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

Ceramic Membranes may take over the market by storm. When membranes became mainstream in the late nineties, ceramic players already existed in niches such as Oil & Gas. But no one would have ever thought of applying the technology in water applications. At ten thousand dollars per square meter, ceramic membranes were not only prohibitively costly but also fifty to five hundred times more expensive than polymerics. To worsen the picture, plant designs were done in copy-paste from polymerics to ceramics, which did not leverage the advantages of the technology. Because indeed, ceramic membranes have perks! They are said to be more robust, can handle higher solids loading, withstand more aggressive cleanings and higher temperatures while guaranteeing a longer lifetime with fewer membrane failures. So, when manufacturing progress divided their cost by four over a decade, early adopters gave it a try. And the more early adopters there were, the bigger the scale effects, which in turn kept dragging the costs down and feeding the virtuous circle. Today, ceramics still represent only 2% of the market, but with tumbling prices... Ceramic membranes may take over the market by storm! Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check out: S4E10 with Sebastian Andreassen, CCO, and Co-Founder of Cembrane S2E2 with Haris Kadrispahic, Head of Innovation at Liqtech 🎙️ 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.

Bacteria can update your calendar! As a wastewater operator, you have no control over what comes into your system. So regularly, a sudden gap in wastewater's content causes your bacteria to be upset, resulting at best in some drops in treatment efficiency. And at worst, in long-lasting issues, until they recover... Indeed, it would incredibly ease up plant operation if bacteria could talk! Well, if you use the right technology, they actually can. In a microbial fuel cell, bacteria live on the anode where they break down organic pollution. As a result of this process, they breathe electricity that travels to the cathode. So, if you monitor this electrical current closely, you have a 24/7 precise monitoring of your bacteria, turning them into a biosensor. That's how they can tell you about effluent changes, upsets, and even predictive maintenance of your hardware. And if you equip them with the right piece of software, as MICROrganic Technologies does, they can even reach out to you in unexpected places. Indeed, that's how bacteria can update your calendar! 🎙️ 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.

Deep Ocean can desalinate water. To push seawater through a reverse osmosis system, you need to pump it up to a pressure of about 60 bars. That's roughly 20 times more than the pressure we get at the tap, and of course, it gobbles a lot of energy. But energy is not the only source of expenses when you operate a desalination system. You also have to cope with the membrane's degradation over time and its clogging under the effect of biofouling. That phenomenon is caused by the micro-organisms, which are quite present in the coastal areas where desalination plants place their water intake. Now there's a place where you naturally find the 60 bars of pressure you're looking for: that's 600 meters under sea level. And, welcome side-effect, down there, water is of much better quality with much fewer micro-organisms. So if you sink your desalination skid at these depths like what Waterise does, you actually kill two birds with one stone. Hence, the Norwegian company expects to reduce desalination's energy requirements by 50% while also reducing the footprint needed on-shore. And that's how, indeed, deep ocean can desalinate 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.

We burn far too much wastewater! The industry represents roughly 20% of the World's water abstractions. And sometimes, that water gets exposed to a wide array of complex pollutants, hence transforming into wastewater that's hard to treat. What would you do if you were an industrial whose core business and competencies have nothing to do with the treatment of those substances? Well, you'd go for the path of least resistance which is, believe it or not, to burn these complex wastewaters. Now, you don't find incinerators for that purpose in every city, so sometimes, on top of burning water which is incredibly inefficient, that water travels distances and takes boats and trucks on the way. The thing is that every wastewater has its treatment like Cinderella has her glass slipper! You just need dedicated experts for that. That's how companies like Inopsys or Axine turn that treatment into a service, take over the liabilities, make it in a much more sustainable fashion, and often even for cheaper. Once you know that, don't you think that we burn too much wastewater? Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Here are two interesting follow-ons listens: S4E12 with Steven De Laet (the CEO of InOpSys) S4E16 with Jonathan Rhone (the former CEO of Axine) 🎙️ 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 need to give our pee a second life! By 2030, we will miss 40% of the water we need to reach an equilibrium. This means we whether accept our fate and dry out or try to find that missing water in the next decade. You don't want to dry out? Me neither, so what can we do? Suppose we solve the problem the conventional way. In that case, it will cost the World about two thousand billion dollars to refurbish existing infrastructure and another four thousand billion dollars to build new ones. That makes for a six thousand billion dollar bill or about twenty-four Elon Musks. To reduce the bill, it's about time to become creative and efficient. In our wastewater treatment plants, we clean water up to high environmental standards. And then what do we do? We flush it away! With just one more polishing step, that water could be perfectly fit for a wide variety of purposes, from industrial applications to irrigation. Used right, wastewater reuse could cover 10% of the World's water needs, which would already solve a significant portion of the problem! See, we need to give our pee a second life! Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check out my live show with Vincent Caillaud, CEO of Veolia Water Technologies, and Reinhard Hübner, CEO of SKion 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.

I'll kill them all Wait, don't worry, that's good news! What we call wastewater sludge is, in fact, a concentration of microbial cell mass. To picture it, imagine a herd of micro-organisms, tired of having eaten a lot of organic matter and resting together in a mud-like aggregate. Now, that mud can be valorized and turned both into biosolids you'll transform into fertilizer and biogas that can be used as a one-to-one replacement to fossil methane. The problem in both cases is that these micro-organisms don't really want to cooperate spontaneously with you. My Precious! As a result, your biogas production yield can be pretty low, and your output matter is still very watery, which involves more hassle to transport it out. That's where thermal hydrolysis jumps in for the save! It takes the sludge through a 3-step process where you heat it, then pressurize it and suddenly depressurize it. Our rebellious micro-organisms don't appreciate that effort, and as a result, they tend to explode. This frees the carbon and water they held back, increasing the biogas production yield by up to 50% while halving the biosolids volume at the outlet of the sludge digester. More energy, better waste, a win-win that will make you say: I'll kill them all! Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check out my full conversation with Eirik Fadnes, the CEO of Cambi - the World Leader in Thermal Hydrolysis Processes 🎙️ 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.

Waves can desalinate water! About one out of five people living in the Mediterranean area suffer from constant water stress. That's representative of the challenge remote and decentralized places face in the new realm of water scarcity. At the same time, the World is urbanizing fast. By 2050, two-thirds of humanity will live in cities, and we will build the equivalent of New York City every month until then to cope with that revolution. As a consequence, remote areas will become even less of a priority when it comes to water production and management. So to help these communities, you need to solve the following equation. Find a way to desalinate water without large-scale investment and with as little energy impact as possible. Impossible? Not if you leverage nature! Addressed right, waves can act as a fuel to pump water through a reverse osmosis process, whether directly or through an energy converter. And if several companies develop different variations of this concept, they all have two significant benefits in common. They avoid the carbon emissions a diesel-powered alternative would have generated. And they reduce these remote areas' water stress. As you see, waves can desalinate 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.

It's time to refurbish your basement! When a water or wastewater network pipe is laid, it is supposed to last a couple of centuries. When you think of it, two centuries ago, only two cities in the world exceeded one million inhabitants: London and Beijing. Fast forward to 2022: 512 cities exceed the million mark. Surprise, surprise, we outgrew our water networks. So what shall we do? Open all our roads and start over again with twice bigger pipes? I'm pretty sure no one wants that. When you think of it, those central networks are somewhat weird. They deliver drinking water, that we then use at 99% for other appliances than drinking it. That's given by design: water fit for purpose is not affordable at a large scale, but on the scale of a building, the picture fully flips. We could give water 4, 5, or 10 lives by running it in clever circles where we drink it only once but use it to flush, wash, rinse or irrigate several times more, thanks to a wastewater reuse unit cleverly placed in the cellar. See, it's time to refurbish your basement! Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check out my discussion with Aaron Tartakovsky, CEO and Co-Founder of Epic Cleantec. 🎙️ 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.

