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

with 🎙️ Walid Khoury, General Manager of Desalytics & Water Influence Guru 💧 Desalytics is a social impact investment vehicle helping solve Africa's water challenges that ambitions to change the Water landscape in the Sub-Saharan region. What we covered: 🍎 How Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia host the World's most pressing Water Challenges 🤔 How the Water Industry feels more confident, serving the Asian than African market, and why 🍎 How there's an overall lack of understanding around what Africa and the Sub-Saharan region are 🍏 The drivers that make this region incredibly attractive if you know how to address it 🍏 How the reluctance of Water Multinationals to serve the Sub-Saharan region creates a void and an opportunity in the market 🙋 How Desalytics aims to address this market, and how it's at the same time an innovative and bold move 🌎 How Blended Finance and Industrial projects are totally different and shall be approached accordingly 🍏 How the "Desalytics" Idea was cooking in Walid's head for over 12 years 🍏 How to beef up your water marketing and sales engine, and how to build it up from scratch with 2021 tools 💪 How to drive awareness on the African potential, brilliant minds, and tremendous opportunities 🍏 How Desalytics' path furiously resembles the expected trajectory of hypergrowth companies, and how they might achieve it without burning Venture Money 🧮 How the company ambitions to grow into a full vertical, catered to an underserved market 🍏 Gender Diversity, Finding time to grow simultaneously in so many places, having a positive impact... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-to-irresistibly-rise-in-sub-saharan-africa-when-all-water-experts-step-out/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Walid Khoury shares his vision of Sub-Saharan Africa, quite far from the usual preconceptions, and explains how much of an incredible business opportunity it represents, if you take the water market right. 🎙️ Walid Khoury is the Founder and General Manager of Desalytics, and a Social Water guru bringing 28k water professionals together with his LinkedIn #WaterQuestions To discover the full interview, type "S4E5 - How To Irresistibly Rise in Sub-Saharan Africa When All Water Experts Step Out" You can also find Walid's interview on the (don't) Waste Water website: https://dww.show/how-to-irresistibly-rise-in-sub-saharan-africa-when-all-water-experts-step-out/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Mina Guli, CEO and Co-Founder of the Thirst Foundation, Director of the Antarctic Science Foundation, Director of the Global Water Partnership and Adventurer. 💧 The Thirst Foundation is dedicated to getting the global water crisis to the top of the agenda and driving innovation to use less water every day. What we covered: 🏃‍♀️ How Mina Guli ran across 7 deserts on 7 continents in 7 weeks to raise awareness on Water Scarcity 🏃‍♀️ How she completed 40 marathons in 40 days and started a 100 marathons in 100 days series, then broke her leg in #62 🍏 How her bringing the "Close the Gap" message across to 4 billion people is proof that we're all capable of doing anything 📚 How the Water Crisis is the story of People, and how we shall get them heard 🍏 How we must find a way to accelerate action to Close the Gap 🙋 How we need to put water onto the global agenda 🌎 How the UN Conference on Water in 2023 is our opportunity to move the needle and Close that Gap 💪 How there's Jeff Bezos, the Pope... and Mina on Fortune Magazine's list of the 50 greatest leaders in the World 🍎 How regardless of where you are on earth, Water Scarcity will impact you through the goods you consume 🍎 How if we don't care, there's always going to be something more important or simpler than water to put on a corporate agenda 🍏 How the right scale to ignite action might be the companies, as they are quick to act when something impacts their supply chains or their bottom line 🍏 How Water is the main ingredient in everything we grow or manufacture, and how it's not as simple as water price equals water value 💪 How individually you can have an impact but together we can change the World 🧮 People filling in for Marathons 63 to 100, Agriculture as a key battlefield, the role of individuals, regulators, and policymakers... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/18-months-left-to-close-the-gap-beware-the-water-clock-is-ticking/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Mina Guli shares inspirational thoughts on how to move the needle and speed up things to solve the Water Crisis, close the gap, and achieve SDG6 in due time. The time to act is now, with the UN-Water Conference in 2023 as our window of opportunity. 🎙️ Mina Guli is the CEO and Co-Founder of the Thirst Foundation, the Director of the Antarctic Science Foundation, the Director of the Global Water Partnership and Adventurer. Oh, and one of Fortune Magazine's 50 greatest leaders in the World! To discover the full interview, type "S4E4 - 18 Months Left to "Close the Gap": Beware, the Water Clock is Ticking!" You can also find Mina's interview on the (don't) Waste Water website: https://dww.show/18-months-left-to-close-the-gap-beware-the-water-clock-is-ticking/(opens in a new tab)Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Aaron Tartakovsky, CEO and Co-Founder of Epic Cleantec 💧 Epic Cleantec offers end-to-end service for the design, engineering, permitting, installation, and ongoing operations of onsite water reuse systems. What we covered: 🍎 How Water and Wastewater management has not changed much over the past two centuries 🍎 Hot the centralized water management approach may suffer from the increased loads if 70% of Humanity is to live in cities by 2050 🍏 How the Energy Sector can (again) be used as a guideline towards the Water Sector's future 🧮 How up to 95% of a building's water use can be covered with recycled water sources and onsite water reuse 🍏 How the byproducts of water in wastewater can provide tremendous value 🍏 How cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Austin lead the pack, with onsite water reuse regulations 🌱 How distributed water management will dramatically enhance the system's resilience by reducing interdependencies 🍏 How there's a last frontier to break: overcoming the "Yuck" factor - and how to do so 🤔 How Epic Cleantec addresses and discusses the problem more than the solution in their marketing - and why 🧮 How they actually treat the wastewater in buildings - and what's inside their "black box." 🍏 How Epic's system is deployed in a 20 story office in San Jose - and what this onsite water reuse enables 🍏 How "one size fits all" simply never applies in the Water Industry - and how Epic Cleantec deals with this 🧮 Business Model, GoTo Market routes, the secret to success as a disruptive start-up, Accumulating (well-deserved) Awards... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/central-water-management-networks-wont-handle-2050-time-for-an-epic-move-onsite-water-reuse/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Aaron Tartakovsky guides us through the challenges and opportunities around Water Management in Cities - from raving urbanization to outlasting our water networks through circular resource loops and onsite water reuse. 🎙️ Aaron Tartakovsky is the CEO and Co-Founder of Epic Cleantec. a company that offers end-to-end services for onsite water reuse systems. To discover the full interview, type "S4E3 - Central Water Management Networks won't Handle 2050. Time for an Epic Move?" You can also find Aaron's interview on the (don't) Waste Water website: https://dww.show/central-water-management-networks-wont-handle-2050-time-for-an-epic-move-onsite-water-reuse/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Gerald Pollack, Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, Founding Editor-in-Chief of the WATER research journal, Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science, and Author of - among other books - "The Fourth Phase of Water." 