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

with 🎙️ Damian Georgino, Partner at Womble Bond Dickinson  💧 Womble Bond Dickinson is a leading law firm that provides support to organizations operating within the fast-moving, challenging, and dynamic energy, water, and food nexus. What we covered: 🚜 How Water's Rethink needs to happen at the Energy-Water-Food nexus level - and why  🤝 How this caters perfectly to the private sector's abilitie...

Damian Georgino is Partner at Womble Bond Dickinson. Womble Bond Dickinson is a leading law firm that provides support to organizations operating within the fast-moving, challenging, and dynamic energy, water, and food nexus. That was a hell of a ride. What am I talking about? Well, this exploration of the Water Crisis in America. I know, to some of you, it may sound like the definition of a First...

with 🎙️ Sarah Kapnick, Chief Scientist at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration  💧 The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) aims to enrich life through science. From the sun's surface to the ocean's depths, the Agency works to keep the public informed of the changing environment around them. What we covered: 🌳 How Climate Data will help to rethink water, infra...

Sarah Kapnick is Chief Scientist at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. The US NOAA aims to enrich life through science. From the sun's surface to the ocean's depths, the Agency works to keep the public informed of the changing environment around them. There are a lot of parameters to consider when planning infrastructure for today and the decades to come. It is a compound of ex...

Xylem and Evoqua just announced their merger. This will create the second-largest water company in the World with a $7 Bn turnover! Yet, Evoqua has quite a history in M&A moves, having successively been part of Veolia and Siemens, without success. Will this deal be different, and if yes, why? Let's review! Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

"Water Apocalypse" may come in as an exaggerated stretch; I'm sorry. Yet if you want a number to understand the magnitude of what we're discussing here: fixing America's water challenges is estimated at... $1 trillion. So, what makes for this Water Crisis in America? This is the consequence of decades of flawed water management along four main lines.  Broken infrastructure starts showing with near...

with 🎙️ Henry Cordes, Principal at Sciens Water  💧 Sciens is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood water sector opportunities that are undercapitalized. What we covered: 💰 How Private Capital can and should play a role in solving America's water challenges  💸 How the American Water Market is a $100 Billion market opportunity, growing and...

Henry Cordes is Principal at Sciens Water. Sciens is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood water sector opportunities that are undercapitalized. I could say a lot about the pre-conceptions out there on the involvement of private capital in the Water Sector. I've already told several times the story of when a group of university professors n...

with 🎙️ Meshal Alduraywish, Vice President at Sciens Capital Management   💧 Sciens is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood water sector opportunities that are undercapitalized. What we covered: 💰 What are the biggest gaps an actual investor sees in the Water Sector, and how can we turn this into an opportunity  💸 How getting a sense of...

Seeing the Sharks or the Dragons in Shark Tank or Dragon Den decide on which company to invest just out of gut feeling and business intuition is fascinating. Indeed, it's thus fascinating that the show is an international hit in almost all its variations. But do things really happen like that in real life? I honestly doubt it. Sure, if you recall my conversation with Reinhard Hübner on that microp...

Pinterest has a superpower: it can read its users' project boards and hence... predict the future! Why so? Simply because 400 million people use the platform as a mood board to prepare for their upcoming plans. Now, if you gather and summarize that data, you can get a glimpse into the future: Pinterest does this every year with their "Predict" reports, and their track record is insane. 80% of thei...

with 🎙️ Antoine Walter   💧 Antoine Walter studied and graduated in Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, but his actual knowledge comes from what he's seen in the trenches of the Water World. ✈️ That's how he learned about water treatment in Hong Kong, desalination in Melbourne, water management in Jakarta, water innovation in Singapore, and social water projects in New Delhi and Gujarat. 🎙️...

with 🎙️ Upmanu Lall - Director of the Columbia Water Center   💧 The Columbia Water Center aims to creatively tackle water challenges of a rapidly changing world where water and climate interact with food, energy, ecosystems, and urbanization. What we covered: 🥷🏽 How many of the water challenges we face fly under the radar in places where no one actually expects them - and what to do about it  🎛...