A crazily expensive 1-step unit is the future of wastewater treatment. In the early eighties, Andrew Benedek had a vision. One day, the World would need to reuse its wastewater and have the right tools to do so. And what better than a membrane could guarantee a safe and constant outcome for the treatment he aimed to develop? Andrew was convinced of it: membrane bioreactors would become a go-to. Yet, at that time, membranes were so costly that no one wanted to use them, not even for drinking water applications. So before implementing them to sort our pee and poo, there was a long way to go... Yet, in the middle of the nineties, several bacterial outbreaks turned the use of membranes into an unavoidable luxury. As a result, because of scale effects, membrane prices tumbled, and they became mainstream. In turn, rid of their main drawback, membrane bioreactors established themselves as the reference solution. After a two-decade journey through the desert, Zenon, Andrew's company, became the hottest prospect in the Water Industry. And everyone acknowledged that nothing is more powerful than an Idea whose time has come! Andrew Benedek was right: Wanna dive deeper into the story? Check out my full interview with Andrew Benedek 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.

What used to be garbage is now a treasure! The world needs to find 500'000 tons of Lithium per year to cope with the galloping growth in electric vehicles. Even God - sorry, Elon Musk - acknowledged that we're swiftly running into problems. Over the last year, Lithium prices rose by 500%, so that nowadays, this increase alone costs about 1'000 dollars for every Tesla. Yet, the two conventional lithium production processes face major constraints. Salt lakes need two years of evaporation, and conventional mining requires about 70'000 liters of water to produce one ton of Lithium. Fun fact: those mines are often to be found in deserts. The good news is that, ultimately, lithium production is a water question and that the water industry is full of resources. Indeed, by leveraging membrane and ion exchange processes, companies like Saltworks create a third path: Lithium extraction from brines. Bonus point: this process also has the good taste to enhance the yield and the sustainability of the two others! Remember how brines used to be garbage? Well... What used to be garbage is now a treasure! Wanna dive deeper into this #WaterIndustry story? Check out my in-depth investigation with Benjamin Sparrow, the CEO of Saltworks. 🎙️ 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.