💧 The 4th Phase of Water, or Exclusion Water, is a semi-liquid or crystalline state of water that forms at the interface with hydrophilic surfaces. More on that in a second! What we covered: 🍏 How there's a fourth phase of Water, beyond solid, liquid, and gas 🌱 Where the 4th phase of Water forms, and how 🧮 How Light may be creating the Exclusion Zone Water (or EZ Water) 🧮 How the Fourth phase of Water bears a negative charge and thus may enable... a Water Battery! 🍏 How the 4th Phase of Water can be leveraged in the Water Industry 🍏 How the formation of EZ Water bears a surprising resemblance to the first step of Photosynthesis 📜 How Gerald Pollack's work follows in the steps of Boris Derjaguin's discovery of "Polywater" 😲 How Water is a surprisingly low investigated field of fundamental science (despite many water questions being still open) 🤔 How "Fourth Phase Water" somehow barely isn't Water anymore and could have been called "semi-liquid" or "crystalline water" 🍏 How like-charged particles may well attract each other without breaking any law of fundamental physics 🍎 How "EZ Water" opens the door to discuss esoteric water topics like the theories of Viktor Schauberger and Rudolf Steiner 🍏 How many known everyday phenomenons may be better explained through the lens of "EZ Water" 🧮 Challenging prestigious names and theories, advocating for a "Venture Science" approach to research, discussing the memory of Water, and so much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get a glimpse into the episode's matter with this video: https://youtu.be/UTnqiNMolpg ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/solid-liquid-gas-and-a-fourth-phase-of-water/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Gerald Pollack explores the fundamentals of Water for a couple of decades. In 2013 he published "the Fourth Phase of Water, Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Gas". Since then, he continued working on the matter, publishing over 300 scientific papers. 🎙️ Gerald Pollack is a professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the WATER research journal, the Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science, and the author of - among other books - "The Fourth Phase of Water." To discover the full interview, type "S4E2 - Solid, Liquid, Gas, And... A Fourth Phase of Water?!" Get a glimpse into the episode's matter with this video: https://youtu.be/UTnqiNMolpg You can also find Gerald's interview on the (don't) Waste Water website: https://dww.show/solid-liquid-gas-and-a-fourth-phase-of-water/(opens in a new tab)Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

SUEZ and VEOLIA shall merge by the end of this year (at least partially), after a long battle... that's apparently still not over! Let's review the previous steps. VEOLIA acquired 29.9% of SUEZ from ENGIE and tendered the remaining 70.1% last July. Everything fine? Well, on Friday 29/10, the French Justice announced, that they were investigating the role that the French Presidency played in this very first step. Did the Elysée Palast (and especially General Secretary Alexis Kohler) collude with ENGIE, VEOLIA, and MERIDIAM to agree on cutting SUEZ apart? And if yes, can it still slow down the process, or is it just another episode of a long drama? Let's quickly review while it's hot! 🔙 PREVIOUSLY on the SUEZ/VEOLIA story: 🔙 1) Drop the Bomb: May VEOLIA buy SUEZ? https://dww.show/behind-the-scenes-of-the-veolia-suez-bomb-will-it-really-happen/ 2) SUEZ & VEOLIA: Long Live the Newlyweds? https://youtu.be/-iA__IaJl48 Wanna join the discussion? Come tell me on LinkedIn! *** ➡️ Do you like this short format, answering one key question/topic? Let me know on LinkedIn! ➡️ Get the Full Podcast Series here: https://dww.show/ ➡️ Check the Video Version of this Bonus Episode: https://youtu.be/NZG7-VQ251MHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Henrik Hagemann is the CEO and Co-Founder of Puraffinity. 💧 Puraffinity is a GreenTech Company that designs smart materials for environmental applications. Their cutting-edge material design and creative engineering approach may provide a new horizon to solve the daunting PFAS / Forever chemicals challenge we face. What we covered: 🍎 What Polyfluoroalkyl Substances - or PFAS - actually are 🍎 How these PFAS enter the Water Cycle somewhen along the way but never exit it. In other words, they bioaccumulate in all of us! 🧮 How finding PFAS in >97% of people has consequences on health, wellbeing, and overall societal costs 🧮 How PFAS liabilities may also be a risk for the corporate world and Fortune 100 companies 🍏 How Puraffinity may light a bulb of hope in PFAS treatments, thanks to a sort of "Chemical Pacman" 🍏 How "Forever Chemicals" are only eternal because we don't take them seriously (yet)! 🌱 How PFAS could be reused and regenerated from the recycled solvent medium 🌱 How you can control PFAS flows, removals, and by-products (and how you need to go beyond LC-MS for that) 😲 How the bottleneck to PFAS treatments might be at an unexpected place: a shortage of operators 🍏 Where PFAS treatments shall ideally be located, and what shape they should take 🌱 How we shall move on from the human-centric approach to water treatment to also consider the price tag attached to biodiversity losses 🧮 How to best nudge the adoption of PFAS treatments, from regulations to market incentives through investor activism 🧮 How spinning off from academia to entrepreneurship involves a mindset shift and a readiness for war 🍏 Cycling across the World, studying with monks, time to adoption of new water technologies, being a Forbes 30 under 30 and MIT tech review 35 under 35... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-to-treat-pfas-out-of-water-and-protect-our-health-economy-and-biodiversity/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Puraffinity takes on the PFAS Challenge, with sound dedication, the best of GreenTech and some of the best brains there is in this industry. Not only does their peptide manage to remove PFAS, but it's also opening a door for a game-changer: recycle PFAS! 🎙️ Henrik Hagemann is the CEO and co-founder of Puraffinity. To discover the full interview, type "S4E1 - How to treat PFAS out of Water and protect our Health, Economy, and Biodiversity" You can also find Henrik's interview on the (don't) Waste Water website: https://dww.show/how-to-treat-pfas-out-of-water-and-protect-our-health-economy-and-biodiversity/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

You probably all know it as a fact: there are THREE phases of Water. But what if we challenged this? Gerald Pollack and his research team are formal: there is, indeed a Fourth Phase of Water! So, what is this 4th phase? Where can you find it? How does it form? What does it imply? We dive into Exclusion Water - or EZ Water, to understand how this discovery may change what we know of water and its role in many phenomenons. Wanna join the discussion? Come tell me on LinkedIn! *** ➡️ Do you like this short format, answering one key question/topic? Let me know on LinkedIn! ➡️ Get the Full Podcast Series here: https://dww.show/ ➡️ Check the Video Version of this Bonus Episode: https://youtu.be/UTnqiNMolpgHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Silvana Di Sabatino, Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Bologna, and coordinator of the OPERANDUM project. 💧 The OPERANDUM Project aims at delivering the tools and methods for the validation of Nature-Based Solutions as a way to enhance resilience in European rural and natural territories by reducing hydro-meteorological risks. What we covered: 🍏 What Open Air Laboratories are - and how they revisit the concept of Living Labs 🌱 How nature-based solutions are put to work in specific examples, and how they are monitored, evaluated and replicated 🧮 How OPERANDUM may enable and facilitate the market uptake of Blue-Green approaches by working on their business plan and replication packages 🧮 How Computational Fluid Dynamics and numeric models are a strong support to the OPERANDUM research project 🍏 How nature-based solutions are much more than the "Hippie Science" image they may convey 🍏 How important communication, pedagogy, and vulgarisation are for NBS to be widely accepted 🌱 How development stages of blue-green approaches differ from one country to another 🌱 How nature-based solutions induce a shift of paradigm, from CAPEX intensive grey approaches to OPEX intensive blue-green alternatives 🍏 The outlook on nature-based solutions, bringing all the stakeholders together, sharing an open platform, the importance of regulations... