recording, he addressed me as a peer in this Water Industry - which arguably I'm by no means, as I would be aware if I was leading a 5 billion business. What I want to underline here is how inspirational it is to see this kind of Water Leader. We know the challenges ahead, and it's good to see those qualities in the captains of the boats! Patrick was kind enough to stop by my microphone to share this wisdom shot. But he also had to continue his journey, as he was awaited on scene to give his talk, which makes for a short episode today. As you can imagine, I have dozen more questions that I would love to raise him, and that's where you can help me to provide you with the answers. If you like that first session and enjoy Patrick's answers, share that episode around you. Recommend it to your friends and peers, and come leave me a comment under my LinkedIn post to encourage Patrick to come back! I'm pretty confident that with the right level of support from all of you, I can win him over for a deeper dive. So come one, do it, and I'll meet you on the other side! What's Patrick Decker's Call To Action? Let Us Solve Water!Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Paul Gallay - Lecturer & Co-Director at the Columbia Climate School 💧 Columbia University is a global leader in climate and sustainability education, aiming to bring an interdisciplinary knowledge base for future climate leaders to work with businesses, communities, governments, and civil society to address the climate crisis. What we covered: 🌊 Why we failed at bringing people into the Water Equation and how we can act on it today 🩺 How there's an intricate relationship between water quality and our health, and how the recent US EPA PFAS announcements moved the needle 😊 How New York has been leading the battle against emerging contaminants since the 2018 Water Protection Act 💪 How the best approach to protect quality is not to treat Water, but to protect it at the Source 🚰 How New York secured its water future by entering into a Watershed agreement in the 1990s and what it involved 💸 How nature-based solutions in the Catskill Mountains and in the Croton Watershed represented an eight-time better solution than grey-engineered alternatives 🤝 How protecting New York's watershed has a bunch of welcome side effects for the local communities 💙 Communities, Households, their link to water, societal involvement, the Army Corp of Engineers, the Hudson river... and much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Paul on LinkedIn. ➡️ Check Columbia University's website ➡️ A big THANK YOU to Sciens Water for enabling this episode! ➡️ Check out the full story on how New York leveraged nature to mitigate its Water Risk on the (don't) Waste Water website! Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Paul Gallay is Lecturer & Co-Director at the Columbia Climate School. Columbia University is a global leader in climate and sustainability education, aiming to bring an interdisciplinary knowledge base for future climate leaders to work with businesses, communities, governments, and civil society to address the climate crisis. If you recall Season 3, Episode 13, I had David Lloyd Owen on that microphone to discuss his book, Global Water Funding. I've said it several times ever since, but if there's one book you shall read to understand the water challenges ahead, it's this one. It's hard to read, it's packed, and it's dense, but it's invaluable! So, in that book, I discovered the Catskill Mountain and Croton Watershed agreements, which the city of New York concluded in the 1990s. The Idea was to leverage nature-based solutions to prevent pollutants from entering New York's water scheme rather than heavily investing in a treatment plant that would take them out. Since then, we've further explored nature-based solutions on that microphone, with the City of Glasgow, the City of Paris, or watershed experiments in Italy and Austria. Yet, I had never heard of the one Paul will touch on in a minute after expanding on the New York watershed example I just mentioned. And that new program he'll introduce to us is the perfect example of a clever application of the Climate Change adaptation we discussed with Kevin Sofen last week. Climate Change is here to stay; it will have consequences, and fencing those off using nature sounds like a very sensible approach! Water quality, involving communities, teaching, or further researching, there's a dense agenda for today's conversation. So without further due, let me remind you that if you like what you hear, please - and I can't stress that enough - share it around you. Grab your friends' phones, and subscribe them to the podcast. Recommend your favorite episode to a colleague, or tell the World with a LinkedIn post! And, of course, if there's anything you don't like about the podcast, come tell me! Can Nature Protect New York From Water Catastrophes? Yes!Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Kunal Shah - Chief Growth Officer at Anaergia and council member of the World Biogas Association, the Singapore Water Association, and Imagine H2O Asia. 💧 Anaergia ambitions to convert waste into a carbon-negative fuel for a sustainable future. What we covered: 🔸 How we only tap into a fraction of the biogas potential today and why 🌎 How biomethane can change the Water Industry's carbon path at scale and today 🤝 How beyond just wastewater's organic potential, there's an incredible synergy to develop with other waste streams and how to leverage it ⛽ How a wastewater treatment plant can finally become a water resource factory, producing carbon negative fuel 💰 How achieving this shift will prevent cities from disposing of valuable waste in landfills while increasing their overall revenue 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 How Climate Change and Decarbonization talks should be integral parts of a modern company's culture 3️⃣ The three sources of waste Anaergia leverages to feed its renewable natural gas supply chain 🚀 The potential and limitations of all the current fads around new gas and energy sources ⏲️ The scale at which a biogas project becomes viable and the secrets to fast-track payback times 🧱 How breaking a Chinese wall inside a utility family actually changes the name of the game 🌟 How the north star of utility decision-makers is evolving and how resilience trumps all other KPIs 📆 How some still pursue fluffy targets while forward-looking utilities have clear marks with year-by-year rollouts 🌱 How challenging it is to lead complex project sales in the Water Industry as a young professional 💵 How much of a game-changer it was for Anaergia to walk the talk and finance its own endeavors from Day One 3️⃣ The three bottlenecks of Anaergia’s growth (that don’t include the usual suspects) ⚡ How Anaergia intends to become the “Tesla of Renewable Natural Gas” and how they execute that vision 🧑‍🏫 How the Water Industry is a living MBA for young water professionals, how they are desperately needed, and how they can get support 📈 The meaning of “Anaergia,” the common pitfalls of water entrepreneurship, resource recovery, Anaergia’s Ideal Customer Profile, Developing projects, Having skin in the game, Becoming a management partner for your customers... and so much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Kunal on LinkedIn ➡️ Check Anaergia's website ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how Carbon-Negative Fuels will decarbonize our World on the (don't) Waste Water Website!Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Hallo, bonjour, and welcome to the Don't waste water podcast! I am your host, Antoine Walter, and in today's episode, I am delighted to welcome Kunal Shah as my guest! Kunal is Chief Growth Officer at Anaergia, and a council member of the World Biogas Association, the Singapore Water Association, and Imagine H2O Asia. Anaergia ambitions to convert waste into a carbon-negative fuel for a sustainable future. By Season 5, episode 12, we got to meet one of the Water Industry's legends, Andrew Benedek, the founder and architect of Zenon. There were so many nuggets to dig, from wastewater membranes to entrepreneurship through some of the boldest moves in our industry, that I didn't really cover his new endeavor with Anaergia. Actually, to be honest, I did it on purpose at the time. Because when I interviewed Andrew, I had just met Kunal a couple weeks before at the Global Water Summit. And the least I can say is that I got incredibly impressed by his speed of thought, his knowledge, and his accuracy. And as he had almost agreed to join me on that microphone, I wanted him to be our guide into the present and the future of biomethane production, aka our sector's carbon-negative fuel. I finally could take my microphones to Anaergia's office in Singapore some weeks ago, and let's face it, the rest is gold. But don't take my word for it; experience it for yourself. So I'll strive to keep this intro short and let you dive into Kunal's insight as fast as possible. Because when interviews are on my editing table, I always extract some highlights to share them on social media. Kunal broke a record: right now, I have about 14 minutes of highlights! So remember, if you like what you hear, don't keep that knowledge for you. Sharing is Caring, take this episode and share it with a colleague, come tell me what you liked about it on LinkedIn, grab your friend's phones and subscribe them to the podcast, come on do it, and I'll meet you on the other side! How to Make Carbon Negative Fuel, Boost Utility's Revenue and Save the WorldHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Kevin Sofen - Director of Innovation at W. S. Darley & Co., Host of the Smart Firefighting podcast, and Co-Host of the SDG Talks Podcast. 