Hallo, Bonjour, and Welcome to this special Don't Waste Water podcast season! We're in the middle of a hot summer, and whether you're enjoying the beach, your friends and family, or keeping the boat afloat in the office, I'd like to bring you value in a crisp and snappy fashion. So, for the next 30 days, I'll be running a series I called "Don't Waste Summer" that will light a new topic every day in just one minute. Some of these topics were already covered in a different fashion on this microphone; some are brand new and could be future deep dives if they are of interest to you! I hope you'll enjoy these 30 little nuggets; in case you do, please share them around you, and in any case, I'm always happy to hear from you; drop me a message on LinkedIn or via email: [email protected]. And don't worry, I have awesome interviews in the pipe for season 6 of the podcast, which will air in September; I just was in a mood for experiments during my paternity break this summer. I leave you with Episode one, that's released just next to this one and is called the Problem with Lithium. See you over there! 🎙️ 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/DontWasteWaterPodcast Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Carol Maxwell - CEO & Director of MICROrganic Technologies and a Founding Member of ENYA Funds 1, 2, &3 with 🎙️ Brent Solina - CTO of MICROrganic Technologies 💧 MICROrganic Technologies builds a Microbial Fuel Cell platform that aims to change the way the world deals with wastewater What we covered: 📅 How Microbial Fuel Cells open a new paradigm in plant operation - the era of bacteria that can communicate and interact with your Google Calendar 🧑‍🔬 How limited we are today, with our chemical tests and lab analysis 🤔 How we don't know much about the root cause of most of the upsets a wastewater treatment system encounters ⚒️ How Microbial Fuel Cells work and how their core characteristics trigger the operation opportunity we just described ⚡ How wastewater treatment blowers represent 3-5% of the US's energy use and how microbial fuel cells could enable turning them down 📉 How microbial fuel cells could represent an overall decrease of 85-90% in energy use 📈 How beyond today's benefits of microbial fuel cells, there's even more to come tomorrow with for instance microbial desalination cells 🌱 How MICROrganic Technologies' VIVA modular series could be the fundamental brick for those future applications 0️⃣ How it all boils down to a fundamental feature of Microbial Fuel Cells: they set the path for a decarbonized wastewater treatment 🚀 How MICROrganic interacts with companies and acceleration programs the like of Xylem's Innovation Labs 💪 How anybody can take off a start-up, assuming you’re creative enough and push hard enough. 🤝 How you can learn sales and marketing the hard way, and how that’s beneficial to aspiring entrepreneurs. 🏭 How the bottleneck to turn MFCs into a large-scale solution lies on the cathode’s hardware - and how MICROrganic strives to solve it. 🔋 How building an MFC is very close to making a battery - just with additional constraints, using wastewater as a fuel 🔼🔽 How large and small plants have different challenges and how that reflects in their KPIs. 🪜 How MICROrganic’s product works yet isn’t fully ready for commercialization - and what the next steps are. 💩 Wastewater being liquid composting, wastewater containing 7x the energy needed to treat it, VIVA being the size of a refrigerator, MFCs powering predictive maintenance and potentially decentralized systems, VIVA being a kind of biosensor... and much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Carol on LinkedIn ➡️ Make sure to also reach out to Brent over there ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how Microbial Fuel Cells can turn plant operation on its head!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 Carol Maxwell and Brent Solina as my guests! Carol and Brent are, respectively, CEO and CTO of MICROrganic Technologies. MICROrganic builds a Microbial Fuel Cell platform that aims to change the way the world deals with wastewater. Wastewater is a fascinating substance! If you're a regular listener of that podcast, you've heard me telling how it theoretically contains about seven-time the energy needed to treat it. Now, the way we deal with it today is the total opposite: we're spending huge amounts of energy to destroy that chemical potential of sewage. How huge, you ask? Well, as Brent will share in a minute, we're talking of about 4% of the US's energy use that's employed in the blowers that turn biological basins into the brown jacuzzis we all know. Does it work? Yes. Is it energetically optimized? Of course not! But if we're honest, it's still the best way to deal with wastewater that we have at hand today. The good news is that this could soon be history. Brilliant minds and entrepreneurs are at work to correct the incongruity of spending carbon-intensive energy to destroy energy. Microbial Fuel Cells, for instance, could decrease the energy needs of wastewater treatment plants by 85 to 90%! And that's maybe still not the most promising of their features. Yes, they produce a clean DC electrical output. Yes, they're modular and adapted to basically any kind of wastewater. But even better, they could drastically ease up the operation of plants. I won't spoil you the full explanation because Carol and Brent will do that much better than me in a minute, but let me tease you with that. Whenever your bacteria are upset because of sudden condition changes or a piece of dysfunctional equipment, they can put a reminder on your calendar. Think of that: no forensics anymore to understand what could be wrong with that complex treatment system, or even worse, what was punctually wrong and disappeared now that you're physically back on the plant. Bacteria can talk. How cool is that? By now, you're probably as hyped as me, so I'll stop talking and let you dive into the fascinating world of microbial fuel cells with Carol and Brent. Right before, let me remind you that if you like what you hear, you can help me out tremendously by sharing that content around you. Please tell your friends, colleagues, or LinkedIn network what you learned of found inspiring in what Brent and Carol share 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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Nicola Lei Ravello - Author and Founder of White Stag Investing 💧 White Stag Investing is a research platform for responsible investments, focusing on sustainability as a source of value and stability in the long term. What we covered: 🌎 How the interaction between Water and the World as we know it relies on a fragile equilibrium 🚰 How our whole economy builds upon a steady supply of water and how it could turn into an economic risk if it was to get disrupted 🌊 How with Climate Change unfortunately here to stay, events of too little or too much water will multiply and what it involves ⏰ How the acknowledgment of the economic risk of water is still embryonic and how stakeholders and decision makers may click too late 💸 How mitigating the economic risk of water is fully doable, yet can be quite expensive 📊 Why market forces can play their role to better value water and how 📈 How we rely on probabilities and data to engineer our infrastructure as well as our financial portfolios and how the new unknowns create a new wave of risks 🌱 How the world's economic risk is also a business opportunity for the Water Industry - and what we shall do to leverage it 5️⃣ How there are five shades of investing in sustainability and what they are 🔁 How ESG approaches change the way many finance players do their job 🔥 How humanity has built its wealth around water in all its forms and how that may soon backfire 🤖 How new technologies can have an effect at a planetary scale and what it involves in our approaches to it 🛥️ How there's a relationship between building a ship and crossing the Atlantic as a Viking and modern investment approaches ⚠️ Industries that are the most exposed to water risks, the available tools to measure it, the finance scene rapidly evolving, water wars and manufacturing peace, water from an indigenous perspective, making balanced investment decisions in an uncertain world, writing, educating… and much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Come say hi to Nicola on LinkedIn ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on How the right investment strategy can help mitigate water's economic risk ! Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Nicola Lei Ravello is the Founder of White Stag Investing and the author of stories in #water, #sustainability, and #investing. White Stag Investing is a research platform for responsible investments, focusing on sustainability as a source of value and stability in the long term. Water could be anecdotal in an investment strategy. After all, as a sector, it weights less than 1% of the World's GDP. So, at first sight, it sounds like a topic for the most convinced impact investors. Yet, on the second look, water is on the critical path for many other sectors. Indeed, which industry can boast of being able to run without water? Which building can deem to be entirely safe from any flooding or extreme climate event? And that still totally skips all the sectors that rely on water's quality for their finished good. All of a sudden, water becomes much less anecdotal: it rather becomes a direct and indirect economic risk. And this turns it, as a matter of fact, into an interesting field to investigate, for investors, analysts, and asset managers. Now, if we look at the other side of the coin, there's a great opportunity for the water industry to understand the implications of that economic story. That's what differentiates between water and wastewater treatment being as a cost to be in business and the same players being solution providers that secure a sector's future. Shall we explore it? 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 learned of found inspiring in what Nicola 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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Scott Bryan - President of Imagine H2O 💧 Imagine H2O is the world leading Water Innovation Accelerator with $800+M raised in early-stage funding and 1.1 billion people (and counting) served. What we covered: 🌎 How Imagine H2O's Alumni network now extends to 168 portfolio companies in 20 countries 🚀 How Imagine H2O launched in 2008, creating the water innovation accelerator concept from scratch 💡 How the organization's concept first was a Business Model contest, how it pivoted from there, and why 🛣️ How Imagine H2O swiftly realized that to accelerate water technologies they had to work on water technology adoption 💸 How only 1% of climate tech venture investments flow to water today and why it is problematic 🪣 How Imagine H2O's non-profit business model works, and who the organization partners with to maximize its impact 🤝 How market competitors can incredibly work together to take new solutions off the ground 🌱 How entrepreneurs entering from other sectors bring a breath of fresh air and how fun it is to work with them 😵 How sometimes, entrepreneurs hang around a little longer than they should in the Water Industry 🤑 How some valuations we currently see in the Water Sector can be detrimental to both the founder and the investor 💥 How the booming accelerator playground offers incredible resources for entrepreneurs while also reaching some boundaries 🎯 Focus being the name of the game, the criterion to work with Imagine H2O, the most important thing to look at as a water entrepreneur, water as a global opportunity and a local market, scaling up, building for the long-term… and much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Come say hi to Scott on LinkedIn ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on How Imagine H2O became the World's leading water innovation accelerator ➡️ Check the stories of Imagine H2O's alumni we shared on this microphone: 🎙️ Aquacycl (S1E20) 🎙️ StormHarvester (S2E11) 🎙️ 120Water (S3E1) 🎙️ Puraffinity (S4E1) 🎙️ Epic Cleantec (S4E3) 🎙️ Typhon Treatment (S4E9)Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Scott Bryan is the President and First employee of Imagine H2O. Imagine H2O is the leading water innovation accelerator and ecosystem for water, empowering people to develop and deploy innovation to solve water challenges globally. There are some common traits among the about one hundred guests that appeared on that microphone. I could name their grit, their passion for water, or their generosity when it comes to sharing their wisdom. But beyond all of that, there's a common agreement that in the light of the challenges our World has to face, we need innovation and new technologies to support our Water projects. The problem is that usually, the next sentence, once you've said innovation is needed, is to remind everyone of how difficult it is to promote a new tech in the Water Industry - not to say barely impossible. This is why we need exceptional support for that technology to strive in a hopefully near future. Nowadays, that support can come in many shapes, and we just explored one of those last week with John Robinson and his Mazarine Ventures impact investing approach. Yet so far, I had somehow missed the elephant in the room in that podcast series: the historical and first player on that stage, which is, you would have guessed, Imagine H2O. In a minute, Scott will reveal how Imagine H2O came to life, how it pivoted over time, how it further developed with its additional paths, and what's in it for the future while reviewing its not-for-profit approach - quite unique for a Water Innovation Accelerator . Yet, the fascinating element here, in my humble opinion, is how an entire industry forgets for a minute who's competing with whom to dedicate to growing the new wonder kids. Some of the Imagine H2O's alumni may sound familiar to the most loyal listeners, like Typhon Treatment , Puraffinity , StormHarvester , Aquacycl , 120Water , or Epic CleanTec , and if you missed one of these stories, I'll link them in the show notes. Are you ready to hear about a different future for Water? 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 Scott 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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ John Robinson - Partner & Co-Founder at Mazarine Ventures 💧 Mazarine is an impact investor backing young technology companies with innovations that address some aspects of water risk, including quality and quantity. What we covered: 🌊 How Quality and Quantity of Water represent increased risks across the industrial and municipal value chains 🧮 How the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework is a potent way to rank and evaluate a company's impact 🤝 How Mazarine Ventures builds upon four lanes: Labs, Fund I, Fund II and Bluehouse 💰 How Funding mechanisms evolve from one Lane to another and why 🌍 How exiting from an investment is not only a financial milestone but also an opportunity to have an impact 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 How there are four types of capital: human, social, intellectual, and financial, and what the most important is in the early stages of a water company 👨‍🚀 How Mazarine Ventures looks for start-up founders that have been to the future and came back 📈 How the real challenge for companies Mazarine backs is not to create a product but to get it to the market 🟢 What an evergreen fund is, how it works and why it was the right fit for Fund I companies 💪 How all parameters play in Mazarine’s decision to invest, but the quality of the founder’s insight trumps it all 🧩 How the chemistry between the impact investor and the early-stage company is key to assembling the puzzle pieces 🌱 How Fund II and Labs were built out of frustration to not fitting promising concepts into Fund I ☑️ How many investors just check the “water box” and move on - and what consequences it has 🚀 Capital-light innovations, IoT, the biggest risks as an early-stage impact investor, passing of the baton as a start-up founder, having a convincing grasp of the customer... and much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Come say hi to John on LinkedIn ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on How Impact Investment can Mitigate Water Risk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