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Find the summary of this trilogy, around the #UnitedNations #Innovate4Cities Conference here: https://dww.show/innovate4cities/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/do-nature-based-solutions-work-these-new-case-studies-will-verify-it/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The H2020 OPERANDUM project aims to deliver the tools and methods for the validation of Nature-Based Solutions. This shall enhance resilience in European rural and natural territories by reducing hydro-meteorological risks. 🎙️ Silvana Di Sabatino is a Professor of Atmospheric Physics, in charge of the coordination of the OPERANDUM project. To discover the full interview, type "S3E20 - Do Nature-Based Solutions Work? These New Case Studies Will Verify It!" You can also find Silvana's interview on the (don't) Waste Water website: https://dww.show/do-nature-based-solutions-work-these-new-case-studies-will-verify-it/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Marc Barra, Urban Ecologist specializing in nature-based solutions at Paris' Agency for Biodiversity, in charge of the H2020 REGREEN project. 💧 The REGREEN Project promotes urban livability through fostering nature-based solutions in Europe and China using evidence-based tools and improved urban governance to accelerate the transition towards green, equitable and healthy cities. What we covered: 🍏 How we're experiencing a shift of paradigm in engineering practices, from grey approaches to blue-green and hybrid solutions 🧮 How nature-based solutions shall be evaluated on their ability to deliver one-to-one equivalent results to hard engineering 🌱 How REGREEN aims at quantifying the welcome side-effects of nature-based solutions in cities 🔍 How Urban Living Labs support the scientific approach towards REGREEN 🍎 How Paris' international and domestic image may differ when it comes to ecology, biodiversity, and climate action 🧮 How we shall move beyond the monetary quantification of nature-based solutions 🌱 How we shall pave the way towards the economy of limits and biosphere, through economic and market incentives 🧮 ... And how regulations may still be a surer way to complete the transformation than market incentives 🍏 How there's a lot of technology in Nature's functions and processes, and how it's crucial to understand and grasp it 🌱 How you will have to embrace uncertainty and accept that Nature rules overall 🍏 But also Veblen Effect, Over-Confidence in Hard Engineering, Ecology beyond the buzzword, Carrying the message across, and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Find the summary of this trilogy, around the #UnitedNations #Innovate4Cities Conference here: https://dww.show/innovate4cities/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/can-nature-based-solutions-better-protect-cities-from-soaring-environmental-risks/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The H2020 REGREEN project aims to promote urban livability thanks to blue-green nature-based solutions. It thus accelerates the transition towards healthy, green and equitable cities! 🎙️ Marc Barra is an Urban Ecologist specializing in nature-based solutions at the Paris Agency for Biodiversity, in charge of the H2020 REGREEN project. To discover the full interview, type "S3E19 - Can Nature-Based Solutions Better Protect Cities from Soaring Environmental Risks?" You can also find Marc's interview on the (don't) Waste Water website: https://dww.show/can-nature-based-solutions-better-protect-cities-from-soaring-environmental-risks/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ James Murray, MGSDP Manager at the Glasgow City Council 💧 the Metropolitan Glasgow Strategic Drainage Partnership (MGSDP) thinks about and manages rainfall to end uncontrolled flooding and improve water quality. What we covered: 🍏 How the Glasgow Region built upon the 2002 flood to turn its water management approach on its head 🍏 How they decided to leverage nature-based solutions and sustainable urban drainage systems 🌱 How you can't put nature in a box, and what that implies when it comes to NBS 🍎 The perks and pitfalls of Blue-Green approaches 🧮 How confusing it can be to understand the meaning behind a return period of "once in a century" 🌦️ How climate change affects the frequency and intensity of meteorological events 🔍 How Nature-Based Solutions come with a wealth of welcome side effects: improving mental health, fostering biodiversity, limiting urban heat, or enhancing the air quality 🍏 How a smart approach enhances the overall system by feeding it the right data 🍎 How Sustainable Drainage can create tensions over land use, and what to do to overcome those 🍏 Glasgow's long ball game, adapting regulations, COP 26, public education... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Find the summary of this trilogy, around the #UnitedNations #Innovate4Cities Conference here: https://dww.show/innovate4cities/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-to-manage-flooding-and-improve-water-quality-without-steel-concrete-and-hard-engineering/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The Metropolitan Glasgow Strategic Drainage Partnership manages rainfall to end uncontrolled flooding and improve water quality by leveraging nature-based solutions 🎙️ James Murray, MGSDP Manager at the Glasgow City Council shares how the Glasgow Region managed the aftermath of the 2002 flood to innovate in the approach to water, leverage nature-based solutions, build blue-green infrastructure and involve everybody To discover the full interview, type "S3E18 - How to Manage Flooding and Improve Water Quality without Steel, Concrete and Hard Engineering" You can also find James' interview on the (don't) Waste Water website: https://dww.show/how-to-manage-flooding-and-improve-water-quality-without-steel-concrete-and-hard-engineering/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

You read it right: in order to be affordable, water needs to be more expensive. Counter-intuitive, right? Yet, like it or not, the safe supply of drinking water at our tap is the most affordable way to solve our need for Water. And that comes with some costs, that shall be covered through Water Tariffs... in order to push out of business "Water Dealers" of all kinds! In this Bonus Episode, we're covering: 🍏 Water Tariffs around the World 🍏 Understanding Water's Cost 🍏 Who shall Pay for Water? 🍏 Objection 1: How Dare you Set a Price on Water? 🍏 Objection 2: What about Affordability? 🍏 Why Water Tariffs shall be Higher 🍏 A Path for (affordable) #WaterForAll 🍏 How is Water Financed, if not through Tariffs? 🍏 The Problem with Taxes and Transfers 🍏 The Welcome Side Effects of Water Tariffs 🍏 Why Ireland may be wrong Wanna join the discussion? Come tell me on LinkedIn! Wanna discuss it even more? Join our next live on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPZudJFMCnM&t=0s *** ➡️ Do you like this short format, answering one key question/topic? Let me know on LinkedIn! ➡️ Get the Full Podcast Series here: https://dww.show/ ➡️ Check the Video Version of this Bonus Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O64yjHCtizEHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Alan Condron, Scientific Researcher and Climate Modeller at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 💧 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is the world's leading, independent non-profit organization dedicated to ocean research, exploration, and education. What we covered: 🍏 How Iceberg drift in oceans can be modeled and what can be learned from it 🍏 How large an Iceberg shall be upon arrival in Cape Town, to cover 20% of the city's water needs 🧮 How that Iceberg would behave all along a towing route that would lead it from Antarctica to South Africa 🍎 How challenging it would be, to harvest the Iceberg's water upon arrival 🔍 The ecological impacts of an Iceberg tow 🍎 The bigger picture around Day Zero and Water Scarcity in arid places in the world, like Cape Town 🔍 How the ecological impacts of a one-time tow are probably negligible while the consequences of a repeated commercial-scale activity would have to be studied 🍏 How a successful proof of concept would enable verifying theory and possibly build the suited infrastructure to extract the best out of the Iceberg. 