💧 The SDG Talks podcast highlights Change Makers and their work towards the UN SDGs with a sound passion for highlighting people and organizations that will transform the world into a better place for everyone. What we covered: 💧 How Kevin first got involved with Water when he aimed to rethink H2O, and how his focus evolved into the SDG Talks 🔵 How water's value is multi-faceted and how you need a holistic and almost ethnographic approach to really evaluate its impact 🖇️ How Water is deeply interconnected with many - if not all - of the SDGs 🚰 How we often lack information about Water Quality and how to take on that challenge - with examples from Flint or Jacksonville 🌱 How it's time to not only fight climate change, but also start thinking about climate change adaptation technologies 🤝 How everyone should take ownership of their Water Quality and how they may be coached to do so 🏌️ Water as a vector of inclusion, Golfing next to Lake Michigan, Coach K, Elkhart Lake, Kevin's Why... and much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Kevin on LinkedIn. Or follow him on Twitter. ➡️ Check the SDG Talk's website ➡️ Enrich your curiosity's inner fire with the Smart Firefighting podcast's website ➡️ Check out the full story on how to close the water gap on the (don't) Waste Water website! Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Kevin Sofen is Director of Innovation at W.S. Darley, but also a repeat podcast host with the Smart Firefighting podcast and the SDG Talks, a social entrepreneur with Wristsponsible, and adjunct professor at DePaul University, a multiple board member and a talent at Unleash. And if you wonder how he packs all of this in one life, don't worry, I wonder too! The SDG Talks podcast highlights Change Makers and their work towards the UN SDGs with a sound passion for highlighting people and organizations that will transform the World into a better place for everyone. To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport. Where you have five acting as one, you become selfless. That's not from me; it's a quote from Coach K, the legendary 3 times basketball Olympic champion, 5 times NCAA winner, and Hall of Famer. Why do I talk about basketball? Well, because among all Kevin's activities, he's rolling out a coaching program that enforces people's ownership and intentionality toward their water. I'll let him expand on it in a minute. But beyond the anecdote, the key message here to me is that change is a process no one can fully undergo alone. And if we want to change the World for the better, we need to team up, build upon each other's strengths, and get inspiration from proven best practices. So Kevin sharing two hands full of his volunteering, activist, associative, business-related, or entrepreneurial experiences is like a mini-masterclass and a powerful refuel on inspiration. I bet that in some minutes, you'll start seeing SDGs differently, starting with all the ones that are not number 6. And if I further zoom out, you may look at water with a different eye. But without further teasing, I'll let you dive into my conversation with Kevin right after reminding you that if you like what you hear, please - and I can't stress that enough - share it around you. Grab your friends' phones, and subscribe them to the podcast. Recommend your favorite episode to a colleague, or tell World with a LinkedIn post! And, of course, if there's anything you don't like about the podcast, come tell me; I'm doing my best to better that content, one episode at a time. Come on, do it, and I'll meet you on the other side. The Dear Link Between Water, SDGs and our Everyday LivesHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ George McGraw - CEO & Founder of DigDeep 💧 DigDeep is a human rights nonprofit serving the 2.2 million+ Americans without the sinks, bathtubs, or toilets that the rest of the US takes for granted. What we covered: 🤯 How 2.2 million Americans don't have access to water and wastewater services at home and how these places affected by the Water Gap could be at a 10-minute drive of your home 🍀 How investing in water offers an insane return on investment of five dollars for one! 😊 How access to water solves a wide array of problems, starting with undervalued ones like type two diabetes 🌱 How DigDeep came to existence, what it aims to solve and how it intends to have an impact on these million lives 🚰 How closing the gap doesn't stop at the people that desperately miss WASH services but also involves guaranteeing better tap water quality to 44 million Americans 🤝 How we will need to think a bit laterally and change our approach to closing the water gap - as traditional approaches have failed for decades 💸 How closing the water gap is before all a wrong pocket problem, what it involves, and how we can tackle this 🥛 How looking at the water challenge, you can see whether a half-full or a half-empty glass (pun unintended) 🏫 When DigDeep envisions achieving its mission and why seeing them disappear would be awesome news for all the right reasons 🚱 How solving up to the nitty gritty details will build a better world, one plumbing line at a time ✈️ The limits of central governments, finding the right catchphrase, getting inspired by the Airline Industry, One Water, Joining the movement, leveraging federal investment... and much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to George on LinkedIn. Or follow DigDeep on Twitter. ➡️ Check DigDeep's website ➡️ Check out the full story on how to close the water gap on the (don't) Waste Water website! Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

George McGraw is the CEO and Founder of DigDeep. DigDeep is a human rights nonprofit serving the 2.2 million+ Americans without the sinks, bathtubs, or toilets that the rest of the developed World takes for granted. I hope that the 2.2 million figure shocked you so much when I first mentioned it on that microphone a couple weeks ago in my introduction to my conversation with Colin Goddard from Source that you couldn't forget it. Cause I couldn't, honestly! If the richest country in the World struggles to bring tap water and sewage services to its entire population, doesn't it mean that we're somewhat doomed everywhere around the World? Actually, sitting down with George is exactly the kind of experience that makes you think: yes, there's a big problem. Probably even bigger than we all think it is. But at the same time, it's absolutely solvable. Or to quote him: humanity has solved much more complex issues than this one! So why do we still repeatedly fail at closing the water gap? Why, despite the brilliant minds and charismatic leaders from Bill Gates to Mina Gulli through Matt Damon and, of course George McGraw, that devote themselves to solving that riddle, why do we keep failing? Well, it might all boil down to one single issue. The wrong pocket's symptom. Those who've been in sales know the power of the right incentive! That is exactly where we're failing today. We heavily rely on utilities to manage water, and utilities are disincentivized to invest in helping these struggling communities because they would never be the ones reaping the benefits of this right move. But if there's one thing you'll be convinced of once you've listened to George, it's that we're not doomed at all. It takes half-full type of persons like him to bring us back on track, and I'm sure you'll exit this conversation freshly energized to go out and reap the five-to-one investment opportunity there is in doing what's right and good for everyone. So, if I'm right and George's message hits home with you, don't keep it secret. Take that podcast wherever you're listening from, hit the "share" button, and pass it over to one person over WhatsApp, LinkedIn, or TikTok for all that matters! Wanna distribute it further? Of course, please do so! But even just one person more that gets the message is one step closer to the goal of closing the water gap. Come on, do it, and I'll meet you on the other side. Will you help Closing the Water Gap and Save Lives?Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Errick Simmons - Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi, and co-chair of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative. 💧 The Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative works to improve the river's water quality, restore its habitat, coordinate the state's efforts, create sustainable economies around the basin, and celebrate the river's culture and history. What we covered: 🧠 How to rethink water we need to rethink the World - what Errick has been contributing to at the last COP 26 🍀 How managing a river basin involves the entire Social, Environmental, and Governance spectrum of activities 👦🏽 How finding a way to attract and involve youth is a decisive factor in guaranteeing our water systems' resilience in the coming decades 👴🏽 How the retiring workforce also leaves with a treasure of knowledge that needs to be transferred and safeguarded, and how it may require thinking laterally 🌊 How large-scale natural events and catastrophes impact a river basin and what can be done to preserve communities and perform pre-disaster mitigation 🤝 How the recent events in Jacksonville, Mississippi, highlight the need to reinforce solidarity and collaboration between neighbors and co-citizens of watersheds. 💪 How private and public forces should join their efforts to benefit from the best of two worlds - especially in presence of high social challenges 💻 How solutions from the past won't be solutions for the future, what needs to change, and what role digitization will play in this 🏫 How solving the water riddle probably starts with water education and which role universities, scholarships, and grants will play in this 🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏾 How diversity is an everyday battle, and how it is the best way to ensure we tap into our community's full potential 💚 Partnerships, water becoming the "cool kid on the block," water management as an integral part of environmental protection... and much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Errick on Twitter ➡️ Check the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative's website ➡️ Check out the full story on how to overcome the silver wave by turning water sexy on the (don't) Waste Water website! Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Errick Simmons is the Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi, and the co-chair of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative. The Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative works to improve the river's water quality, restore its habitat, coordinate the state's efforts, create sustainable economies around the basin, and celebrate the river's culture and history. About one year ago, I was working on my session as a moderator at the UN Innovate for Cities conference. What you've maybe noticed from that work are the three interviews that were featured on that podcast around nature-based solutions. But what I haven't shared here are my next steps into the rabbit hole. Having explored how the city of Glasgow was preparing for COP 26 and had adopted nature-based solutions some years before, I had a curious eye over the part of COP 26 that revolved around these innovative ways to administer and manage a river's watershed. And I had noticed how a dynamic Mayor, part of the American governor's delegation, was brilliantly bridging the social topic, the economic one, through aquaculture and nature-based solutions at the river basin level. You would have guessed that Mayor was Errick Simmons. About one year down the line, I got to sit down with him on this microphone at the Rethinking Water conference in New York, thanks to Sciens Water's invitation. Time was short, but I hope you'll get a glimpse of that other American story, where one has to be clever in government and bring together private and public funds while securing grants to guarantee the long-term sustainability of river basins and the cities they host. Social topics interlinked with Water. Intertwined with climate change and extreme weather events that regularly impact the region. And a water sector that needs to find a fix to overcome the silver wave. I'll leave the floor to Errick so that he shares the solutions and initiatives he contributes to roll out and the proposition he makes to bring Water to the place it should be in the public space: right in the center. Remember, if you like what you hear, please share this episode around you with your friends, colleagues, or LinkedIn Network. And as always, if there's anything you don't like about this episode, pleach reach out to me and tell me what I should be doing better or differently. Come on, do it, and I'll meet you on the other side! How to Make Water more attractive than the Apple and Samsungs of this WorldHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Trace Blackmore - Owner of Blackmore Enterprises and Host of the “Scaling Up! H2O” podcast 💧 The "Scaling Up! H2O" podcast intends to prove to you every week why working in Industrial Water Treatment is the best job in the world. What we covered: 📈 How there are 1.3 million water professionals in the US alone 🪐 How the scattered nature of the Water Industry brings most of these professionals to almost work alone and how much of a burden this can sometimes be 🏃‍♀️ How the state of the art always evolves in Water and how risky it can be to struggle to access to new knowledge streams 😔 How unfair it can be to work in the Water Sector: you will surely get blamed for your mistakes but hardly noticed for your successes 🎙️ How a water podcast can help connect the dots, how Trace first launched his, and what his thesis was by then (and still is) 🙌 How the "Scaling Up! H2O" grew into the "Scaling Up Nation" and how important it was to gather a community around the content stream 🤝 How Trace extends his impact into teaching and masterminds - and how much that has to do with a famous JFK quote 👔 How Trace started his entrepreneurial journey and why 📈 How being true to his voice and style was the decisive kick to setting the path to success 🔁 Trace's bullet-proof process to produce quality podcast content that you should steal and copy 4️⃣ Four "DOs" and Two "DON'Ts" to help you start out a successful show ⏲️ Trace's crazy schedule when it comes to interviewing people 💥 Creating a spark, building a community, being a catalyst, developing a business model, starting from square six, being a Friends fan... and so much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Trace on LinkedIn ➡️ Check the Scaling Up! H2O's website ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how the Scaling Up! H2O assembles Water Professionals in a Water Nation!Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Trace Blackmore is the Owner of Blackmore Enterprises and the Host of the "Scaling Up! H2O" podcast. The "Scaling Up! H2O" podcast intends to prove to you every week why working in Industrial Water Treatment is the best job in the World. If you're listening from the UK, Singapore, or maybe Denmark, you'll be surprised by the rest of this introduction. But actually, for the majority of water professionals, this water job is quite lonely. Think of it, there are over ten thousand water utilities in Germany or more than seven hundred wastewater treatment plants in Switzerland. And, of course, the record goes to the US with over 90 thousand water and wastewater utilities. As a consequence, when you're working for one of these scattered utilities, you have few colleagues. For instance, 85% of US utilities have three or less than three employees. The same is true when you're in industrial water treatment. Sure, many people work on an industrial site. But how many deal with Water? In most cases, at most, a hand full. So yes, Water is everywhere, and so are water professionals. Everywhere, and often alone. What's wrong with that? Nothing, except that it turns personal and professional development into a challenge. When you don't have colleagues to challenge you, bring you some industry news, or share best practices, you can only rely on yourself to improve. Unless there's another way! Because you might be commuting to work. Or having a run in the evening. Or getting bored while you mow the lawn. That's where podcasts have your back. I know, right now, this may sound like inception because I'm advocating for podcasts on a podcast. But my message here is that you may well right now be enjoying the best water podcast ever produced by a french guy - to my knowledge, I'm the only one, so I'm quite confident about that assumption. Yet, there are other great shows out there, like "Water we talking about" with Adam Tank and Jim Lauria, Abdelhakim el Fadil's excellent "Smart Water Solutions," Paul O'Callaghan's BlueNotes by BlueTech, or Dave McGimpsey's grandaddy of all shows with the Waver Values Podcast, which is the only one in this list that never appeared on that microphone, hey Dave, we should talk, and inevitably the famous Nation with Trace Blackmore's Scaling Up H2O podcast I thought you might enjoy going a bit behind the scenes of the podcast production today if you already know Trace and the Scaling Up H2O podcast. Or you may appreciate getting to know a great new podcast in the unlikely event you never heard of Trace before, in which case you'll be delighted to discover you can listen to someone talking about water without my annoying french accent. So without further due, I'll let you enjoy my conversation with Trace; just remember that, if you like what you hear, please tell your friends, colleagues, or LinkedIn network what they should take home from the nuggets Trace shares today, and if you don't like what you hear, please reach out to me and tell me what I should be doing differently or better. Come on, do it, and I'll meet you on the other side. How to Make a Lonely Water Professional's Mentor, Friend, and Caring ColleagueHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ James Rees - Chief Impact Officer at Botanical Water Technologies and Board Advisor at Bluerloop, Droople, and Noverram. 💧 Botanical Water Technologies strives to positively impact water scarcity by providing a new source of drinkable, sustainable, plant-based water for social and environmental projects. What we covered: 💧 How it might be time to think a bit laterally about water and get creative. 👴 How growing and developing new water technologies can be tricky yet might be desperately needed 🚱 How an external advisor can help a typical mid-market green tech company to overcome challenges and pitfalls and break the glass ceiling 🇺🇸 How capital still needs to be educated about water and how that actually happens. 🌊 How the ones with the money sometimes struggle to find out where to allocate it, while the entrepreneurs flounder to connect with that flow of ESG funding. 😊 How you have to be in water entrepreneurship for the right reasons and how that relates to a long-term vision. 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to James on LinkedIn; ➡️ Visit Botanical Water's Website ➡️ A big THANK YOU to Sciens Water for enabling this episode! ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how mid-market green tech companies could put their impact on steroidsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

James Rees is Chief Impact Officer at Botanical Water Technologies and Board Advisor at Bluerloop, Droople , and Noverram. Botanical Water Technologies strives to positively impact water scarcity by providing a new source of drinkable, sustainable, plant-based Water for social and environmental projects. Let me bring you a bit behind the scenes to start with today. I've been recently invited to give my first-ever TED Talk, which will happen end of November in Shaftesbury, UK. So now I'm binge-watching the most successful ones to extract best practices. And the link to today's topic is twofold. First, one of the most watched TED Talks ever, and maybe my favorite one, is Simon Sinek's one advising all of us to start with Why. Let's follow that advice! Why should we adopt new technologies in Water? Well, because we're facing new challenges. Why does the roll-out of these technologies take a while? Well, because Water is a highly political and sensible field with low rewards and harsh punishments. And why does it matter so much that new technologies get to roll out faster, succeed and bloom? Well, because that's how they will maximize their impact. Now, remember, I said the link was two-fold; here's the second one. Binge-watching TEDs to identify patterns takes a while, but it's doable. But is there a similar directory of instructions as to how to succeed as an early or mid-market water technology company? Of course not. There are incredible pieces of ecosystems: think of the accelerator programs, like Imagine H2O or Elemental, which we addressed on that microphone. Think of the incubation or pilot programs like the Xylem Innovation Labs or Isle Utilities' Trial Reservoir, which we addressed on that microphone. There are market data and analyst companies like BlueTech Research or Global Water Intelligence, which we addressed on that microphone. And, of course, there are associations, conferences, and brilliant podcasts outside of this one, and there is that very microphone. But who's connecting the dots? People, humans. You'll hear with James in a minute how we're just scratching the surface of the importance of connecting those dots and how one can actually do that. And if we start with why, the reason why we shall connect the dots is that it takes a village to solve today's water challenges. Many players still speak many different languages, and someone needs to translate. So I'll leave the floor to James after reminding you that if you like what you hear, please share it around. Tell your friends, colleagues, or LinkedIn network what you found interesting or inspirational, and if you don't like what you hear, please reach out to me and tell me what I should be doing differently or better. Come on, do it, and I'll meet you on the other side. How to take Mid-Market Green Tech Companies to the Next Level?Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Nick Shufro - Deputy Assistant Administrator, Federal Insurance & Mitigation Administration, Resilience, FEMA 💧 The Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) manages the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and a range of programs designed to mitigate against future losses from all hazards, including floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters. What we covered: 💧 How only 9 million insurance policies have been set in the US to protect people from flood risks, and how it's been a slow uptake to achieve that number. 👴 How Ben Franklin's advice is still very actual in today's context 🚱 How the US federal administration set rules to enforce pre-disaster mitigation, even after a disaster has happened. 🇺🇸 How funding availability drastically evolved under the current US administration. 🌊 How Nick's team comes in and meets people on the worst day of their life 😊 How it's all about reducing disaster suffering, be it with pre-disaster mitigation or post-disaster remediation 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Nick on LinkedIn; ➡️ Visit FIMA's Website ➡️ A big THANK YOU to Sciens Water for enabling this episode! ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how Pre-Disaster Mitigation shall be further developed on the website!Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Nick Shufrois Deputy Assistant Administrator at the Federal Insurance & Mitigation Administration. The Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) manages the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and a range of programs designed to mitigate against future losses from all hazards, including floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters. If you recall my conversation with John Robinson some weeks ago, we discussed how we often feel the impact of Climate Change through water. And yes, water scarcity will be a major challenge in the coming decades - it already is a challenge. But the other end of the spectrum probably doesn't get all the attention it deserves. Too little water is a problem. But too much water is probably even more of a risk! As I'm recording this introduction in early October 2022, the World still has the very pregnant images of one-third of Pakistan being underwater. And hurricane Ian still threatens Florida and many other places in the region. But as the European example showed, we humans have a strong capacity to forget about those crises and be surprised again when they return. Summer 2021 was all about floods, Summer 2022 was all about water scarcity, and we sometimes get lost. But what can we do about it? Actually, quite a lot. Pre-disaster mitigation is a vast toolbox with many options to reduce the impact of events we can't avoid or prevent from happening. Yet, pre-disaster mitigation is also often doomed. We wish we would have done more when it's too late. So, the message of administrations like the one Nick represents today is one to be heard, especially when there's no flood on the horizon, and we're all deeply convinced it will never happen to us. I'll leave the floor to Nick to quickly take us through the topic in just a second; the time for me to remind you that if you like what you hear, you can help me tremendously by sharing that episode around you. Please tell your friends, colleagues, or LinkedIn network what they should take home from the nuggets Nick shares today, and if you don't like what you hear, please reach out to me and tell me what I should be doing differently or better. Come on, do it, and I'll meet you on the other side. Pre-Disaster Mitigation Needs to Quickly Ramp Up in the US. Will it?Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Semra Bakkaloglu - Research Associate at the Imperial College of London 💧 Semra recently showed in her research how the methane emissions along the biosolids supply chain were vastly underestimated and proposed straightforward actions to correct it swiftly. What we covered: 📈 How methane concentration in the atmosphere is at an all-time high and has more than doubled since preindustrial times 🧑‍🔬 How the rising trend is ongoing, as the latest IPCC reports confirm 💥 How methane has a disproportionate impact on climate change and just puts the problem on steroids ⚒️ How biomethane production lines proportionally emit more than the traditional natural gas supply chain 🤒 How the development of the biomethane supply chain may have adverse effects if we don't sort out the super emitters 📈 How one specific step of the biomethane production process emits much more than the others and which one it is 📉 How the lowest hanging fruit to leverage Semra's research is to sort out the super-emitters and more than halve the emissions of biomethane production 😊 Being part of the solution rather than the problem, better understanding the biomethane supply chain, production means, and treatment steps, applying Semra's research in the water industry, the possible next steps... and much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Semra on LinkedIn ➡️ Read Semra Bakkaloglu's research paper on the underestimated methane emissions along the biomethane and biogas supply chains ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how Biomethane production leaks shall be reduced (and how)Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Semra Bakkaloglu is a Research Associate at the Imperial College of London. She recently showed in her research how the methane emissions along the biosolids supply chain were vastly underestimated and proposed straightforward actions to correct it swiftly. Sure, wastewater treatment plants gobble a lot of energy. But if you equip them with sludge digesters, they also produce a good chunk of power in the form of biogas. So, when you do the exercise of a mass carbon balance over the sewage treatment chain, you don't get to zero yet. Still, you're not that far - even more so if you go for advanced biogas production approaches, such as the ones we've covered on that microphone with Cambi, EMG, or anytime soon, Anaergia, and yes, that's a spoiler. Yet, there may well still be a silent killer in your plant. Because there's as much carbon in one molecule of carbon dioxide as in one molecule of methane. But releasing methane into the atmosphere has 27.2 times higher global warming potential! And as Semra demonstrated in her research, the total global biogas and biomethane emissions to the atmosphere today are about twice as high as previously estimated! But where's that gas leaking from? Well, here again, Semra and her team looked into a full range of emitters to identify the culprits along the supply chain. And then again, they identified a subgroup of super-emitters responsible for 62% of the emissions. Do you have one or several wastewater treatment plants within your area of responsibility? Then you'll want to double-check if you're not one of the bad pupils. And if you're a technology provider - be it in sensors or along the biosolids supply chain - it looks like the challenge you're solving just got twice more pressing. I'll leave the floor to Semra for you to get the entire story and the plentiful insights about the underlooked biosolids and biomass treatment chain in a second. Just allow me to remind you that, if you like what you hear, you can help me tremendously by sharing that content around you. Please tell your friends, colleagues, or LinkedIn network what surprised you in what Semra reveals today, and if you don't like what you hear, please reach out to me and tell me what I should be doing differently or better. Come on, do it, and I'll meet you on the other side. The Underestimated Hidden Threat of Biomethane Production. Time to Act?Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Taylor O'Neil - CEO of Richard's Rainwater. 💧 Richard's Rainwater markets what it claims to be "The Water of Tomorrow," aka Bottled Rainwater! What we covered: 💧 How Richard's Rainwater is the first company in the United States to get approval for bottling rainwater 💪 How putting rainwater into cans actually works, where and why. 🚱 How bottled rainwater actually solves two pains: water quality and water access. 🇺🇸 Why water challenges lay much closer than we commonly think, and how they are more and more embedded in our daily lives, even in rich countries like the US. ⚔️ How bottled rainwater actually tastes, and how to market it in the era of Evian, Fiji, or Dasani 😊 How the future might be to produce local point-of-use solutions to produce decentralized drinkable rainwater ➡️ Send your warm regards to Taylor on LinkedIn; ➡️ Visit Richard's Rainwater Website ➡️ A big THANK YOU to Sciens Water for enabling this episode! ➡️ Check out the full story (and a video) on Bottled Rainwater .Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Taylor O'Neil is the CEO of Richard's Rainwater. Richard's Rainwater markets what it claims to be "The Water of Tomorrow," aka Bottled Rainwater! People who know me well know my little secret: I have a bizarre addiction to sugar-free energy drinks. So, when I'm traveling, I act as a collector: I spot every can I don't know yet, make sure to taste it, take a picture, and wonder if anyone else in the World is as weird as me. So, when I walked the halls of the Columbia Water Center during the recent Rethinking Water Conference organized by Sciens Water in New York, I couldn't help but notice a strange can I didn't know yet. It had the shape of the Monsters, Rockstars, and the like, except that it wasn't an energy drink but a can of Water! This is where it's interesting: that Water is not just Water; it's actually rainwater, harvested, bottled or canned, still or sparkling. Let me do a clear disclaimer, this isn't a sponsored episode of any kind. I don't even know if Richard's Rainwater has competitors anywhere in the World. But discovering it got me curious, as this is the kind of atmospheric water generation we had never covered on that microphone. So I'll let Taylor be our guide in just a minute, the time for me to remind you that if you like what you hear, you shall probably consider sharing that episode with a friend, a colleague, or your LinkedIn Network. Please do it, and I'll meet you on the other side! How to Actually Fight Big Water with Pioneering Bottled Rainwater ?Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Seth Siegel - writer, lawyer, activist, serial entrepreneur, and an acclaimed public speaker. 💧 You might have read his "Troubled Water" book - and if you haven't, you should - or his international best-seller "Let there be Water," translated into 20+ languages. What we covered: 📉 How water tariffs are desperately too low and how this has consequences on the entire utility sector 😱 How we're operating municipal water exactly how we did it 75 or 100 years ago. 👴 How when it comes to agriculture and irrigation, we're lagging even further behind, as we operate as it was done... 5000 years ago! 📘 Why Seth Siegel got interested in water in the first place, and what his creative process was for his two first books, Let There be Water and Troubled Water. 🪶 How the success of the books changed Seth's life and got him to speak in the who's who of the prestigious and impactful scenes 😊 How Seth Siegel's approach to writing is not only to highlight problems but also to pair them with solutions 🏗️ Why consolidation is needed in the Water Utility sector and how it shall be done ❌ What the actual problem with the scattered US utilities is, and how is it the worst of two worlds 🤒 Why federal policies don't react to the right stimuli today - and how that shall change in the future 🥀 Why water can't be free, and what happens when you still try the gratis experiment 🔮 Where water shall be treated in the future, why it will not be central anymore, and how the actual treatment may look like ⚒️ How technology shall support the roll-out of the new distributed approach 🍾 Being a special member of a 1.3 million work group, putting ambitious projects on the ice during CoVid times, aborted new book research, new business endeavors... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with two 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Seth on LinkedIn; he's more of a Twitter guy though! ➡️ Visit Seth Siegel's Website ➡️ Check out the full story (and a video) on Seth Siegel's vision of the Water World.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Seth Siegel is a writer, lawyer, activist, serial entrepreneur, and an acclaimed public speaker. You might have read his "Troubled Water" book - and if you haven't, you should - or his international best-seller "Let there be Water," translated into 20 languages. If you recall the first episode of Season 2 of this podcast, Elango Thevar, the CEO and founder of Neer, explained how the decisive kick to start his entrepreneurial adventure was reading Seth Siegel's book: Troubled Water, what's wrong with what we drink. Ever since, whenever I ask my guests what book was and still is influential in their water endeavors, both Troubled Water and Let there be Water regularly come on top! So when I got to meet Seth at the Rethinking Water conference recently organized by Sciens Water in New York, I thought he might have one golden nugget or two to share with all of us. And indeed, he even had a bit more, as you'll swiftly notice. So without further due, I'll let you dive into that conversation, but not without reminding you that if you like what you hear, I'd be thankful if you share it with your friends, colleagues, or LinkedIn network. Because that's the only way, I can further grow this podcast and convince speakers like Seth to further stop by my microphone and share their insights with all of us. So please, do it, and I'll meet you on the other side. Seth Siegel: 50'000+ U S Water Utilities, 500 Water Talks, 5 Decisive Truths?Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Colin Goddard - Director at Source Global 💧 Source aims to market the world's first renewable drinking water system. Clean, safe, made entirely off-grid, and available almost anywhere in the world. What we covered: 😨 How more than 2 million Americans live without basic access to safe drinking water and sanitation. 😱 How over 44 million more US-Citizen are served by water systems that recently had health-based Safe-Drinking Water Act violations. 💪 How besides trucked and bottled water, Source intends to build a third path that might be much more sustainable ☀️ How Source actually produces water from ambient air by using the sun as the only source of energy 🪶 How the former Zero Mass Water has helped suffering communities like the Navajo Nation 💰 How much it costs to produce one liter of water using Source's Hydropanels (all inclusive), and how it compares to alternative water sources (pun non-intended) 💥 How Source may well produce water at 30 times the US utility tariff average, yet the comparison doesn't really hold water (pun intended, this time) 📈 How the Hydropanels aren't perfect yet, and Source's vision to one day produce the best and cheapest water on earth 🌱 How Source's intentions are written up to the company's bylaws, and how that leads them to be a certified B-Corp ❤️‍🩹 How centralized water solutions and technologies have failed to serve the edges of the grid ❌ How Source doesn’t identify as an atmospheric water generation technology and why ⚒️ How the Hydropanels work, how they’re monitored, how much they cost, and over how long 🏄‍♀️ How Source’s technology fits two different main purposes and hence can even be a suitable solution for California 🍾 Source’s business model, their own bottled water production, how a future decentralized water ecosystem would look like, water fit for purpose… and much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Colin on LinkedIn ➡️ Visit Source's Website ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how Source's revisit of Atmospheric Water Generation could disrupt drinking water on the edges of the gridHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Colin Goddard is Director at Source Global. Source aims to market the world's first renewable drinking water system. Clean, safe, made entirely off-grid, and available almost anywhere in the world. 44 million. That's the unbelievable number I dug out and triple-checked after discussing with Colin. In the United States, 44 million people are served by water systems that recently had health-based Safe-Drinking Water Act violations, as the Dig Deep non-profit reveals. On top of these almost 15% of Americans that may have trust issues with their tap water, more than 2 million US-Citizens live without basic access to safe drinking water and sanitation. So what's the way forward? There's, of course, more than just one option. When the Biden administration introduces a $111 billion investment to revamp the country's water infrastructure, that should concur to solve the problem. But realistically, as strong as the reinforced tree trunk may become, it will remain tricky and almost impossible to fully reach the tip of every branch. So alternatives will come into play. The conventional alternatives are well-known, such as trucked water and bottled water, which alone will surpass utility water in investment worldwide by 2034, this year in the US, and already did, for instance, in Mexico. And then, there might also be new types of alternatives, such as Source and its water produced from ambient moisture, but that Colin insists I don't call atmospheric water generation - he'll explain why in a minute. Created by Cody Friesen in 2015 and backed by no less than Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, or Jack Ma, Source usually doesn't leave anyone indifferent in the water industry. Some are very vocal about how much they doubt this approach, while others regularly endorse the company's accomplishments! Which side will you be on? I'll let you decide after you hear Colin out. But for sure, if you have a strong opinion to share on that topic, my direct messages are widely open, or you can reach out at antoine at dww dot show. I'm really curious about it! Then, regardless of your thoughts on the matter, let me remind you that if you like what you hear, you can help me tremendously by sharing that content around you. Please tell your friends, colleagues, or LinkedIn network what you found inspiring in what Colin shares today, and if you don't like what you hear, please reach out to me and tell me what I should be doing differently or better. Come on, do it, and I'll meet you on the other side. Expensive, Heavy but Desperately Needed: is Source the Drinking Water of Tomorrow?Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Piers Clark - Chairman and Founder of Isle Utilities 💧 Isle Utilities aims to bring new technologies to life by connecting expertise, investment, and inspired ideas across the globe.. What we covered: 💪 How the Water Industry could significantly impact most of the challenges our World is facing today 🧑‍🔬 How the best weapon for that impact to happen is not any of the usual suspects (regulations, restructuring, operations...) but rather an outlier: innovation! 🤔 How after evaluating 11'000 technologies and validating 1'400 of them, Isle Utilities decided to tackle the root problem: the time to adoption ⚒️ How the Trial Reservoir Isle brought to life is desperately simple, let alone incredibly brilliant ⚡ The three-step recipe that guarantees a Pilot's success in the Water Industry 📈 How the Trial Reservoir could well be adopted way beyond just the Water Sector and become the new normal in innovation 💥 How Piers's two significant career bumps sha 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Piers on LinkedIn ➡️ Visit Isle Utilities' Website ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how Isle Utilities' Trial Reservoir may turn water piloting on its head! Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Piers Clark is the Chairman and Founder of Isle Utilities. Isle aims to bring new technologies to life by connecting expertise, investment, and inspired ideas across the globe. I remember my first pilot as a young water professional. We were trying to enhance biogas production in a midsized wastewater treatment plant. To this date, I can't say if we failed. Because we indeed increased production, but yet probably not enough for the technology to be adopted. And, in fact, it wasn't. In the next years of my career, I have again been involved in many pilots. Some of them were successful enough to take me abroad to conferences and present the results, but again, I must be really bad or doomed, but none of them ever became a full scale. And I honestly never took a step back to figure out what was wrong with piloting. I can just tell it's hard by experience, but also because so many of the about one hundred guests that appeared on that microphone shared similar stories. So, when I asked Sivan Zamir, by Season 5 Episode 15, what was the most exciting project she ever got involved in, and she answered that: I had to think, gosh, that's so brilliant, simple, and desperately needed in this industry; I must find out more. And trust me, not only will we all find out more together with Piers in just a minute, but I promise you will also have a good time listening to how he colorfully deploys the story! Are you ready to turn piloting on its head? Well, while you buckle up, let me remind you that if you like what you hear, you can help me up tremendously by sharing that content around you. Please tell your friends, colleagues, or LinkedIn network what you found inspiring in what Piers shares today, and if you don't like what you hear, please reach out to me and tell me what I should be doing differently or better. Come on, do it, and I'll meet you on the other side. How will the Trial Reservoir Change Piloting Forever and For Good?Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

I know, it's the back-to-school period; you've got a lot of things on your plate, I get that, so don't worry. I won't make that special episode too long, and you'll get a fast-track update on many of the guests and companies that appeared on that microphone. Today, this podcast turns two! Two years, 222 episodes released, of which 97 were feature interviews, for a total of 105 hours on air. That's a lot of water industry, water sector, water and beyond, whatever we call it, and hopefully a lot of inspiration shots for all of us. Two years is not much on the scale of the entire sector. Yet, a lot happened for many of my former guests since they appeared on my microphone. Today you'll learn who raised the most money since the release of our common discussion, I'll share some milestones and recent projects for some of them, and I'll update you on our background drama: the story of the merger of SUEZ and Veolia. I'll also address you with a big thank you! We crossed the 50'000 downloads mark somewhen in August, for the podcast alone, and that month was also kind of historic; as for the first time, the podcast in all its shapes surpassed the 200'000 views milestone over all the platforms for August alone. So let's keep pushing all together: as always, if you like what you hear, tell it to your friends, colleagues, teachers, students, customers, suppliers, and all the ones I forget: that's how I can justify to my wife, my kids and myself, all the time I spend preparing these contents for all of us. Which I, of course, love doing as well! Season seven of the podcast starts next week with an incredible interview with Piers Clark, the founder and Chairman of Isle Utilities; I have many more inspiring conversations coming up, which I'm excited to share with you, I'll also be at the upcoming international water association's World Congress in Copenhagen next week, and then I'm heading to New York to join Sciens Water's Rethinking Water conference, where I'm looking forward meeting you! And even though I'm sometimes slow in answering, and I apologize for that, please keep sending me your feedback, suggestions, and recommendations, yes, I'm slow, but I'm always reading and answering! Again, thank you, and I'll see you next time! ➡️ Here you go to find all the (don't) Waste Water episodes Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Two Bit da Vinci is wrong when he says: "The smaller unit, the tsunami 500 can produce between 0.5 and 8 gallons per hour or up to 200 gallons per day. With the smaller unit, you'd be able to produce over 60 percent of your daily water needs or about three times your daily needs if you're single." In fact, it is non-sense to imagine covering our daily water needs with new sources of perfect drinking water, like the Tsunami unit he reviews. Because what are we using that water for? One-fourth goes to flush the toilets, another fifth is used in the shower, 17% wash our clothes, 12% simply leak out, and 8% serve a variety of additional uses. So only 19% actually flows from the tap and could eventually be drunk, even if, in fact, the average American only drinks 0.5% of that, still assuming he never goes for bottled water. The 50 Liter Home coalition actually demonstrated that we could turn those household water uses on their head and fully thrive with 50 Liters a day. So the day we all equip ourselves right, that Tsunami unit would cover the needs of 15 households! That's why, Two Bit da Vinci is wrong! 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Limiting Water to SDG 6 is restrictive. When the united nations defined its Agenda 2030 and split it down into 17 sustainable development goals, they parked "everything water" into number 6. But isn't water crucial to attaining a bunch of further goals? Isn't the lack of water a clear inhibitor to running any kind of business, hence the main obstacle to SDG 1, which is supposed to end poverty? How can you achieve Zero Hunger, aka SDG 2, if you don't have water for agriculture? How do you fulfill SDG 3 and its Good Health Target if you don't have safe water to eliminate the yearly 700'000 cases of child death by diarrhea? Can you pretend your city is sustainable according to SDG 11 if it doesn't prevent floods? Will any consumption or production be sustainable - SDG 12 - if it doesn't consider its water impacts? And finally, when we say that if climate change is a shark, water is its teeth through floods and droughts, SDG 13 and its Climate Action clearly sounds like a Water Topic. So, limiting Water to SDG6 is restrictive! 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

We focus on the wrong water! Would you drink your neighbor's pee? I'll be honest; I may well know that once fully treated, it's an absolutely safe water source; but I would still be reluctant. Indeed, whenever we discuss alternative water sources like reuse, people have a "yuck factor" as they imagine drinking it. And how would I blame them: our entire homes are fed with water of drinking quality, even if about half of it is used for flushing the toilet, watering our flower boxes, or simply silently leaking somewhere in the house. At the end of the day, we really drink less than 1% of the water we consume every day. And our homes are the smallest of the three main water consumers, as they only use about 10% of our abstractions, against 20% for industry and 70% for agriculture! That's why when we obsess over these 1% of 10%, which ultimately represent less than 0.1% of the full water cycle, we focus on the wrong water. 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

People lacking access to Water and Sanitation is an economic non-sense. How much does it cost not to have access to Water? Well, Water from a tanker costs 15x the utility averages and up to 50x more, for instance, in India. And that's still peanuts compared to bottled alternatives! Now, that's only the visible part of the iceberg. Because on the sanitation side of the problem, families without toilets at home pay to use latrines. And the open defecation alternative is even worse, as it ultimately results in increased medical bills. In their "Worth of Water" book, Gary White and Matt Damon sum up all the "coping costs" of not having access to Water and sanitation, and even by downplaying it, it reaches a yearly burden of 300 billion dollars. Meanwhile, the united nations projected the cost of solving the issue and achieving SDG 6 to "only" 114 billion dollars. So the cost of keeping people deprived of safe water and sanitation is about three times higher than the cost of granting them these basic human rights. That's why people lacking access to Water and Sanitation is an economic non-sense. Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check out my full review on SDG 6! 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Subsidies are dangerous to water! We almost never pay utility water at its real cost, and even less so in the poorest countries, where 89% of utilities don't recover their costs. So how do these utilities reach breakeven? Well, with subsidies. The problem is that these subsidies are very unevenly distributed. Of the about 450 billion dollars given out annually, 26% go to the wealthiest 20% and only 6% to the poorest 20%. Said differently, the richer you are, the more public money you'll get. And those water subsidies are a different burden, depending on the country's prosperity. For rich countries, it represents 0.06% of their GDP, while for low-income ones, it hovers around 2%. When something becomes that expensive, you start looking for ways to discreetly cut costs: that's how wastewater treatment always gets underfunded. The thing is that if utilities can't reach full cost recovery, their service quality will lower. And don't worry, the richest will always be able to afford to switch to point-of-use treatments or bottled water. But the poorest will suffer even more... See: subsidies are dangerous to water! Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check out my conversation with David Lloyd Owen about the best and worst ways to achieve SDG 6 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

