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

Henrik Hagemann is the CEO and co-founder of Puraffinity. Puraffinity is a GreenTech Company that designs smart materials for environmental applications. As you may have discovered by Season 4, Episode 1, they strive to solve the daunting PFAS / Forever chemicals challenge we face. We all have PFAS in our blood, and this for quite a simple reason: forever chemicals are everywhere around us. For th...

with 🎙️ Patrick Decker - CEO at Xylem  💧 Xylem is one of the largest water and wastewater technology companies globally and follows the simple motto: “Let’s solve water.” What we covered: 3️⃣ The 3 obstacles to Water Technologies' Adoption...  🤐 ... and the 3 secrets to overcoming them  💪 The multifaceted perks of Private-Public Partnerships that lead to win-win-win-win-wins  🙌 The one-billion...

Patrick Decker is the CEO of Xylem. Xylem is the fourth largest water business in the World and a water and wastewater technology company that's well known for its motto: "Let's solve water." Eleven years ago, almost day for day, ITT spun off its water business to create Xylem. That move itself didn't change much, but the eleven years' journey that followed profoundly reshaped the company and, by...

with 🎙️ Paul Gallay - Lecturer & Co-Director at the Columbia Climate School  💧 Columbia University is a global leader in climate and sustainability education, aiming to bring an interdisciplinary knowledge base for future climate leaders to work with businesses, communities, governments, and civil society to address the climate crisis. What we covered: 🌊 Why we failed at bringing people into...

Paul Gallay is Lecturer & Co-Director at the Columbia Climate School. Columbia University is a global leader in climate and sustainability education, aiming to bring an interdisciplinary knowledge base for future climate leaders to work with businesses, communities, governments, and civil society to address the climate crisis. If you recall Season 3, Episode 13, I had David Lloyd Owen on that...

with 🎙️ Kunal Shah - Chief Growth Officer at Anaergia and council member of the World Biogas Association, the Singapore Water Association, and Imagine H2O Asia.  💧 Anaergia ambitions to convert waste into a carbon-negative fuel for a sustainable future. What we covered: 🔸 How we only tap into a fraction of the biogas potential today and why  🌎 How biomethane can change the Water Industry's carb...

Hallo, bonjour, and welcome to the Don't waste water podcast! I am your host, Antoine Walter, and in today's episode, I am delighted to welcome Kunal Shah as my guest! Kunal is Chief Growth Officer at Anaergia, and a council member of the World Biogas Association, the Singapore Water Association, and Imagine H2O Asia. Anaergia ambitions to convert waste into a carbon-negative fuel for a sustainabl...

with 🎙️ Kevin Sofen - Director of Innovation at W. S. Darley & Co., Host of the Smart Firefighting podcast, and Co-Host of the SDG Talks Podcast.  💧 The SDG Talks podcast highlights Change Makers and their work towards the UN SDGs with a sound passion for highlighting people and organizations that will transform the world into a better place for everyone. What we covered: 💧 How Kevin first g...

Kevin Sofen is Director of Innovation at W.S. Darley, but also a repeat podcast host with the Smart Firefighting podcast and the SDG Talks, a social entrepreneur with Wristsponsible, and adjunct professor at DePaul University, a multiple board member and a talent at Unleash. And if you wonder how he packs all of this in one life, don't worry, I wonder too! The SDG Talks podcast highlights Change M...

with 🎙️ George McGraw - CEO & Founder of DigDeep  💧 DigDeep is a human rights nonprofit serving the 2.2 million+ Americans without the sinks, bathtubs, or toilets that the rest of the US takes for granted. What we covered: 🤯 How 2.2 million Americans don't have access to water and wastewater services at home and how these places affected by the Water Gap could be at a 10-minute drive of your...

George McGraw is the CEO and Founder of DigDeep. DigDeep is a human rights nonprofit serving the 2.2 million+ Americans without the sinks, bathtubs, or toilets that the rest of the developed World takes for granted. I hope that the 2.2 million figure shocked you so much when I first mentioned it on that microphone a couple weeks ago in my introduction to my conversation with Colin Goddard from Sou...

with 🎙️ Errick Simmons - Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi, and co-chair of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative. 💧 The Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative works to improve the river's water quality, restore its habitat, coordinate the state's efforts, create sustainable economies around the basin, and celebrate the river's culture and history. What we covered: 🧠 How to ret...