🍎 How an Iceberg tow to Dubai is a different game than a southern hemisphere destination 🍏 The financial equation of an Iceberg towing project, the scientific approach that would enable us to learn from the first tow, Nick Sloane's project... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/a-climate-modellers-truth-on-the-controversial-project-of-iceberg-harvesting/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the world’s leader in ocean discovery, exploration, and education, working to understand and sustain one of humanity’s most precious common resources. 🎙️ Alan Condron, Scientific Researcher, and Climate Modeller at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shares the outcomes of his research and modeling of an Iceberg's route from Antarctica to Cape Town. He addresses advantages and drawbacks, what we know and what we ignore (and it's fascinating!) To discover the full interview, type "S3E17 - A Climate Modeller's Truth on the Controversial Project of Iceberg Harvesting" You can also find Alan's interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/a-climate-modellers-truth-on-the-controversial-project-of-iceberg-harvesting/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Olivier Narbey, Senior Business Development Manager - Water Network Performance at GF Piping Systems 💧 GF Piping System is the leading flow solutions provider across the World. What we covered: 🍎 How Non-Revenue Water represents 126 billion cubic meters a year and an achievable saving potential of $37 billion a year 🍎 How the Non-Revenue Water (NRW) question is intricate and multi-faceted 🧮 How Water you lose on your network not only represents a direct cost but also an indirect one, as you have to produce new water accordingly 🍏 How innovative solutions like pressure reduction and control on the Water Network can reduce the Water Utilities' headache when it comes to non-revenue water 🍎 How from a certain point, you shall stop repairing and start rebuilding or replacing your network 🍎 How many problems come from parts of the networks that were supposed to be disconnected (but were not) 🧮 How managing a network is a long ball game, where you're juggling with limited budgets and compensating with time and delays 🍎 How low renewal rates mean expected lifetimes for your piping network which are way above what's reasonably feasible 🍏 How cutting your network into District Meter Areas (DMAs) and District Meter Zones (DMZs) helps you identifying leaks 🔍 How managing a network has much to do with forensics, and how you shall exploit every occasion to see the "body" 🍏 The three ways to regulate pressure on a water network 🍏 Water management in Algeria, Mozambique, or Vatican, Adoption curve for pressure regulating devices, Teaming up with an Oxford University spin-off... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Olivier Narbey on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivier-narbey-b6392610/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-to-save-136-trillion-liters-a-year-solve-non-revenue-water/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

GF Piping Systems is, besides the proud sponsor of this podcast, a world leader in flow solutions. It produces and markets a water network pressure management solution that aims to reduce non-revenue water, fight water scarcity and improve water network performance. 🎙️ Olivier Narbey, SBDM Water Network Performance at GF Piping Systems shares why reducing non-revenue water involves much more than the "low-hanging fruit" metaphor it often gets compared with. With a wealth of real-life examples and a sound passion, he goes into the depth of the intricate problem of water network performance! To discover the full interview, type "S3E16 - How To Save 136 Trillion Liters A Year? Solve Non-Revenue Water!" You can also find Olivier's interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/how-to-save-136-trillion-liters-a-year-solve-non-revenue-water/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This is of course very subjective. But how did we go from "hardly treated" to "treated hardly" in a bit over a century? Because it was the right thing to do, sure. But also, because of some pioneers! I made a top 5 - but I'm also sharing the ones, that could have made it to the top, and didn't do by a nose. So, here are our 5 most influential people, according to my book: 5️ The Man who defied a US President 4️ The Water Detective that triggered an Industry Revolution 3️ The Man that triggered desalination - and got a dismal reward 2️ The Man that made Drinking Water "Pure and Wholesome" 1️ The Technology, that's somehow in my garden Do you have more? Come tell me on LinkedIn! *** ➡️ Do you like this short format, answering one key question/topic? Let me know on LinkedIn! ➡️ Get the Full Podcast Series here: https://dww.show/ ➡️ Check the Video Version of this Bonus Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGmDSZSJ_LsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Abdulla Alshehhi, Managing Director of National Advisor Bureau Limited, CEO of Q2 General Cleaning, and Business Support Section Head at GASCO 💧 National Advisor Bureau Limited leverages creativity and innovation to be a leading Consultant Firm For start-up businesses & Established Companies What we covered: 🌱 How to green a desert, you need a magical substance: Water! 🍏 How an Idea extensively investigated in the 1970s to bring and Iceberg in the Arab peninsula may now really become feasible 🍏 How Antarctic Icebergs may represent a sound source of water for the ever-increasing water needs of the World 🍎 How Water Scarcity is an intricate problem, and how it is not going to ease down with Global Warming 🛗 How Abdulla's project interacts and leverages the other initiatives around 🍏 How he ambitions to run the first Iceberg tow to a southern hemisphere city like Perth or Cape Town 🍏 How the first to actually tow an iceberg to a thirsty place of the world will make history. 🍎 How iceberg water may be a welcome replacement for desalinated water, which comes with a wealth of environmental side-effects 🍎 How the water industry reacted to the project 🍏 How much an actual Icerberg tow would cost, and how that translates in terms of cost per gallon/liter 🍏 How, ecologically speaking, an Iceberg tow is a drop in the ocean with limited if any environmental impact 🌧️ How the presence of the Iceberg along the Fujairah coast may create a positive microclimate 🍏 How the United Nations are considering the idea as an unconventional water resource 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Abdulla Alshehhi on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdulla2alshehi/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/the-magical-substance-you-need-to-green-a-desert-actually-comes-from-antarctica/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