John is a Partner and Co-Founder of Mazarine Ventures. Mazarine is an impact investor backing young technology companies with innovations that address some aspects of water risk, including quality and quantity. When you're working in the Water Industry, it is tempting to go for broad quotes like "Water is Life." Sure, that's true. But it might be a bit too general of a statement to be translated into concrete business. That's why John and his founding team at Mazarine have been clear from Day Zero when they wrote their investment thesis: in the Age of Climate Change and its extreme events, galloping urbanization, or increased water scarcity, water is a risk. New technologies can help our World mitigate that risk, and this, in all the dimensions of the ESG framework. Hence, speeding up the time-to-market of these emerging solutions induces an impact, turning Mazarine Ventures into an Impact Investor. In my conversation with John, we'll explore how that twist in the definition of water-related challenges and opportunities translates into concrete steps and how Mazarine articulates its actions from its Labs to its Fund I, Fund II, and Bluehouse investment funds. You'll get to understand why the exit is fully part of the impact process, which type of capital is the most important at which stage of a company's development, and how Mazarine ambitions to find entrepreneurs that have been to the future and came back. There's much more to unpack in this week's conversation with John, so we'll swiftly take off. But while you buckle up, if you like what you hear, please remember to share that episode with a colleague, a friend, or an entrepreneur you know that shall definitely reach out to Mazarine! Steal their phone, subscribe them to the podcast, and come tell me on LinkedIn what you liked or didn't like about it! Come on do it, and I'll meet you on the other side. Find out how Mazarine Ventures sees Impact Investing as a tool to mitigate the Water Risk!Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Sivan Zamir - VP Xylem Innovation Labs 💧 Xylem is one of the largest water and wastewater technology company globally and follows the simple motto: "Let's solve water" What we covered: 🔬 How Xylem invests in its R&D to stay on top of the Water Technological Game 💡 How approaches to innovation are evolving, and how that led to the inception of the Xylem Innovation Labs 🤝 What the various tracks of XIL actually are, and how do they bridge the best of Xylem's internal world and of the water entrepreneurship ecosystem 🛣️ How the name of the game is to improve the market access for new Water Technologies 🍫 How it doesn't depend on one specific stakeholder group to make innovation happen: it is all about "passing the baton" that happens to be the entrepreneur 🪦 How to avoid "death by pilot" and which frameworks to deploy for that 🇺🇸 How making technology work in California is a good proxy for the United States and, ultimately, the World 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 How innovation always comes down to people 🚀 How Sivan intends to feed the Xylem Innovation Labs with her startup spirit and acumen 6️⃣ The six areas of interest Xylem intends to focus on - and Sivan’s favorite child 🧠 How mindsets evolve and how people become more interested in new technology adoption 🏭 How many of the water innovations to come might already be deployed in other industries 🚀 Investments and partnerships with Burnt Island Ventures, the Westly Group, and Isle Utilities, moving the needle in a conservative industry, building a sit for everyone at the table... 🔁 Evolving innovation timelines, business model innovation, silver bullets not existing, Xylem as a bridge between diverse worlds, learning from others’ trials, finding a cultural fit between small and large companies, innovation as a service... and so much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Come say hi to Sivan on LinkedIn ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on How to Bring Innovation to Market Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Sivan Zamir is Vice President of Xylem Innovation Labs. Xylem is probably the World's largest water and wastewater technology company, and we'll explore today how innovation powers its "solving water" motto. When you're in business for a while, you can boast of having invented technologies such as the first submersible pump, the first dissolved oxygen meter, or the first digital twin-based wastewater network control system. But how can you ensure that you will still strive and innovate in the future? Well, one way to tell is to look at how much you invest in that said future, with R&D budgets as a proxy. As Xylem invests 4 to 5% of its yearly turnover into innovation, it sounds like a box they would tick. Now money isn't everything yet; there's also the way you spend it, and probably even more critical in the upcoming era of radical collaboration, how you integrate into the ecosystem around you. That's, as Sivan will explain in a minute, a bit of the rationale for the inception of the Xylem Innovation Labs. Building a consistent approach and a framework for early or growth stage start-ups, midsize OEMs, or later stage companies to interact with a giant the magnitude of Xylem. This flows through partnerships with Burnt Island Ventures, The Westly Group, or Isle Utilities and also involves keeping a vigilant eye over what's happening in other industries or business model innovation. Are you ready for a 21st-century innovation masterclass? 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 Sivan 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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Eirik Fadnes - CEO at Cambi Group 💧 Cambi is on a mission to turn sludge into resources thanks to Thermal Hydrolysis Processes What we covered: 💩 How there's no "Waste" in "Wastewater" - always worth repeating! 🏭 How Cambi's Thermal Hydrolysis (THP) enables up to 50% more biogas production and dividing the biosolids volume by two 📈 How Thermal Hydrolysis is a 3-step process that resembles a giant pressure cooker 💪 How THP ideally pretreat sludge to put conventional sludge lines on steroids 🛣️ How Thermal Hydrolysis is a staple in the road to net zero carbon 🏙️ How Cambi's solutions are deployed in many of the biggest cities across the World and secure a 90% market share (outside of China) 🇺🇸 How it took ten years to get Cambi's first contract in the US and what made it a brilliant win-win 0️⃣ How more and more water and wastewater utilities take carbon and net zero pledges and how Cambi intends to support 🇨🇳 How Beijing rolled out a landmark project that reduces the city's carbon emissions by 2.2 million tons per year 🔁 How Cambi intends to evolve its business model to increase the share of DBO projects in the company's turnover 🚀 Cambi's technology average ROI, staying laser-focused, getting the World to hear about Cambi's THP, the road ahead and the company's north stars... and much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Come say hi to Eirik on LinkedIn ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on Thermal Hydrolysis Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Eirik is the CEO of the Cambi Group. Cambi is on a mission to turn sludge into resources; we'll explore how they do that in just a minute. If you're a regular listener of this podcast, you've for sure already heard that there's no "waste" in "wastewater." We've explained how the world's sewage might be the equivalent of 320 nuclear power reactors, and we've regularly touched on how that wastewater is probably one of the best sources of water we have at hand in the new realm of water scarcity. Now, in the dirty world of wastewater, there's an even dirtier side to be found on the sludge line. Imagine that's the waste's waste; how good or useful can it be? Well, first, that's also an amazing bioresource that you can turn into biogas but also biosolids that can be valorized. And that's where Cambi's magic happens: with their thermal hydrolysis process, they can increase the biogas production by up to 50% while halving the volume of those biosolids - which means twice fewer trucks to deal with it. I'll let Eirik explain to us in simple terms how - to quote him - his giant pressure cooker delivers that amazing result, and we'll get to discuss a bit deeper the business model and the strategy of a company that went through its IPO in 2021. Right before we start, let me remind you that if you like what you hear, you can help me up incredibly by sharing that content around you. Tell your friends, colleagues, or LinkedIn network what you found inspiring in what Eirik explains 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!Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