There's so much better to do with your pee! Feeding 7.8 billion humans requires a lot of fertilizers, and all types combined, nitrogen fertilizers are the ones that experience the fastest growth. In 2021, their usage reached 110 million tons worldwide! This is actually an environmental problem. Because producing these fertilizers involves a lot of blackish hydrogen, which has a huge carbon impact. The good news is that humans used to know how to grow their crops without using synthetic fertilizers. And we could return to these practices while giving them a modern twist to target a win-win. Indeed, there's a lot of nitrogen in our wastewater treatment plants, and 90% of it comes from urine. Separating urine from sewage would allow tapping into it while drastically simplifying wastewater treatment - a welcome side-effect. And as urine also contains phosphorus, potassium, Chloride, Sodium, Magnesium, Copper, and other organic and inorganic compounds, it would be a perfect fit for plant growth. As I said, there's so much better to do with your pee! 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

We could solve thirst on earth by breaking all the banking rules! How do banks decide to grant you a loan? Well, they check your background and how much you own and earn. As a result, banks don't lend money to the poorest people as they never pass their screening process. Most of the poorest people on earth also belong to the 2 billion humans that lack access to safe drinking water. But here's the thing: as long as you don't have access to water, you're literally trapped in poverty. To escape it, you need money to equip yourself with a pump, a well, or a tap. And as we've seen, banks will never grant you a loan. That's where Water.org kicks in, with their microcredit approach called Water Credit. Without any background check or caution, they lend money to these people that traditional approaches left aside. And not only does it drastically better their life, Water.org's also reports a 99% payback of their loans! A sign that we could solve thirst on earth by breaking all the banking rules! Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check out my exploration of the Problem with Water Charities. 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

SAUR multiplied its industrial revenue by twenty in three years. Two of the three largest water companies in the World are french: Veolia and Suez. So, for SAUR being the "French 3rd guy" is like being a small fish in a shark tank. In that context, where making a dent is pretty challenging, SAUR had to differentiate. Hence, since starting up in 1933, SAUR had always bet on municipal water. And that's why they build and operate mostly municipal water and wastewater treatment plants across 20 countries. Yet, with water scarcity on the rise, the industrial segment is the fastest growing piece of the water sector's cake. So how do you react when you apparently bet on the wrong horse? Well, in 2018, the Swedish investment fund EQT acquired SAUR with a plan. In five years, they would transform the company to surf the industrial wave! They warmed up in 2020 by buying Unidro and Econvert, before their main move with the acquisition of Nijhuis, which would become their industrial flagship. Many more moves followed with the acquisition of Veolia's mobile fleet, of Flootech, Aqua-Chem, Sodai, Biosys Group, PWNT, and Nortech. And this is how SAUR multiplied its industrial revenue by twenty in three years. Wanna dive deeper into the topic? I discussed this (and much more) with Menno Holtermann, the CEO of Nijhuis Saur Industries! 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Air and Sun: that's all you need to pour your next glass of water! By 2025, two-thirds of the World's population may be facing water shortages. And where do you take your water from when there's no water left? One solution may be to truck it from places that are richer in water. Or to bottle it. Two solutions that are expensive and hardly sustainable. So are we doomed? Well, I'd say it's time to become creative! Indeed, the hotter the atmosphere becomes, the more water it can hold as moisture. As we speak, there's about two times the Geneva Lake's worth of water floating around us! To tap into it, there's a wide array of technical solutions, most of it involving electricity, wind, or fog. But even if you're in the middle of nowhere and fully off-grid, there are still solutions at hand, like Source's hydropanel, which ambitions to become the cheapest source of water on earth. All of that, by leveraging only Air and Sun: that's all you need to pour your next glass of water! Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check out my conversation with Navkaran Singh Bagga, CEO, and founder of AKVO, on atmospheric water generation . (... and stay tuned for Season 7 of the podcast, where we will feature Source Global 😉) 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Death by Piloting may finally be history! Why is establishing a new technology in the Water Industry beyond difficult? Well, if a water utility delivers polluted water to your tap, you may die! That makes for a risk-averse mentality where everybody wants to be first to be second. Indeed, water professionals are well aware that Modern Problems require Modern Solutions, yet, they want those solutions to prove their worth in every new field, every time. As a result, young companies run pilots for months, only to be left afterward in a no man's land where at best, they get a new pilot opportunity. No jokes, these pilot series can actually last decades! That's where Isle Utilities just triggered a revolution. They established a Trial Reservoir, that funds pilot tests against the engagement before the study even starts, that if the objectives are met, the technology will go full scale. And thanks to those clear rules, solid funding reinforced by partners like Xylem, Metito, or PureTerra Ventures, and the certainty that all the relevant stakeholders were around the table before even starting, death by piloting may finally be over! 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Your poop says a lot about you! Every zombie movie starts the same. One infected person acts as if everything is just fine: "I'm coughing blood? Nah, let me hide it, pretend I'm fine and go hug thousands of people in a football arena!" But is it only fiction? We've seen it with CoVid: there's objectively not much you can do to detect a disease's outbreak unless people voluntarily get tested, assuming they acknowledge soon enough that they're sick! And still, we've also seen with CoVid, that if we had looked at the right place at the right time, we would have noticed infection spikes weeks before they became visible in hospitals. How? Well, by sampling our wastewater. When we're infected, viruses also travel to our pee and poo. And sewage networks are among the few links that bring large groups together. Investigating those places is called wastewater-based epidemiology, and it was widely adopted throughout the recent pandemic, sometimes even influencing some government policies. Would it detect zombie cases? I don't know, but for sure: your poop says a lot about you. 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Green Algae will become your best friends! Wastewater treatment's workhorse, the activated sludge process, was invented in 1914, and he looks his age, honestly. Sure, it's an effective way to clean wastewater, but it involves a lot of energy: the needed blowers alone account for about 4% of our energy use! This makes for the substantial carbon impact of wastewater treatment, well, this and the various gases this open-air process releases, ranging from nitrous oxides to methane. But what if we skipped wastewater treatment altogether and directly rejected raw wastewater into rivers? That would probably kill a lot of the beautiful ecosystems we know but would also trigger green algae blooms. Those are clearly a sign of bad shape when noticed in nature. But what if we could domesticate them and harness their power? Well, we would have a treatment process that needs tremendously less energy to operate, that can be leveraged to produce biogas and be at least carbon neutral, if not positive. See, I told you that Green Algae will become your Best Friends! Wanna dive deeper? Check out my full conversation with Cesar Narvaez, CEO and Founder of NXO Engineering! 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

We should protect our blood from PFAS. In 2015, the US Government commissioned a study to measure the population's exposure to PFAS. The results were chilling: 97% of Americans had PFAS in their blood, a proportion that was later confirmed by many more studies around the globe. Doesn't it have health consequences to have Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in our blood? Spoiler: it does. A study by the nordic council of ministers focused on only four of the about five thousand PFAS to determine their health impact for, again, a chilling result. They calculated that those four substances alone were responsible for 110€ per European inhabitant and per year in additional health costs. Now the good news is, that usually the water industry is pretty innovative when it comes to solving a riddle such as how to remove PFAS from water. This is why, from coated membranes to supercritical water oxidation through reverse osmosis, many processes emerge to take on the challenge. So how do we take these technologies to the bigger scale and, ultimately, everyone? Because we should protect our blood from PFAS! Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check out my conversation with Henrik Hagemann, CEO, and Founder of Puraffinity 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

We should all start running for water. Zero Carbon, that's a mantra we all heard, and we all can rely upon. Well, international gatherings and global conversations are no different: everybody's heard of Carbon and climate change. That's great! But meanwhile, water is always forgotten from those same conversations. Though how do people experience climate change? Well, through floods when there's an extreme weather event, droughts when we're on the other side of that same coin, and pollution when displaced people don't find safe access to water. In a nutshell, through water. This is why the Run Blue movement led by Mina Guli rallies to get everyone on board, starting with the companies that abstract about 90% of the water on earth. They can commit to running their operations blue, and we can all support them in doing so by reminding them how much we value our water. Like Mina Guli, who ran one hundred marathons in one hundred days to raise awareness, we should all start running for water! Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check my full conversation with Mina Guli on the progress towards SDG 6 and how to speed things up! 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