National Advisor Bureau Limited carries an ambitious project for the United Arab Emirates: harvesting and towing an Iceberg to crush it for its water, and eventually green a desert on the long run. 🎙️ Abdulla Alshehhi, Managing Director at National Advisor Bureau Limited, shares the ins and outs of his iceberg project, from the rationale to the actual plan, through the obstacles to overcome and the international reaction. To discover the full interview, type "S3E15 - The Magical Substance you need to Green a Desert actually comes from Antarctica" You can also find Abdulla's interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/the-magical-substance-you-need-to-green-a-desert-actually-comes-from-antarctica/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Alexander Loucopoulos, Partner at both Sciens Capital Management and Sciens Water 💧 Sciens Water is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood opportunities in the water sector that are hence undercapitalized. What we covered: 🌱 How Water - maybe against the odds - is a very big growth market! 🍎 As teased in the title: the 3 main challenges US water companies face today 🍏 How Sciens Water leverages institutional capital from many investors worldwide to trigger an impact on the Water Industry 🍏 How public awareness shall generate a change in the approach to Water in the future 🌱 How hypergrowth is possible in the Water Industry, yet not in a Twitter or Uber fashion 🧮 How bottled water may well overtake utility water in the residential segment; it doesn't necessarily matter when you put it in perspective with the much larger industrial and agriculture pieces of the puzzle 🍏 How water doesn't work in isolation: just look beyond the silo 🍎 How the Water space very much resembles an orchestra, currently producing a cacophonous noise. 🍏 The distributed benefits of Water, Water as an investment good, Financial and Societal benefits not being mutually exclusive... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Alexander Loucopoulos on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-loucopoulos-66780/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/the-3-painful-challenges-the-us-water-sector-desperately-needs-to-overcome/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Sciens Water is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood opportunities in the water sector that are hence undercapitalized. 🎙️ Alexander Loucopoulos, Partner at both Sciens Capital Management and Sciens Water, shares how he aims to solve the three major challenges the US Water Market currently faces. To discover the full interview, type "S3E14 - The 3 Painful Challenges the US Water Sector Desperately Needs to Overcome" You can also find Alex's interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/the-3-painful-challenges-the-us-water-sector-desperately-needs-to-overcome/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

With Global Warming around, the Idea of Iceberg Towing to produce Drinking Water sounded to me as - at best - opportunistic. That's where I was wrong! What if I told you, that out of the wide array of possible options, the one consisting of towing an iceberg from Antarctica to the aridest places of the World (Dubai, Perth, Cape Town...) may well be much less insane than what you thought? Seriously. The World will miss 40% of its needed Water in 2030. It's maybe time to get creative, so suspend your disbelief: Iceberg Water may REALLY be a sustainable solution! From the Emirates to South Africa, through the USA, France, and Antarctica, I went down the Rabbit Hole. *** ➡️ Do you like this short format, answering one key question/topic? Let me know on LinkedIn! ➡️ Get the Full Podcast Series here: https://dww.show/ ➡️ Check the Video Version of this Bonus Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOgFFknM4EHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ David Lloyd Owen, Managing Director of Envisager, Columnist for Global Water Intelligence, Advisor on several boards, and author of "Global Water Funding." 💧 In his Global Water Funding book, David Lloyd Owen discusses global progress towards fulfilling SDG 6, proposes alternative solutions to lack of funding, and examines the reasons why countries are failing at implementing safe and sustainable water and sanitation for all. What we covered: 🍎 How the World is late not only on achieving SDG 6 but also on aligning to start working on it 🧮 How out of the three possible paths to solve the Global Water Funding challenge, only one is likely to happen 🍏 The ins and outs of Getting more Funds, Adopting adapted Water Tariffs and Doing More with Less 🌱 A breath of hope with Success Cases to replicate to set ourselves up to fulfill SDG 6 🧮 How numbers can be tricky, considering that only the 'best pupils' usually answer surveys and share data 🍎 How water is a political good that can serve much broader ambitions than just satisfy the thirst of people 🍏 How Denmark can be considered the international benchmark when it comes to water preservation and management 🍏 How Chile turned its entire Water Management on its head, thanks to political will - hence becoming another benchmark 💥 How the current level of Funding in the Water Sector not only fails to reach the SDG6 but also won't allow maintaining current service levels 💥 How non-utility water will surpass utility water when it comes to Funding by the end of the current SDG cycle, and how that may trigger a negative spiral, ultimately becoming an existential threat 🍏 How the lowest hanging fruit may be cutting non-revenue water, currently representing 77 liters per day and capita in the World. 🍏 Private Vs. Public, Decentralized Treatments, Reuse Vs. Desalination, Populism, next writing topics... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to David Lloyd Owen on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-lloyd-owen-24675a2/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/3-paths-to-reach-sdg-6-by-2050-all-our-hopes-are-on-3/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

SDG 6 was supposed to be reached in 2030. It's currently progressing at 25% the speed it should if we were to reach it. 🎙️ David Lloyd Owen, Managing Director of Envisager, Columnist for Global Water Intelligence, Advisor on several boards, and author of "Global Water Funding," shares some ideas to speed things up, and finally, reach the sustainable development goal number six! To discover the full interview, type "S3E13 - 3 Paths to Reach SDG 6 by 2050: All Our Hopes are on #3!" in your favorite podcatcher's research bar! You can also find David's full interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/3-paths-to-reach-sdg-6-by-2050-all-our-hopes-are-on-3/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Lea Im Obersteg, Head of Global Design Thinking @ GF Piping Systems 💧 GF Piping Systems is the leading flow solutions provider across the World. What we covered: 🌱 How Design Thinking is a powerful approach to problem-solving 💡 How it can help companies of all sizes to beef up their innovation 🍏 A walk through the stages of a Design Thinking project 💥 A counter-intuitive demonstration that the faster you fail, the better it is 🍏 The common traits and differences between Design Thinking, Growth Hacking, Agile, Kanban (and many other methodologies) 🍏 How the "Design" in "Design Thinking" may be misleading 🤖 How design thinking applies to problems that involve humans and users, not in purely technical cases. 🍏 How to design a prototype with regards to the hypothesis you want to verify 🧮 How you shall carefully select the problem you'd like to solve 🌱 How starting small is the surest way to deliver 🍏 How hierarchy still plays a role within an Innovation Project 🍎 How to avoid a cultural clash when implementing Design Thinking into an existing organization with a strong history 3️⃣ The three very actionable tools you can apply from tomorrow on to beef up your innovation. 🍏 But also risk-taking, daring, teaming up, questioning beliefs, adding the Planet as a stakeholder, and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Lea Im Obersteg on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leaimobersteg/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/design-thinking-will-make-you-fail-faster-thats-exactly-what-you-need/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Design Thinking is a methodology and a tool in the toolbox. But beyond the tool, it's about the execution: how you do it, how you prepare the playground for your teams to go crazy. 🎙️ Lea Im Obersteg, Head of Global Design Thinking @ GF Piping Systems shares how a 219 old company implemented Design Thinking, and what you can learn or adapt from it. To discover the full interview, type "S3E12 - Design Thinking Will Make You Fail Faster: That's Exactly What You Need!" in your favorite podcatcher's research bar! You can also find Lea's interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/design-thinking-will-make-you-fail-faster-thats-exactly-what-you-need/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