BlueTech Forum 2022's Theme was straightforward: Radical Collaboration for Regeneration. For two packed days, the Vancouver convention center hosted the hottest and most insightful discussions on the fate of our Water World. Keynote speakers, start-up founders, end-users, industry experts, investors, and civil society gathered under the flag of "Radical Collaboration" I was blessed with a spot next to the conference hall, which allowed me to welcome some industry legends on my microphone: 🎙️ Menno Holterman (President & CEO @ Nijhuis Saur Industries) 🎙️ Snehal Desai (EVP & Chief Growth and Sustainability Officer @ Evoqua Water Technologies) 🎙️ Ralph Exton (Chief Marketing & Chief Digital Officer @ SUEZ - Water Technologies & Solutions) 🎙️ Kimberly Kupiecki (Director & Global Leader Sustainability ESG, Advocacy, Communications @ DuPont) 🎙️ Jon LIberzon (VP & Head of Business Development @ Tomorrow Water) 🎙️ Kamakshi Sharma (Director of Marketing and Strategy @ Aquatech International) We discussed: 🖐️ Radical Collaboration for Regeneration - What's in it for you? (00:51) 🚶‍♂️ How does Radical Collaboration translate into a company's actions? (05:59) 💰 Is M&A a way to collaborate? (11:16) 💬 Tomorrow Water & Aquatech's Elevator Pitches (17:24) 👼 Was collaboration the key to Evoqua's rebirth? (19:39) 🚀 How does SUEZ interact with the water start-up ecosystem? (22:26) 🌱 Walking the Sustainability Talk (23:41) 💽 Leveraging synergies between datacenters and wastewater treatment plants (26:31) 🎬 Reality check: where do we start from? (28:10) 🌆 How do we better integrate water infrastructure with urban design? (30:12) 💪 How does success look like in the future? (34:04) 🤝 How is it to be back to live interactions? (42:56) 🔥 Rapid Fire Questions: 🔥 😅 Can you name one thing that you've learned the hard way? (46:27) ⌚ What is the very very very latest thing you've learned? (48:32) We mentioned: The History of US Filter The Veolia/SUEZ merger The Dynamics of Water Innovation The book "Flourish" The (slow) rise of Reuse Special thanks to Paul O'Callaghan, Aoife Kelleher, and Annyse Balkwill for the invite and support during this amazing Forum!Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Andrew Benedek, Executive Chairman of Anaergia, founder of Zenon and CEO for 26 years, a former member of the IWA board, and the inaugural recipient of the Lee Kwan Yew Prize. 💧 Anaergia aims to convert waste into useful resources, protect the environment, and sustain life for generations to come. Where some see waste, they see resources. What we covered: 💰 How Zenon created the $4Bn/year membrane bioreactor market from scratch 💸 How no investor would have dared to put a penny in Andrew's vision ⏰ How wastewater reuse would become mandatory and how only a few people had realized it in the early 1980s 🌐 How you can't change the World with academic research and how that led Andrew to become a water entrepreneur 🤷 How for almost two decades there were no positive signs for wastewater treatment membranes on the market 🧰 How technology development wasn't a peacefully boring straight road either 🌐 How with Zenon membranes now in the middle of the market a merger or an acquisition became inevitable 🦸 How Andrew tempted an audacious move that - here again - would have been two decades ahead of times 🛋️ How with several million in his pocket and a beautiful house on the US west coast, 63-year old Andrew Benedek still wasn't done with business 🌊 How teaching and researching at the Scripps institute became an eye opener on the advancement rate of climate change 🪃 How Andrew plunged back into the shark tank by turning a bankrupt german company on its head - leading it to its IPO 💪 How over time, Andrew developed a 4-step recipe for changing the World 🏭 The one single business book you need to read, being an idealist, dealing with market players that copy you, failing and learning from failure, using gatekeepers to enter the mass market, believing in yourself, building for the future, becoming more ambitious every day... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get the Full Story Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

🎙️ Andrew Benedek is the Executive Chairman of Anaergia after having founded and led Zenon for 26 years. He's a former member of the IWA board and the inaugural recipient of the Lee Kwan Yew Prize. There's a fine line between genius and madness. Between visionary and crazy. Between confidence and vanity. So when we look back at Andrew Benedek's path, I can say he is a genius that was confident enough in his vision to stay true to it for two decades long while everyone told him he was mad. I mean, you can try to ignore the noise and the voices around you. But I'm often told on that microphone that the market never lies! And in fact, for 16 years, Zenon had no competition - which by extension, may mean Zenon had no market. Now put yourself in the shoes of a younger Andrew, in the late eighties, promoting membranes in wastewater treatment when almost no-one even believed, that this technology could make a dent in drinking water applications. Would you pivot? Would you give up? Or would you double down? Of course, 40 years later, with MBR now a dominant wastewater treatment technology, it's hard to put the survivor bias aside. And we're probably all thankful to Andrew for not giving up. But can we rationalize why Zenon succeeded against all the odds? If you're familiar with Paul O'Callaghan's concept of Crisis-Driven innovation, things suddenly start to make more sense. Indeed, as Andrew will explain in a jiffy, water scarcity was a crisis in the making, and this already in the 80s. And while only a hand full of visionaries had realized it, and aligned themselves to water reuse becoming mandatory, the setup existed. Luck is not the decisive factor here. It's a skill, and you'll realize in a minute that this skill has not vanished and still fires up the now 78 Andrew Benedek. Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E12 - How to be Alone, Early, Crazy but Actually Right: The History of Zenon" You can also find here the full episode materials on the history of Zenon Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Benjamin Sparrow - CEO and Co-Founder at Saltworks Technologies 💧 Saltworks provides innovative products and solutions for industrial wastewater treatment and desalination. What we covered: 🤔 How we will need a lot more lithium to cover the World’s needs over the next decade – and how conventional sources might not be sufficient 💰 How a lot of money and investments flow to the battery production industry, and surprisingly much less to the lithium mining sector 💪 How industrial wastewater could actually be an incredible source of lithium – and how to mine it 🦸‍♂️ What DLE and CRC stand for – and why Direct Lithium Extraction and Concentrating, Refining, and Converting are a key to the future of Lithium-Ion batteries 🚀 How Saltworks’ technology was first used by… NASA! ♻️ How Saltworks’ approach to Lithium Mining is an incredible example of circular economy done right 🛠️ How Saltworks’ adventure started in a garage – and how they may well be back in it for a stealth project 🔁 How the company pivoted its original approach and what milestones they would have to reach before returning to it 🧑‍🔬 How their technology can be summarized as a way to split columns in the periodic table of the elements 📈 How much of a hot Wall Street’s prospect Direct Lithium Extraction is right now (and what to think about it) ⛪ How the church of England may well be the most influential and surprising impact investor out there 🤝 Striving out of the box, water and its compounds being on the industrial’s critical path, fostering the right team spirit, crossing the valley of death, caring and aiming for turbocharged solutions… and much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Come say hi to Benjamin on LinkedIn ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on Lithium Mining Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Benjamin Sparrow is CEO & Co-Founder of Saltworks Technologies Lithium Mining is expected to deliver the lithium-ion battery industry 500’000 metric tons a year. Sure, conventional lithium supply will grow by 300% over the next decade but that will still not be sufficient! Hence, it might be an opportunity to get creative and to look for lithium in… water. How? Let’s review.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The carbon impact of the water industry is an intricate topic. Over the past days, we've been reviewing different aspects of the race to Net Zero: S5E7 - Austin Alexander S5E8 - Stephane Bessadi S5E9 - Maria Manidaki S5E10 - Susan Moisio Today, I tried to summarize in a short format everything you'd like to know about the transformation of the water sector to cope with the new carbon pledges. This was a hot topic during this year's Global Water Summit - organized by Global Water Intelligence, where I had the pleasure and the honor to host a panel with the guests you'll hear today. The topic also came up in my discussions with: S5E4 - Victoria Edwards S3E13 - David Lloyd Owen You can test out the Asian Development Bank's STEEP tool here So, when do you want to take a pledge? Zero carbon by 2050? Zero emissions by 2025? Net Zero straight away? It's time to act! ➡️ Check my full series on net zero water ➡️ Check the video version of this episode ➡️ Come tell me what you thought of it on LinkedIn Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Susan Moisio - Global Water Director at Jacobs, where she leads a team of 9,000 water professionals across all regions. 💧 Jacobs pledges to push the limits of what's possible, continually challenging today to reinvent tomorrow. What we covered: 💧 How Jacobs' 9'000 water professionals build for a "One Water" Team - and what it involves in the company's market approach 🌎 How Susan swiftly grew into a market influencer - starting as early as one week into the job ⬛ How Jacobs chooses to tackle carbon topics, why, and how it rolls out in terms of timelines and goals 🌱 How there's positive to find in the climate emergency, that can turn into a sustainable business opportunity ☁️ How water is integral to climate response topics and often features at the heart of it 🤝 How water challenges have common traits from one place to the other, and how teaming up - for instance in associations and alliances - is a way to overcome them 🧑‍🏫 How the X-Factor to strive in this new environment is Leadership, and how to enforce best practices with that regard 1️⃣ How wastewater may be the best place to start, yet not in isolation and rather in One Water approaches ⚡ How energy-positive organizations could be around the corner, and how some have already achieved that milestone 🌳 How when it comes to nature-based solutions it's not about gray or green but rather good management practices 0️⃣ Community involvement, climate change as a universal threat, Jacobs goals and roadmap, science-based objectives, being a gatekeeper, enabling innovation... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Check my full series on net zero water ➡️ Get the Full Story ➡️ Come say hi to Susan on LinkedIn Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