Errick Simmons is the Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi, and the co-chair of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative. The Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative works to improve the river's water quality, restore its habitat, coordinate the state's efforts, create sustainable economies around the basin, and celebrate the river's culture and history. About one year ago, I was workin...

with 🎙️ Trace Blackmore - Owner of Blackmore Enterprises and Host of the “Scaling Up! H2O” podcast  💧 The "Scaling Up! H2O" podcast intends to prove to you every week why working in Industrial Water Treatment is the best job in the world. What we covered: 📈 How there are 1.3 million water professionals in the US alone  🪐 How the scattered nature of the Water Industry brings most of these profes...

Trace Blackmore is the Owner of Blackmore Enterprises and the Host of the "Scaling Up! H2O" podcast. The "Scaling Up! H2O" podcast intends to prove to you every week why working in Industrial Water Treatment is the best job in the World. If you're listening from the UK, Singapore, or maybe Denmark, you'll be surprised by the rest of this introduction. But actually, for the majority of water profes...

with 🎙️ James Rees - Chief Impact Officer at Botanical Water Technologies and Board Advisor at Bluerloop, Droople, and Noverram.   💧 Botanical Water Technologies strives to positively impact water scarcity by providing a new source of drinkable, sustainable, plant-based water for social and environmental projects. What we covered: 💧 How it might be time to think a bit laterally about water and g...

James Rees is Chief Impact Officer at Botanical Water Technologies and Board Advisor at Bluerloop, Droople , and Noverram. Botanical Water Technologies strives to positively impact water scarcity by providing a new source of drinkable, sustainable, plant-based Water for social and environmental projects. Let me bring you a bit behind the scenes to start with today. I've been recently invited to gi...

with 🎙️ Nick Shufro - Deputy Assistant Administrator, Federal Insurance & Mitigation Administration, Resilience, FEMA   💧 The Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) manages the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and a range of programs designed to mitigate against future losses from all hazards, including floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters. What w...

Nick Shufrois Deputy Assistant Administrator at the Federal Insurance & Mitigation Administration. The Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) manages the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and a range of programs designed to mitigate against future losses from all hazards, including floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters. If you recall my conversation...

with 🎙️ Semra Bakkaloglu - Research Associate at the Imperial College of London  💧 Semra recently showed in her research how the methane emissions along the biosolids supply chain were vastly underestimated and proposed straightforward actions to correct it swiftly. What we covered: 📈 How methane concentration in the atmosphere is at an all-time high and has more than doubled since preindustrial...

Semra Bakkaloglu is a Research Associate at the Imperial College of London. She recently showed in her research how the methane emissions along the biosolids supply chain were vastly underestimated and proposed straightforward actions to correct it swiftly. Sure, wastewater treatment plants gobble a lot of energy. But if you equip them with sludge digesters, they also produce a good chunk of power...

with 🎙️ Taylor O'Neil - CEO of Richard's Rainwater.   💧 Richard's Rainwater markets what it claims to be "The Water of Tomorrow," aka Bottled Rainwater! What we covered: 💧 How Richard's Rainwater is the first company in the United States to get approval for bottling rainwater  💪 How putting rainwater into cans actually works, where and why.  🚱 How bottled rainwater actually solves two pains: w...

Taylor O'Neil is the CEO of Richard's Rainwater. Richard's Rainwater markets what it claims to be "The Water of Tomorrow," aka Bottled Rainwater! People who know me well know my little secret: I have a bizarre addiction to sugar-free energy drinks. So, when I'm traveling, I act as a collector: I spot every can I don't know yet, make sure to taste it, take a picture, and wonder if anyone else in th...

with 🎙️ Seth Siegel - writer, lawyer, activist, serial entrepreneur, and an acclaimed public speaker.   💧 You might have read his "Troubled Water" book - and if you haven't, you should - or his international best-seller "Let there be Water," translated into 20+ languages. What we covered: 📉 How water tariffs are desperately too low and how this has consequences on the entire utility sector  😱 H...

Seth Siegel is a writer, lawyer, activist, serial entrepreneur, and an acclaimed public speaker. You might have read his "Troubled Water" book - and if you haven't, you should - or his international best-seller "Let there be Water," translated into 20 languages. If you recall the first episode of Season 2 of this podcast, Elango Thevar, the CEO and founder of Neer, explained how the decisive kick...