You may be the world's two largest Water Companies, yet have quite a terrible track record when it comes to Mergers and Acquisitions. 😅 What's your favorite Fail: - When Veolia divided its M&A money by 10 in 4 years? - or when SUEZ did twice the same move, 20 years apart, for hopefully a different outcome? - or when "Jean-Marie Messier, Me, Myself, Master of the World" took his nickname a bit too seriously? SUEZ and VEOLIA may end up happily married. ... but only if they learn from their past failures 😉 00:00 Introduction 00:50 Why would a Water Company go for M&A? 06:06 Flop n°3 - VEOLIA & US Filter 10:25 Flop n°2 - SUEZ & Nalco 15:49 Flop n°1 - VEOLIA & Universal *** ➡️ Do you like this short format, answering one key question/topic? Let me know on LinkedIn! ➡️ Get the Full Podcast Series here: https://dww.show/ ➡️ Check the Video Version of this Bonus Episode: https://youtu.be/SMSN7T8DYdkHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Gilles Toussaint, Founder @ GT Impact and Host of the "Mission First - Entrepreneurs for Future" podcast 💧 GT Impact strives to help Greentech companies to increase their revenue with efficient growth marketing sprints and data-driven content marketing What we covered: 🌱 In a nutshell: the ins and outs of marketing and growing a Greentech Company 🍏 How you cannot have an impact if you don't make a lot of profit 🍏 How profit is a key performance indicator for the magnitude at which you solve your customer problems 📈 What's to like and use in the growth marketing world 🍎 A friendly warming on the mermaid's song that growth hacking can be 🍏 When you shall start your marketing effort and where to begin 🍏 What framework you shall follow to feed your growth and which specific stage will be your unexpected underdog 🍎 What usual mistakes most of the companies do around tradeshows and what to do instead 🍏 How entrepreneurship timelines and tactics evolved 🍏 The 4 LinkedIn post types that will sky-rocket your reach 🍏 But also several examples of companies Gilles worked with, finding the most valuable business case, applying the same universal principles to B2C and B2B, the perks of brand and personal branding, and so, much, more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Gilles Toussaint on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillestoussaint/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/a-5-boost-on-this-growth-funnel-step-easily-makes-95-more-profit-jackpot/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

"I find it crazy to spend 50'000 euros to go on a trade show, and not spend at least 5'000 euros in digital marketing in parallel!" 🎙️ Gilles Toussaint, Founder @ GT Impact and Host of the "Mission First - Entrepreneurs for Future" podcast, shares his surprise, seeing how companies market themselves. To discover the full interview, type "S3E11 - A 5% Boost on This Growth Funnel Step Easily Makes 95% More Profit. Jackpot?" in your favorite podcatcher's research bar! You can also find Gilles' interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/a-5-boost-on-this-growth-funnel-step-easily-makes-95-more-profit-jackpot/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Jim Lauria, VP Sales and Marketing @ Mazzei Injector Company 💧 Mazzei Injector Company is a global leader in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of venturi injectors, flash reactors, and other high-efficiency mixing technologies and ozone diffusion systems. What we covered: 🍏 How Jim and his team at Mazzei went on a quest to find out how to optimize ozone diffusion to maximize water treatment efficiency 🍏 What ozone diffusion actually is, and what fine bubble ozone diffusers and ozone sidestream injection are 🍏 The differences between those two main ozone diffusion types when it comes to investment, energy, and operations & maintenance 🍏 How diffusion influences the formation of carcinogenic bromates from pre-existent bromine and what to do to reduce your risk here 🍏 The influence of Process Automation on the Operating Costs and Capital Investment of an Ozone plant and how you shall account for Total Cost of Ownership when designing your ozone diffusers 🍏 How ozone generator efficiencies may be reaching an asymptote 🍏 How new sensor technologies open new avenues for optimization 🍏 How it may be challenging to break industry habits and how that may be integral to the vital nature of the water sector 🍏 How modeling can open new horizons for ozone applications, ozone diffusion systems, and wider risk-taking 🍏 How water reuse may become the new largest application of ozone treatments 🍏 How important it is to regularly upgrade your knowledge by following on your existing customers 🍏 But also how nothing exists in a vacuum, how you shall beware of seeing everything as a nail when you have a hammer, advanced oxidation processes, modular ozone generation, and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Jim Lauria on Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/jimlauria/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/choosing-the-best-suited-ozone-diffusion-system-what-does-data-say/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

How can it be, that Bottled Water will surpass Tap Water in 2034? Believe it or not, the World will soon spend more on #BottledWater than on #UtilityWater. But where does this come from? How did a sector that was supposed to die at the beginning of the twentieth-century recover and boom in the 1970s? And how is all of this linked with the global inability to align ourselves towards #SDG6? 00:00 Bottle Water takes over from 2034 on! 00:24 The origins of Bottled Water 01:06 Bottled Water shall have died in the 1900s 01:33 A French Revolution: Perrier 02:59 Bottled Water: a Veblen Good? 03:49 Creating a Market Category 04:23 Water in Bottles has neither better taste nor improved safety 05:30 New (Luxury) Bottled Water Brands 06:16 The link between Bottled Water and SDG6 07:24 Beyond the Bottled Vs. Tap Water debate 08:27 Can Point of Use be a better solution? 09:29 Point of Use Vs. Bottled Water in the Developed World 10:17 ... and in the Developing World 11:22 From Point of Use to the Micro-Utility 11:51 Conclusion *** ➡️ Do you like this short format, answering one key question/topic? Let me know on LinkedIn! ➡️ Get the Full Podcast Series here: https://dww.show/ ➡️ Check the Video Version of this Bonus Episode: https://youtu.be/9f1OclxC6EYHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Hasmik Barseghyan, President of the European Youth Parliament for Water, among other strategic roles at the World Water Quality Alliance, the World Energy Council, the International Secretariat for Water, or Woman in Climate and Energy. 💧 The EYPW aims to promote youth involvement in the water sector by increasing their awareness of water resource management issues and by fostering an understanding of citizenship and democracy. What we covered: 🍏 How young voices like Camille Etienne, Luisa Neubauer, Leah Namugerwa, or Greta Thunberg lead a (green) revolution 🍏 How success can be defined as the point in time where the cause stays even if the leaders disappear 🍏 How young people have much to say if we ensure that their voices are heard 🍎 How young water professionals might not be numerous enough, which may result in missing human capital 💪 How COP26 may be a good occasion to tell the world how much leaders and countries value sustainable development 🍏 How ambition and "doing good" in the Water and Sanitation sector boils down to reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goal n°6 🍏 How you have to be unhappy to finally realize how happy you were 🍏 How Water may be used as a weapon in political or economic conflicts - and how human rights to Water in conflict zones should be embedded in political agreements 🍏 How initiatives like the Blue Peace Movement enable young people from the same river catchment to work together 🍏 How Water is more scarce than oil - even if we speak more about oil than Water. 