🎙️ Susan Moisio is the Global Water Director at Jacobs, where she leads a team of 9,000 water professionals across all regions. Susan names them a one water team, which you'll discover to be a key concept in today's discussion! Back in Season 3, I had a discussion on that microphone with the authors of the Sustainability Puzzle , Claudia Winkler and Alice Schmidt. And I couldn't help but think of one of the book's key advice when listening to Susan today: Zoom out before you zoom in. If you're a water professional, chances are that you define yourself as specialized in a section of the Water Cycle. You might be treating wastewater, managing a water network, preventing a sewer overflow, or producing your community's drinking water. Now, if you zoom out, you'll swiftly come to realize that you're dealing with the one water I shortly alluded to. But is that the end of the zoom out? Not really. There are many surroundings to the water cycle. Like the energy we consume or produce, the impact we have on adjacent industries, and our role in both mitigating and sometimes causing climate change. Solving the riddle needs to be bigger than water. Would you expect thought leaders like Jacobs to think outside of the water box? Probably. Did they? Of course - and Susan will take us through that landscape in just a minute. You'll swiftly get to understand why, Global Water Intelligence named her one of the 40 most influential people in the Water Industry. And you'll see that there are very interesting bridges between what she shared and what the other experts in this mini-series on water positive, zero Carbon explained to us. We'll have five feature interviews on that podcast, and I'll have the same five speakers on stage with me for the Global Water Summit in Madrid. If you want a complete overview, check my full series on net zero water , and of course if you don't want to miss any of these interviews, make sure to subscribe to the podcast. It's free, and it's even better if you share it with your friends or colleagues. I'll let you share it, and I'll meet you on the other side! Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E10 - Why is One Water the Best Way t manage our Vulnerable Water Cycle?" You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Maria Manidaki - Net Zero Technical Lead and Principal Water Investment Planning Advisor at Mott MacDonald 💧 Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy, that places social outcomes at the center of all it does. What we covered: 🧭 How social outcomes are a north star to guide all carbon actions 🌎 How the full concept of a good net-zero outgrew carbon neutrality and global warning for the better 🍃 How the outcomes of COP 26 might still not be clear enough as to how to roll out the new carbon normal ❌ How leadership is the X-factor in succeeding or failing the net-zero transition 🦶 How wastewater treatment direct emissions may soon represent 60% of water companies' footprint - and what to do to mitigate it 💸 How to adapt procurement strategies to enable carbon strategies 🧑‍🏫 How to educate this generation of professionals (and the next one) 0️⃣ Net Zero as a new paradigm rather than a fancy, fresh thinking, collaboration platforms, new standards, and frameworks, zooming out before you zoom in, achieving 2030 objectives with 2050 in sight... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Check my full series on net zero water ➡️ Get the Full Story ➡️ Come say hi to Maria on LinkedIn Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

🎙️ Maria Manidaki is Net Zero Technical Lead and Principal Water Investment Planning Advisor at Mott MacDonald. Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy, that places social outcomes at the center of all it does. You know the saying: smoke is a good proxy to determine if there's a fire. Well, it turns out that the same applies to greenhouse gases. Studies demonstrated how carbon emissions are, in fact, a good proxy for resource efficiency. So, if you want to optimize your resources and build a sustainable approach, you'd better monitor, control, and limit your greenhouse gas emissions. Long story short: down the line, Water UK just equipped itself with a 2030 routemap that aims for net zero in the Water Sector. It's not alone in this endeavor, as 81 utilities in the World and at the time I'm recording this in may 2022 have taken that pledge, but I'd say it's the most structured approach I've seen so far. Maria will guide us through all of that in a minute, and explain the role that Mott MacDonald plays in Water UK's routemap, in further working groups such as PAS 2080 and beyond, and if you're like me, you'll also get to discover a new notion: the concept of a GOOD net zero. We'll have five feature interviews on that podcast, and I'll have the same five speakers on stage with me for the Global Water Summit in Madrid. If you want a complete overview, check my full series on net zero water , and of course if you don't want to miss any of these interviews, make sure to subscribe to the podcast. It's free, and it's even better if you share it with your friends or colleagues. I'll let you share it, and I'll meet you on the other side! Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E9 - How Water UK intends to Reach a Good Net Zero, Two Decades Early!" You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Stephane Bessadi - Senior Procurement Specialist for the Asian Development Bank 💧 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) commits to a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and Pacific Region. What we covered: 🌎 How to build more efficient, inclusive, and climate friendly water and wastewater projects ⚡ How water challenges often come hand in hand with energy struggles - and how to kill two birds with one stone 💻 How STEEP was built from pilot studies and field data, enriched with operational feedback 🤖 How digital solutions and new technologies support the transition towards higher energy efficiency 💧 How the population's welfare is highly interlinked with water quality - especially in developing countries 💰 Getting value for money, assessing technologies, supporting innovation, partnering with private sector companies, acting with pedagogy... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Check my full series on net zero water ➡️ Get the Full Story ➡️ Come say hi to Stephane on LinkedIn Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

🎙️ Stephane Bessadi is Senior Procurement Specialist for the Asian Development Bank. ADB - its short name you'll hear quite a lot in the next minutes - commits to a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and Pacific Region. Urbanization ticks at a high pace in the Asia Pacific region, with 65% of the population that's expected to live in cities. Water and Wastewater infrastructures will have to adapt, and this has consequences. Without even considering water, the region will soon represent 40% of the World's greenhouse gas emissions, a number that's still to increase if we factor in the future energy needs of the newly created water infrastructures. Hence, the Asian Development Bank is at the same time a big contributor to that transition, as it invests about one billion dollars every year in water supply and wastewater management projects and is a front row observer with a wealth of data to leverage. This is how, as Stephane will explain, they've developed a screening tool for the energy evaluation of projects that ensures that the best decisions are taken today to build a sustainable infrastructure for the decades to come. If you want to review the tool while listening to Stéphane's explanations, check the show notes - I've placed the link there to both the publication and the Excel tool . We'll have five feature interviews on that podcast, and I'll have the same five speakers on stage with me for the Global Water Summit in Madrid. If you want a complete overview, check my full series on net zero water , and of course if you don't want to miss any of these interviews, make sure to subscribe to the podcast. It's free, and it's even better if you share it with your friends or colleagues. I'll let you share it, and I'll meet you on the other side! Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E8 - How to ensure Energy and Carbon Resilient projects with a Simple Screening Tool" You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Austin Alexander - Vice President, Sustainability and Social Impact at Xylem 💧 Xylem is a leading water technology company with the famous "solving water" motto - and a finalist for this year's Net Zero Carbon Award at the Global Water Summit What we covered: 🌎 How climate change is the overarching concern for many further challenges 🦶 How the supply chain's carbon footprint is a nice benchmark, but much less impactful than its handprint 🛗 How carbon savings can come in various shapes and how the simplest is often the best ⚡ How energy savings are greenhouse gas impacts before cost reductions 🏗️ How water infrastructure may benefit from more nuanced takes on its revamping 0️⃣ Growing as a Xylem supplier, net zero as a hot topic, ratings being a tedious task, sustainability being embedded in water topics, water professionals being on a mission, sustainability being a long-ball game... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Check my full series on net zero water ➡️ Get the Full Story ➡️ Come say hi to Austin on LinkedIn Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