California could save 580 million dollars with one simple move! In fact, California adopted the sustainable groundwater management act in 2014. But don't worry, it won't be enforced before 2040. This means that meanwhile, you can still pump groundwater for free despite obvious proof that water scarcity hits tremendously harder year on year. Yet, the district of Coachella proved another way to be possible without waiting for 2040. They introduced localized groundwater tariffs and leveraged the money thus collected to finance wastewater reuse programs for groundwater recharge. Generalizing that approach would already mean a lot for sustainability! Yet we could go one step further by introducing groundwater trading. In a recent study, Ellen Bruno proved the price elasticity of water demand to be sufficiently different between urban and rural uses for trading to be efficient. Trading could hence refine the edges of water allocations to ensure water always flows to its best use, and that's how California could save $580 million with one simple move! Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check out my conversation with Ellen Bruno on the perks of Groundwater Trading! 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Water is a powerful weirdo beyond 374 degrees Water is the solvent for life. Beyond the statement, this is a chemical truth: water dissolves a variety of molecules, most of the time for the better. The problem is that it also tends to dissolve a lot of pollutants, which turns wastewater treatment operators crazy when, in turn, they have to separate water from these pollutants. Now there's good news for them: at 374 degrees and 221 bars, water reaches its critical point. And when it goes beyond that, it totally switches its behavior! Supercritical water, for instance, rejects salts and minerals that precipitate; and now dissolves organics. This means that you can also easily dissolve oxygen to trigger a single-phase oxidation that cleans up water in minutes. And guess what, that reaction is exothermic, which means it produces heat that you can recover to turn your process energy positive. That's called supercritical water oxidation, and it proves that water is a powerful weirdo beyond 374 degrees! Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check out my conversation with Kobe Nagar, CEO and Co-Founder of 374Water. 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

There are 320 Nuclear Power Plants in our Sewers Wastewater contains at least seven times the energy needed to clean it. Said differently, what we call "pollution" is, in fact, a type of chemical energy we struggle to tap into. The point where it becomes utterly stupid is that we pour a lot of energy into treatment processes to destroy that said chemical energy. If you take the blowers alone, you know the ones that turn biological basins into brown jacuzzis; they account for about four percent of our energy use. So if we managed to tap into the chemical energy of wastewater, we would first save that blowing energy and then start being energy positive, turning treatment plants into power stations, which - and it doesn't harm - would be at least carbon neutral. And that's not science-fiction! With technologies like Microbial Fuel - or Electrolysis Cells, or Supercritical Water Oxidation, we could shift the paradigm, and this already today. And if we do so, we'll swiftly realize that there are 320 nuclear power reactors in our sewers! Wanna dive deeper into the topic? I reviewed how Wastewater is Liquid Energy! 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The greenest Hydrogen is Turquoise. Hydrogen is not the sustainable gas you probably think it is. Today, 98.7% of the hydrogen used in the World is produced from fossil fuels without carbon capture. This means it would have exactly the same carbon impact as the coal or gas it's made of... Well if production processes were 100% sealed and reliable, which they're not. In fact, today, hydrogen is not a decarbonization tool; it's a decarbonization problem! To solve it, a colorful array of hydrogens intend to replace the traditional blackish one. We have, for instance, blue, which captures the carbon, or green which removes carbon from the equation by producing hydrogen from water. The problem is that thermodynamics is quite bitchy, and it decided that this process would always be more expensive. Bad, bad physics! But there's a last color that could save the day: turquoise. It leverages pyrolysis of methane to produce hydrogen and graphite and can even be conducted directly on wastewater treatment plants. See, I'm not colorblind, in fact, the greenest hydrogen is turquoise! Wanna dive deeper into the topic? I prepared you a deep dive on hydrogen from a water industry perspective right here! 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Too much of our best water disappears underground. Every year, the World loses about one hundred twenty-six billion cubic meters of perfect drinking water in network leakages. That's one Olympic swimming pool that disappears every ten minutes, all year long! Sure, that's a waste of water. But it's also an energy disaster, as we treat, refine, polish and pump that water only for it to vanish somewhere underground. And maybe worse, when water leaks out of the pipe, what kind of pollutants can leak in? The good news is that we have a full toolbox to tackle this problem. First, we can balance the pressure on the network to reduce the stress on pipes, increase their lifetime, and slow leaks down. Then, we can track those leaks and fix them while doing so is still affordable. And finally, we can revolutionize the way we manage networks by leveraging data, fixing things just in time, and entering the realm of preventive maintenance. Trust me; it's about time because too much of our best water disappears underground. Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check out: ➡️ My conversation with Olivier Narbey about Non-Revenue Water ➡️ Victoria Edward's masterclass on data-as-a-service to detect network leaks 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Your poop can trigger desalination. Reverse Osmosis is an energy-intensive process. Now, to be fair to the workhorse of seawater desalination, it's gone a long way since its first commercial applications in the seventies. The first plants maybe needed twenty kilowatt-hours to desalinate one cubic meter of water, but half a century later, this number was divided by ten. Yet, this decrease will soon meet the limits of thermodynamics, which are set at one kilowatt-hour per cubic meter. Meanwhile, at the other end of the water cycle, a different plant has the opposite problem. Without any appropriate tool to tap into it, the chemical energy of wastewater is considered to be pollution and requires even more energy to clean. But what if I told you that there's a technology that can solve both challenges in one pass? Indeed, Microbial Desalination Cells turn the organic pollution of wastewater into an electric current that attracts the salts out of the water. Today, the technology is already able to desalinate brackish water. Give it a bit more time to mature, and you'll see that your poop can trigger desalination! 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

MM Clear is dangerous. Roughly one-half of MM Clear channel's 600 videos feature a miracle product that turns any water into perfect drinking water. That's what they claim, but you'll never see them drinking it. Why? Well, let's look at the technology they present. We see that it's powered by a pump that raises water to, let's say, 3 meters, so at a pressure of 0.3 bars. That's the entry range of microfiltration, which is confirmed by the look and feel we have in the videos where they open up the barrel. In every closing scene, they present the raw water and the supposedly clean one. The visual difference is spectacular! Indeed, microfiltration removes sand, mud, colloids, and macromolecules. In a nutshell, whatever is visible. But there's a problem: bacteria and viruses freely float through the membrane. And those are the ones responsible for 2.5 billion cases of diarrhea in children under the age of five every year in the World, with one child dying every 40 seconds. So when I see the alarming amount of comments from people that desperately want to buy that miracle product, I can't help but think that MM Clear is Dangerous! 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

It's time to hold a 1977 promise! In 2021, 2 billion people lacked access to safely managed drinking water. But how can it be when you know that, in march 1977, the United Nations held a conference in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and they pledged to bring water to all? And that wasn't a one-off. The entire eighties were named the water decade. And then again, the millennium development goals set the target to bring water to all by 2015, and here we are in 2021, with 26% of humanity still left aside. To be fair, over that period, 2.8 billion people gained access to drinking water. But the World's population also grew by - guess how much - 2.8 billion people. The new horizon now is 2030. And promised, swore, spat, this time we'll make it! And still, we're running at a quarter of the speed we should... Does it mean, it's impossible? Well, providing every human with safe drinking water requires a 43.1 billion dollars investment every year between now and 2030. That's about one-tenth of the subsidies the World provides to the fossil fuel industry. So honestly, I think it's time to hold a 1977 promise! Wanna dive deeper into the topic, check out my conversation with David Lloyd Owen, the author of Global Water Funding. You'll also find everything you'd like to know about SDG6 right here. 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ Website: https://dww.show/podcast/ Smartlink: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwwpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoineWalter7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontWasteWaterPodcastHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.