🍏 How we need to find the right way to live with nature, to benefit from its positive health impact, effectiveness, and overall well-being increases 🍏 But also, building to last, passing the torch, the burden of climate change on women, human capital development, and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Hasmik Barseghyan on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hasmikbarseghyan5590/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-to-speak-up-and-empower-more-young-water-professionals/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Denise E Mall, Managing Director of EnsO Earth 💧 EnsO Earth focuses on the intersection of living futures, biomimicry, circularity, and ecological design thinking to go beyond sustainable towards regenerative solutions. What we covered: 🍏 How we can learn from nature and apply the best of what it developed through 3.8 million years of R&D 🍏 What Biomimicry is all about, and how down that path you'll find Net Positive Water 🍏 How EnsO Earth created the Living Machine and the Living Building concepts 🍏 How Janine Benyus ignited the "sacred fire" that steers Denise towards creating a better planet for her great-great children 🍏 How becoming an Engineer as a woman is still not as much of a common path as being a teacher, a lawyer, or a nurse 🍏 How most of the pollution can be traced back to humans, pouring chemistry into nature 🍏 How there is no such thing as "waste" in nature, but only valuable building blocks and natural resources. 🍏 How we're kind of stupidly using drinking water for water applications that don't require at all such a level of purity 🍏 How it is our collective responsibility to sort the mess we've created 🍏 How "Day Zero" may sadly become much more common all around the Planet 🍏 How transposing the International Space Station's water management to earth is only a matter of financial equation - and how we value water stress. 🍏 Biophilic environmental connection, the power of plants, all being organs of a bigger body, working on reality, not fiction, and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Denise Mall on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denise-e-mall-ensoearth/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-biomimicry-leverages-the-best-of-3-8-million-years-of-research-and-developmentHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

How big is Sustainable Development as an opportunity? Well according to a United Nation's study, tremendous: - $12 trillion/year of created value (10% of the World's Economy!) - 380 Million new Jobs - 90% of these being in developing countries BUT WAIT! We might well miss that terrific chance if we don't act now... 00:00 The Usual Narrative on #SDG6 00:30 What are the UN SDGs? 01:17 Sustainability is a $12 Trillion/Year Opportunity 02:23 Opportunity 1: Fixing Water Leakages 03:10 Opportunity 2: Water and Sanitation for All 04:14 Reaping the Opportunity 05:03 Subsidies as a Negative Externality 06:53 Water as a Spending Sector 08:12 Public Banks as a solution 08:48 Helped by Blended Finance 09:16 Conclusion *** ➡️ Do you like this short format, answering one key question/topic? Let me know on LinkedIn! ➡️ Get the Full Podcast Series here: https://dww.show/ ➡️ Check the Video Version of this Bonus Episode: https://youtu.be/l5Na3aT3o4UHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Meena Sankaran, CEO and Founder of KETOS. 💧 KETOS ambitions to transform how water operators measure, manage and forecast water quality and efficiency in Industrial, Agricultural, and Municipal applications. What we covered: 🍏 How digitization is everywhere but in the Water Industry, and how that may be swiftly changing 🍎 How Water Quality and especially Heavy Metal Ions is still a blind spot in many industrial and agricultural applications 🍏 How KETOS' vertically integrates from Hardware to Software in a quite unique take at Water Quality digitization - and how that all came from thorough market research 🍏 How KETOS markets monitoring as a service in a zero-money-down approach 🍎 How growing an innovative hardware-based business in the water sector as a woman solo-founder is a challenging sum of hurdles - to say the least 💪 How Grit, Resilience, and Passion are the three most essential traits of a successful entrepreneur 🍏 How fascinating it is for operators to start leveraging the "power of knowledge" 🍀 How growth is a by-product of solving deep and vivid market pains, and how circular models are the best platform for growth 🍏 How committed Meena is to reveal women's inner strength (W.IN.S) regardless of their career path and background 🍏 But also: presenting the SDG6 at the United Nations, Social Entrepreneurship, CoVid 19 leapfrogging digitization, and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Meena Sankaran on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meenas/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/is-software-to-measure-water-quality-actually-a-matter-of-hardware/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Alice Schmidt, MBA lecturer, Adviser to the European Commission, and non-profit organizations like Extinction Rebellion, Protect our Winters, and Chair of the Board of Endeva e.V. with 🎙️ Claudia Winkler, CEO, and co-founder of Goood Mobile, Europe's first B-Corp Certified telecom provider, and a Founding Partner of Adjacent Possible Network. 💧 Alice and Claudia are the Authors of "the Sustainability Puzzle," a must-read addressing how systems thinking, circularity, climate action, and social transformation can improve health, wealth, and wellbeing for all. What we covered: 🍏 How that achieving the UN Sustainable Development goals represents a 12 trillion dollars growth opportunity 🍎 How the Fossil Fuel Industry received 420 billion dollars a year of subsidies over the past decade 🍎 How we'll produce more food between now and 2050 than in all the last 8'000 years combined 🍏 What to do about those facts and how to connect the dot by zooming out 🍎 How our systems must evolve, and how even recent concepts like the triple bottom may already be outdated 🍏 A load of very actionable bits of advice you can start using today 🍎 How as uncool as it sounds, some of the solutions for the future can be found in the past 🍏 How "Save ourselves!" is probably a much better message than "Save the Planet!" 🍏 We're 7 billion creative people on this planet, that could do much to make it a better world for all of us 🍎 How solving the Sustainability Puzzle may not be enough, given the point we've reached - and what to do instead 🍏 But also: Greenwashing, Apocalypse Porn, Need for Regulations, Crafting the right stories, Culture as the fourth bottom line, and SO - MUCH - MORE! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Alice on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliceschmidt/ ➡️ Then do the same with Claudia on LinkedIn as well: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-winkler/ 🔗 Check the Sustainability Puzzle's website: https://www.sustainability-puzzle.org/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/1001-reasons-why-the-sustainability-puzzle-is-a-unique-opportunity/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