🎙️ Austin Alexander is Vice President, Sustainability and Social Impact at Xylem, a leading water technology company with the famous "solving water" motto. What if solving water actually involved solving Carbon and leading the race to net zero? As Austin will explain in a minute, Xylem believes that if we don't tackle Carbon in the Water Sector, it will make all our other challenges much more complex and tricky. Great, but if solving Carbon wasn't complex and tricky itself, we would have done it for a while, right? Well, by COP 26 last year, Xylem published a white paper looking at ways to reduce our greenhouse gas impacts in the wastewater sector. And it turns out, as they demonstrate, that a 50% reduction could be easily achieved with today's technologies and, in 95% of the cases, at no additional or even negative cost! So what are we waiting? Actually, Xylem isn't waiting at all, and they're currently rolling out their 2025 strategy to reduce their CO2 handprint by over 2.8 million metric tons. What's a handprint? How do they achieve that? Where do they stand? What can we all steal and apply as a sector? How does it impact the entire value chain? Don't worry; Austin will answer all of that - and more - in a minute. If you're intrigued by the topic of Carbon in the water sector and want to join the race to zero, make sure to follow my various stops this week on that road. We'll have five feature interviews on that podcast, and I'll have the same five speakers on stage with me for the Global Water Summit in Madrid. If you want a complete overview, check my full series on net zero water , and of course if you don't want to miss any of these interviews, make sure to subscribe to the podcast. It's free, and it's even better if you share it with your friends or colleagues. I'll let you share it, and I'll meet you on the other side! Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E7 - How to cut Wastewater's Energy Related Carbon Emissions in Two at No Cost?" You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️Jon Freedman - Senior Vice President - Global Government Affairs at SUEZ WTS 💧 SUEZ WTS provides industry-leading water technology and process expertise to solve the toughest water, wastewater, and process challenges What we covered: 🇺🇸 How the US federal government just put out a National Water Reuse Action Plan (WRAP) 👑 How among the 55 action items, Jon holds one that's especially interesting 🧠 How there are four levers from a policy standpoint to promote greater water reuse (and what they are) 🦸‍♂️ How a fifth approach might well trump them all, by incentivizing water reuse 💪 How we might have to 5x water reuse in the coming decade 🤝🏿 How private sector, multilateral organization, development agencies and governments will have to work hand in hand to develop water reuse 💰 How the US infrastructure bill will apply to the water sector, and what the $55 billion there will be allocated to ❇️ How the scattered nature of the water utility scene in the US can prevent rapid actions from being taken 🍏 How decentralized water reuse might be a powerful solution, and how the 50L Home coalition promotes this direction 🍏 How Los Angeles intends to reuse 100% of its wastewater by 2035 and what it deploys to meet that goal 🌱 How piloting reuse solutions goes beyond a pure technological assessment 🍎 How water tariffs and their absence when it comes to river and groundwater are crucial influencers for the adoption of reuse 🦈 Teaching at the university and the Wharton School, Creating an “H2O Shark Tank,” Membrane Bioreactors as a fundamental technological brick, the water usage mix, PFAS treatment, having aspirational goals... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get the Full Story ➡️ Come say hi to Jon on LinkedIn Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

🎙️ Jon Freedman is the Senior Vice President - Global Government Affairs at SUEZ WTS; he's teaching about the future of Water at the University of Pennsylvania. Starting next spring, he'll also be conducting a class on the business and governance of water at the Wharton School. What levers can you play on to promote greater water reuse? Well, you can act on the money side of the equation, for instance, by incentivizing the deployment of new technologies through grants and loans. But also by making the wrong behavior more expensive. You want to use your water only once and flush it away? No problem, as long as it becomes expensive - third parties, be it governments, utilities, or agencies, can then make that money work to deploy the technologies I just mentioned. You can also play with regulations. People don't want to reuse? Let's just make it mandatory. Forcing it isn't always the most elegant solution, but it's hard to argue that it doesn't work. Finally, on the total other ends of the spectrum, you can award good pupils with recognition for their right moves. And that is the task Jon has on his plate right now, as he'll explain in a minute with his project of crowning a US Water Reuse champion. In a world that's never black or white, Jon will guide us through all the shades of gray and all the ongoing and future projects that mix some of these four approaches. Don't worry; I'll avoid spoiling too much of the thorough review of water reuse policies and their rollout at various scales, and I'll let you dive into my conversation with Jon. Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E6 - Who will become the US's first Water Reuse Champion Ever?" You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Annyse Balkwill - Founder of the LuminUS Group and Program Director for the upcoming BlueTech Forum 💧 The LuminUS Group crafts an events formula that has participants engaging, again and again, sharing with their colleagues and offering this feedback. Wanna see it applied? Make sure to attend the upcoming BlueTech Forum! What we covered: 🔺 How the company's pyramidal shape is disappearing, and what it involves ♻️ How organizations have to evolve to strive in this new paradigm 🧠 How businesses will have to leverage collective intelligence and wisdom to grow 🦸‍♂️ How you'll have to adapt design, practices, and frameworks as a leader - and how that will empower your teams 💪 How in a scattered water industry, all these phenomena not only exist but are set on steroids 📛 How hence, water conferences need to adapt, and how BlueTech Forum is redesigned accordingly ❓ How challenging it is as a water conference organizer to plan the unplanned, and give up control over events 3️⃣ The three pieces of advice you can implement today and change your business meetings forever 💥 How when done right, business meetings, and water conferences can generate sparks! 🤙 How physical conferences used to be a habit, and how they must reinvent themselves in the “new normal.” 🤔 How there are tons of good business reasons to attend a water conference, how that’s still not the decisive factor to show up, and what it is 😴 How you shall avoid visiting the BlueTech Forum if you just expect a passive top-down delivery of content 🤝 How the conference design taps into human connections to go past any “pedigree” considerations 🔁 How Annyse first experienced and built her methodology, and how you can replicate these best practices ⛔ How you don’t have to run crappy business meetings just because that’s how you were taught to run them 🌱 How we can leverage the full human potential as an industry, regardless of gender or background 👌 Radical collaboration, talking about what means most for you, planting seeds, crafting a truly unique event... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get the Full Story ➡️ Come say hi to Annyse on LinkedIn Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

🎙️ Annyse Balkwill is the Founder of the LuminUS Group, where she crafts event formulas that bring engagement, sharing, and value to a whole new level. She's also the program director for the upcoming BlueTech Forum, happening on the 7 and 8 June in Vancouver. Have you ever attended a business meeting that seemed to drain your soul out of your body? Or have you ever happily slept in a water conference to digest the jet lag and be in good shape for the real conference content, aka the late drinks at the bar? You can change that! (some have already done it) Annyse will take us through all the steps with BlueTech forum as a case study. She'll explain why you should attend, and also why not. And she'll give you three very actionable tips that you can apply from your next business meeting on to bring the conversation to a whole new level. Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E5 - 3 Crazy Simple Tips to take the Bore out of Business Meetings or Water Conferences" You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Victoria Edwards - CEO & Co-Founder of FIDO Tech 💧 FIDO AI is a data-as-a-service (DaaS) end-to-end leak detection solution that identifies leaks, sizes them, and tells you where to dig to repair them What we covered: 🎵 How water networks sing, and how you can leverage this for leak detection 💧 How non-revenue water is a threat in a world of rising water scarcity and why we shall fight it 🔥 How no other industry would actually allow losing 40% of its production without reacting 🤖 How artificial intelligence can turn leak detection around by drastically increasing accuracy and reducing false positives 🖥️ How monitoring a leak's evolution is almost as important as detecting it, and why you'd probably not want to repair all of them straight away 🧰 How despite its power, AI won't replace humans and hence never is a threat but rather another tool in the water toolbox 🌐 How FIDO ambitions to save the planet one megaliter at a time by taking a disruptive sensor agnostic and AI approach to non-revenue water 🎹 How Victoria’s musical background is an asset in that endeavor, even if she no longer plays Rachmaninov 🆕 How you need your innovation first to help and solve a challenge, then be transformational, for it to make a dent in the utility world. 🤙 How being sensor agnostic and adopting an open approach is the best approach. 🪃 How it all started for FIDO and what step they already underwent 🤑 How FIDO removes adoption barriers with its CAPEX Free / Data as a Service business model 🏭 Training on some of the World’s most complex networks, striving even with little knowledge of the network, fixing leaks as an alternative to increasing production capacity, building hardware, pivoting the original concept... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get the Full Story ➡️ Come say hi to Victoria on LinkedIn Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