Upmanu Lal is the Director of the Columbia Water Center at Columbia University in New York. The Columbia Water Center is on a mission to creatively tackle the water challenges of a rapidly changing world where water and climate interact with food, energy, ecosystems, and urbanization. Over the past two years, governments around the World have announced unusual water infrastructure investments, wit...

with 🎙️ Lauren Enright - Founder of Axiom Climate LLC  with 🎙️ Michael Stanley Gallisdorfer - Water Sustainability Strategist  💧 Lauren, Michael, and Indrani Pal will lead a Session Day at the upcoming American Geophysical Union Meeting in Chicago: "Adapting to Climate Change: Innovative Solutions for Building Water Resilience to Long-term Meteorological & Hydrological Change." What we covere...

Lauren Enright is the Founder of Axiom Climate, and Michael Stanley Gallisdorfer is a Water Sustainability Strategist you've already heard on that microphone by the excellent Episode 17 of Season 2 . Together with Indrani Pal, Lauren and Michael will lead a Session Day at the upcoming American Geophysical Union Meeting in Chicago titled "Adapting to Climate Change: Innovative Solutions for Buildin...

with 🎙️ Josiah Cox, founder and president of Central States Water Resources  💧 Central States Water Resources transforms how water utilities work by acquiring small, often non-compliant systems and then using expertise, technology, and innovation to quickly assess and turn them into reliable infrastructure. What we covered: 💰 What Utility Consolidation actually is and how it can reshape the dest...

Josiah Cox is the founder and president of Central States Water Resources. Central States Water Resources transforms how water utilities work by acquiring small, often non-compliant systems and then using expertise, technology, and innovation to quickly assess and turn them into reliable infrastructure. I bet you've never heard of Central States Water Resources. Please don't get offended; I had ne...

with 🎙️ Sean Davis, founder and managing director of Merton Capital Partners, adjunct professor at the Palm Beach Atlantic University, and Author of " Solving the Giving Pledge Bottleneck ."  💧 Merton Capital Partners develops innovative investment strategies to unlock philanthropy's potential by incentivizing corporations to generate large-scale good in their core businesses. What we covered: 💰...

Sean Davis is the founder and managing director of Merton Capital Partners, an adjunct professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University, and the Author of "Solving the Giving Pledge Bottleneck." Merton Capital Partners develops innovative investment strategies to unlock philanthropy's potential by incentivizing corporations to generate large-scale good in their core businesses. What the heck is the lin...

with 🎙️ Tom Rooney - Chairman and Operating Partner at Sciens Water  💧 Sciens is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood water sector opportunities that are undercapitalized. What we covered: 3️⃣ The three dimensions of the Water Problem: Broken Pipes, Broken Policy, and Broken Economics 💰 How one dimension is the root cause of all the othe...

Tom Rooney is Chairman and Operating Partner at Sciens Water . Sciens is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood water sector opportunities that are undercapitalized. I cannot name one of my about 120 guests so far that would not have taught me something during our conversation. If you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you know h...

with 🎙️ Mirka Wilderer - CEO at De Nora Water Technologies  💧 De Nora is a leading provider of equipment, systems, disinfection, and filtration solutions for water and wastewater treatment. What we covered: 🙌 How De Nora entered the water sector and how fast and transformational its track to IPO was  💙 What De Nora's core is, and how it will evolve and develop in the next years  🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏽 Ho...

Mirka Wilderer is the CEO of De Nora Water Technologies. De Nora is a leading provider of equipment, systems, disinfection, and filtration solutions for water and wastewater treatment. Back in my years as a sales engineer, I used to map the competitors' landscape when working on large projects. And in my quite specialized world of advanced wastewater treatments, I was very good at predictions, or...

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: 🚀 How it might be time to build the SpaceX of PFAS r...