in this new #Water101 Segment, we go back to the roots of Ozone Treatment! How was it discovered? By whom? Who first domesticated it? For what? Why is it used in Water Treatment? How did Technological Evolution help its market penetration? What else shall you know about ozone? *** ➡️ Do you like this short format, answering one key question/topic? Let me know on LinkedIn! ➡️ Get the Full Podcast Series here: https://dww.show/ ➡️ Check the Video Version of this Bonus Episode: https://youtu.be/6Aj6IwKXXsEHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Florian Heeb & Julian Kölbel - Researchers @ the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) in Zürich 💧 CSP is an academic research and teaching institution at the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich. What we covered: 🍏 The two types of Impact - and what Impact Investing can trigger 🍏 How Impact Investing can grow green companies 🍏 How Sustainable Finance can make Brown Companies Greener 🍏 How Impact Investors can act as activists for change 🍏 How the tobacco example reminds us that screening strategies are limited by the barriers to change 🍏 How there are always sin stock funds to counterbalance green stock funds - and how those perform unfortunately stupidly well 🍏 How impact investing worldwide is still of the same magnitude as subsidies to the Fossil Fuel Sector 🍏 How the recent Swiss referendum on CO2 law, ignited by a fossil fuel companies industrial group, proves that there is still a long way to go 🍏 How pension funds could leverage their long-term positions in companies to foster an attitude change towards regulation 🍏 How diversification across the three mechanisms probably offers the best yield 🍏 Creating a special water activist fund, accelerating early water companies' growth, creating new business models, taking risks... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Florian Heeb on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fheeb/ ➡️ Send your warm regards to Julian Kölbel on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-koelbel/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/3-powerful-tactics-impact-investing-shall-better-use-to-save-the-world/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Navkaran Singh Bagga - Founder & CEO @ Akvo Atmospheric Water Systems 💧 Akvo produces Water from Air, aka Limitless Water from Unlimited Air What we covered: 🍏 How water may be a bit less scarce than we all thought, considering there are 140 trillion liters of water up in the air at any point in time 🍏 How the decentralized nature of Water from Air is an enabler for the solution to grow 🍏 How AKVO refined and optimized a pretty simple technology 🍏 Key Hints on the best ingredients to get your water innovations adopted by the early and late majorities 🍏 How Water from Air is by no means a silver bullet - it only has the potential to solve the water challenges of 3 billion people 🍏 How competition in your markets and applications is a good sign that you're on the right track 🍏 How paying for water is still not a given, and how challenging it is to explain that you're charging for the technology, not the resource. 🍏 The perks of being a bootstrapped business 🍏 How AKVO tripled its size in the past three years and how Navkaran expects his company to triple again by the end of this year 🍏 How the company ambitions to turn Water from Air into Atmospheric Water Generation as a Service 🍏 International expansion, prepaid water distribution, fighting boredom and much more 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Navkaran Singh Bagga on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsbagga/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/is-water-from-air-actually-a-scam-or-a-gift-youll-be-astounded/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Paul O'Callaghan, Gaetane Suzenet, Megan Glover (& Antoine Walter) Hypergrowth is everywhere in today's world! 🚀 Never in history have unicorns been created at a similar pace. Right now, there are over 700 of them. 🦄 And among those 700+, how many in the Water Sector? Well... 0. You can enlarge it to the entire environmental sector, it's still 0. How is this even possible? 🤔 Are hypergrowth tactics aliens to the Water Industry? Is there a disconnect between Venture Capitalists and Water Entrepreneurs? Oh, by the way, Venture Capital, Hypergrowth, Unicorns... shouldn't we define all of those? Experts Gaetane Suzenet (Founder of the European Water Tech Accelerator), Megan Glover (CEO & Founder of 120Water), and Paul O'Callaghan (CEO & Founder of BlueTech Research) join forces to answer these questions! *** ➡️ Do you like this short format, answering one key question/topic? Let me know on LinkedIn! ➡️ Get the Full Podcast Series here: https://dww.show/ ➡️ Dive deeper into the topic with Gaetane Suzenet: https://dww.show/is-entrepreneurship-the-missing-link-to-shape-the-future-of-the-water-industry/ ➡️ ... or with Megan Glover: https://dww.show/whats-hidden-in-your-tap-water-dont-worry-your-utility-doesnt-really-know-better/ ➡️ ... or with Paul O'Callaghan: https://dww.show/how-long-will-it-take-to-grow-the-4-stages-of-water-innovation/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Paul O'Callaghan - Founder & CEO @ BlueTech Research 💧 BlueTech Research analyzes innovative water technologies to transform your company. 💧 Paul is also the executive producer & co-director of Netflix's "Brave Blue World." 💧 ... and as he noticed, that he still had some time on Saturdays, he just completed a Ph.D. on the Dynamics of Water Innovation! What we covered: 🍏 How long and what stages it takes for Water Innovations to exit the no man's land and cross the chasm 🍏 What are the milestones you shall identify on your path to guide you on the quest to mass market 🍏 Three Key Fields that attract 73% of investments to jumpstart your water venture 🍏 Key Hints on the best ingredients to get your water innovations adopted by the early and late majorities 🍏 How to get Netflix, Liam Neeson, Matt Damon and Jayden Smith to root for a Water Project 🍏 How claiming to bring innovation to life is as broad as saying you want to get a gold medal in the Olympics - you need to know first in which sport you're competing 🍏 How "Done" is better than "Perfect" and how "good enough" approaches may solve big hurdles in the Water Sector 🍏 How and Why there's more money spent in California every year on bottled water than on utility water 🍏 How everything looks like a nail if you only have a hammer - aka we might need new paradigms to solve the upcoming water challenges 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Paul O'Callaghan on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/o2environmental/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here : https://dww.show/how-long-will-it-take-to-grow-the-4-stages-of-water-innovationHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Ravid Levy - Founder & Consultant at RLV Consulting 💧 RLV Consulting helps Water Innovators to translate their technical R&D into Business Chances, Go-To-Market Plans, and Investment Opportunities What we covered: 🍏 How to build a sustainable frame to overcome water scarcity? 🍏 How agricultural water uses - often a blindspot of the water industry - triggered innovation in a good example of constrained creativity 🍏 How scarcity can be an overall driver for innovation 🍏 How national water law and central planning are the two pillars of Israel's water miracle 🍏 How those pillars lead to new water applications such as distributed treatments 🍏 How we're in an evolution process, that turned Homo Pollutius into Homo Ecologicus, hopefully, Homo Reusis and ultimately Homo Circularis 🍏 Drip Irrigation, Solar Heating, Aquaponics, World Leadership... and more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Ravid Levy on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravid-levy/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here : https://dww.show/the-two-surprising-pillars-that-support-israels-water-miracle/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Nicola Lei Ravello (& Antoine Walter) Many Water Professionals expressed their concern about the Sector's financial valuation. 🤑 It all started with Global Water Intelligence's updated top 50 list of Water Businesses and simple maths. All these companies together almost reached 130 Bn$ in yearly revenue. This collided with the latest news about ByteDance's valuation (TikTok's mother company), at about 250 Bn$. Do you see the shortcut? 🤔 50 Water Companies together = Half of the 7th largest Social Media alone ▶ Can this be true?! We checked this with the financial expert Nicola Lei Ravello, an Independent investment consultant and founder of White Stag Investing, a research platform for responsible investments. *** ➡️ Do you like this short format, answering one key question/topic? Let me know on LinkedIn! ➡️ Get the Full Podcast Series here: https://dww.show/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.