🎙️ Victoria Edwards is the CEO and Co-Founder of FIDO, a data-as-a-service (DaaS) end-to-end leak detection solution that identifies leaks, sizes them, and tells you where to dig to repair them. In this episode, Victoria explains how they pivoted 8 times to give FIDO its current shape, take the market by storm, and solve the daunting non-revenue water challenge. Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E4 - How to Save Time, Money, and Water thanks to 92% Accurate Leak Detection" in the search bar! You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Katrina Donaghy - CEO & Co-Founder of Civic Ledger 💧 Civic Ledger is an award-winning blockchain company that builds trust layer solutions for the markets of tomorrow This is the second part of this discussion around blockchain and Water Ledge, where we covered: ❌ How today's water management often resembles a market failure 💧 How water markets are often not optimized and hence water doesn't flow to its best use 🦘 How the Australian water markets in particular are an example of a scattered, financialized, and opaque set-up ₿ How blockchain could turn water into a non-fungible token - and how that could be good news 💰 How a crypto exchange platform would look like, and how it would work 💸 How leveraging cryptocurrencies, blockchain and water ledgers, we could decentralize water finance ₿ How Katrina's Bitcoin encounter was a serendipitous moment 🤝🏿 How you can't go 100% blockchain from the get-go and how Civic Ledger splits smart contracts into two 🤲 How integrating water markets with blockchain finally brings 23 markets together with a common real-time source of truth 🚚 How water is non-fungible because of its heavy and hard-to-transport long-distance nature 📟 How the next frontier would be to couple blockchain trading with a hydrologic digital twin (and why) 🔋 How ironic it is to blame blockchain's energy consumption while altogether avoiding the point with gold and physical money 🌎 Interlinking with mineral flows and ESG investment, Competing with centralized trading in this new ESG realm, Working with the World Economic Forum, developing patent NFTs... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get the Full Water Blockchain Story ➡️ Come say hi to Katrina on LinkedIn Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Katrina Donaghy - CEO & Co-Founder of Civic Ledger 💧 Civic Ledger is an award-winning blockchain company that builds trust layer solutions for the markets of tomorrow What we covered: ❌ How today's water management often resembles a market failure 💧 How water markets are often not optimized and hence water doesn't flow to its best use 🦘 How the Australian water markets in particular are an example of a scattered, financialized, and opaque set-up ₿ How blockchain could turn water into a non-fungible token - and how that could be good news 💰 How a crypto exchange platform would look like, and how it would work 💸 How leveraging cryptocurrencies, blockchain and water ledgers, we could decentralize water finance ₿ How Katrina's Bitcoin encounter was a serendipitous moment 🤝🏿 How you can't go 100% blockchain from the get-go and how Civic Ledger splits smart contracts into two 🤲 How integrating water markets with blockchain finally brings 23 markets together with a common real-time source of truth 🚚 How water is non-fungible because of its heavy and hard-to-transport long-distance nature 📟 How the next frontier would be to couple blockchain trading with a hydrologic digital twin (and why) 🔋 How ironic it is to blame blockchain's energy consumption while altogether avoiding the point with gold and physical money 🌎 Interlinking with mineral flows and ESG investment, Competing with centralized trading in this new ESG realm, Working with the World Economic Forum, developing patent NFTs... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get the Full Story ➡️ Come say hi to Katrina on LinkedIn Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

🎙️ Katrina Donaghy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Civic Ledger. This week, she explains how blockchain can be leveraged far beyond its usual image to improve water management, and water efficiency and solve water markets. Could this turn water somehow into a non-fungible token (NFT)? And would that be good news? (spoiler: probably, yes!) Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E3 - What would it Empower, if Water Actually Became a Non Fungible Token?" in the search bar! You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Christopher Gasson - Owner of Global Water Intelligence and authority on water finance and markets 💧 Global Water Intelligence is the leading publisher and events organizer serving the international water industry. What we covered: 💰 How there are two international things in water: money and technology. 👬 How taking off Global Water Intelligence involved focusing on those two ends of the market 🤑 How still, it is quite controversial to associate water and money (and why it is not a positive sign) 🤪 How people associate a list of terrible mental models to that very water-finance link 💧 How water is capital intensive, and how much you'll have to invest to get $1 of revenue ☠️ How this water industry feature leads to innovation inhibition and major hurdles for water entrepreneurs 🤯 What drives utilities in their infrastructure investment approach 😕 Why SDG 6 targets are stranded for exactly this same missing link between water and finance 🤝 How we shall tell the World about water's profitability (and try to shine the right light on sanitation to make it look the same) 🍏 How the ESG investment wave can be a blessing, assuming we create the opportunities for ESG money to finance the right projects 🧱 The challenges utilities have to overcome, so finance trust them and bets on their future development plans 💧 How it is about time to connect the dots in the scattered water industry to power a triple win 🍎 How a whole load of people talks about saving the world while skipping the thing which really matters: the money to save it 🍎 How climate change brings a third international compound in water ⭕ How describing water consumers as stakeholders is wrong (and why) 💸 How the link between money and water can be proven by the absurd, whenever you deprive the latter of the former 📗 How GWI was a 162-subscriber struggling magazine 20 years ago, how it evolved into today's world reference, and what that changes and enables 👏 Predicting the future and how it's impossible, being catastrophically wrong, needing the sound of two hands clapping to be successful, the SUEZ-Veolia drama, desalination... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get the Full Story ➡️ Come say hi to Christopher on LinkedIn Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

🎙️ Christopher Gasson is the owner and editor of Global Water Intelligence, a leading magazine and insight company in the Water Industry. In this week's episode, he explains how only two things are universal in water (with a third starting to appear). And how it would be "Global Water Stupidity" not to try to bring these global water business fields together, as an industry media and thought leader. Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E2 - How to Systemically drive Money into Water and escape Global Water Stupidity" in the search bar! You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Reinhard Hübner, CEO of SKion Water, 2021's Water Company of the Year 💧 SKion Water is an international water technology platform, that aims to empower water technology companies to make a difference. What we covered: 📈 How SKion Water was built from scratch in a decade, to reach about 750 M€ yearly turnover 🛣️ How building a successful water company all starts with choosing your path (and what the options are) 🤑 How cheap money comes with drawbacks and how this can be problematic for water entrepreneurs 🤪 How water market capitalizations totally go through the roof these days (and what to think about it) ☠️ How there's no magical way to skip steps and how it is dangerous to even try 💧 How the water industry is segmented, and how important it is to target the right section of the food chain 🤯 How it might be tempting to see yourself as much more clever than everyone before, and how that can lead to terrible mistakes as a water entrepreneur 🌳 How trees don't grow up to the sky, and how being reasonable on your business expectations is the best way to really deliver 🤝 How it might be tempting to see tremendous synergies between various branches of the water industry... and how those rarely (if ever) exist 🍏 How what matters at the end of the day is less the plan than the way you execute it (and how you might have to go in the trenches) 🧱 All in all, how Reinhard built the 2021 "Water Company of the Year" 💧 How Reinhart almost fell into investing by accident 🍏 The two reasons why one would want to invest in Water (despite all the challenges) 🍎 How SKion's success was born in early, rapid, and spectacular failures 🍏 How the focus is not to acquire companies but to serve the real customer needs (and the foolproof trick to always keep that market pulse) 👝 How the Water Sector's structure is quite unique in terms of company sizes and how a certain one doesn't exist at all 💰 What's the best way to invest in water companies and why 🧍 Who are the best water entrepreneur profiles, why, and how they have to take risks 💸 Water Industry's consolidation frenzy, too much money potentially killing companies, crazy valuations, learning from history, giving atypical companies a chance... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get the Full Story ➡️ Come say hi to Reinhard on LinkedIn Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

🎙️ Reinhard Hübner is the CEO of SKion Water and the architect behind the incredible path of a company that went from 0 to 750 M€/year in just a decade. The trick? A rigorous methodology, Reinhard shares in this week's episode, along with reflections on the water market, the water industry, and the sector's overall health (in the age of ESG Investing). Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E1 - The 7 Secrets of the Water Company of the Year you shall Absolutely Steal!" in the search bar! You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.