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

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 pa...

🎙️ 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 "...

with 🎙️ Antoine Walter, Podcaster in Chief at GF Piping Systems – happy to share the key Water Industry Insights he collected for you over the past 6 months! 💧 19 guests shared 1’114 minutes of Wisdom in this Season 4. I dived a bit deeper in 17 of these learnings to add my pinch of salt! What we covered:  #1 - We are building New York every month between now and 2050 #2 - The Water Industry unde...

🎙️ I'm your host, Antoine Walter, and I'm taking the microphone this week to close Season 4 of the (don't) Waste Water podcast. I've picked 17 learnings shared by my guests and experts, and tried to dig a bit further!  This extract is my personal exploration of WHY small and agile water startups building Software as a Service (SaaS) can manage to beat industry horizontal giants. HOW do they do it?...

with 🎙️ Geoff Ward, CEO of Hazer Group Limited (nb: Hazer stands for "Hydrogen And Zero Emission Research)  💧 Hazer Group Limited is a pioneering company undertaking the commercialization of a low-emission hydrogen and graphite production process. This episode is the third part of a Hydrogen Economy trilogy!   What we covered:  💪 How Hazer currently builds a large-scale demonstration plant of it...

Geoff Ward explains how Hazer Group Limited currently builds a demonstration plant of its revolutionary turquoise hydrogen production process on the Woodman Point wastewater treatment plant in Perth Australia. 🎙️ Geoff Ward is the CEO of Hazer Group Limited, a pioneering company undertaking the commercialization of a low-emission hydrogen and graphite production process. To listen to the full epis...

2022 will be the 30th edition of World Water Day. But why was it created in the first place? Well, the United Nations struggled to bring Water and Sanitation for all, so they set a reminder for everyone. World Water Day should shine a light on the progress (or not) towards the Goal that's encompassed today within the UN SDG 6. The problem is that for many, World Water Day is rather "just" a celebr...

with 🎙️ Alena Fargere, Principal at SWEN Capital Partners and co-founder of the first European investment fund dedicated to renewable gases.  💧 SWEN Capital Partners, a benchmark player in sustainable investments in private equity, just announced the first closing of its second SWEN Impact Fund for Transition (SWIFT 2). It will be a direct contribution to decarbonizing the economy and creating jo...

Alena Fargere explains how in the complex equation of a decarbonized world, hydrogen brings a welcome additional energy carrier. Unleashing the Hydrogen Economy will involve a combination of incentives, finance, and technologies, that SWEN Capital commits to unleash! 🎙️ Alena Fargere is Principal at SWEN Capital Partners and co-founder of the first European investment fund dedicated to renewable g...

As the World needs to decarbonize, Hydrogen gets often portrayed as an incredible solution. An energy carrier, 100% carbon-free to power the new nexus? Well, carbon-free, that's swiftly said. But is it true? Today, 98.7% of the world's hydrogen is produced from... fossil fuels. Which in turn, makes it a pretty carbon-intensive good. Hence, before using Hydrogen to decarbonize the World, we'll bett...

with 🎙️ Paul Martin, Chemical process development expert & founder of Spitfire Research.   💧 Spitfire research is a Process development consulting company for a decarbonized future, where Paul acts as an antidote to marketing hopium and a tireless advocate for a fossil-fuel-free future. This episode is the first part of a Hydrogen Economy trilogy!   What we covered:  🧪 How the thermodynamics...

Paul Martin explains how much we're wrong when we see hydrogen as a decarbonization tool: it is a decarbonization problem instead. Learn how and why, what we shall do about it, and how there's still a low-hanging fruit in reducing the carbon footprint of hydrogen applications. 🎙️ Paul Martin is a Chemical process development expert and defines himself as an antidote to marketing hopium and a tirel...

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: 🍏 Ho...

➡️ https://www.icrc.org/en/donate/ukraine If you need a sad statistic to support that call for donation, according to UNICEF, Children under 5 living in war zones are 20 times more likely to die from waterborne illnesses than from violence. And children under the age of 15, are still more than twice as likely to die from waterborne diseases than violence in these areas of conflict. Hosted on Ausha...

with 🎙️ Jonathan Rhone, President, and CEO of Axine Water Technologies   💧 Axine Water Technologies specializes in the on-site treatment of the toughest organics in industrial wastewater. What we covered:  💸 How Wastewater treatment has often been a tax to be in business for Industrial Players  ⚗️ How chemicals we introduce in water are always more complex and how that commands advanced wastewat...

Jonathan Rhone explains how cleantech can support industrial operators and help them treat their wastewater on-site rather than trucking it to incineration. He also tells how Axine does it, by means of electrochemical oxidation, and what business approach supports the company's spectacular development.  🎙️ Jonathan Rhon is the President, and CEO of Axine Water Technologies, a company specializing...

with 🎙️ Kobe Nagar, CEO & Co-Founder at 374Water   💧 374Water is a cleantech company, that builds and develops Innovative physical-thermal technology (Supercritical Water Oxidation - SCWO) for resource recovery from waste and emerging contaminants elimination. What we covered:  🥖 How Supercritical Water was discovered 200 years by a French engineer: Charles Cagniard de Latour  ⚗️ How substan...

Kobe Nagar explains how you could treat any kind of wastewater stream in seconds, thanks to supercritical water oxidation. On top of this, you could easily run resource recovery, and benefit from an exothermic reaction to transform the chemical energy of wastewater into electricity! 🎙️ Kobe Nagar is the CEO and Co-Founder of 374Water, a cleantech company that specializes in Supercritical Water Oxi...

with 🎙️ David Lynch, CEO & Co-Founder at Klir   💧 Klir is building the All-In-One Operating System for Water. What we covered:  ✋ How the Water Industry really differs from any other economic sector in its core mission itself  🍏 ... and what the core differences between the Water Sector and any other vertical actually are  🚨 How usual approaches generate alarms and triggers but leave opera...

David Lynch explains how the Water Industry is a special beast that needs tools to be tailored and catered to its challenges and needs. He shares how water professionals will be enhanced by digital tools and how a water operating system, that supports their processes, will help them deliver an even higher level of service.  🎙️ David Lynch is the CEO and Co-Founder of Klir, the All-In-One Operating...

There are 1'600 TWh of untapped energy that flows in #Wastewater every year! That's the equivalent of: 320 nuclear power reactors 140 million tons of oil being burned in thermic power plants or 32'000 of the World's largest wind turbines. And what do we do with it? Well... Nothing 😅 Or even worse: we waste 1'000 TWh per year to DESTROY these 1'600 TWh. How's that even possible?  ➡️  Let's review....

with 🎙️ Ellen Bruno, Extension Economist @ UC Berkeley   💧 The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley leads research and outreach on economic and policy issues relevant to California’s agriculture and natural resources. What we covered:  🌱 How the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act is a challenge and an opportunity for all the Californian water users  🧮 How when re...

Ellen Bruno explains how better understanding the price (in)elasticity of Water Demand shall influence policies, to make sure that Water flows to its best use. Her research at UC Berkeley tends to demonstrate that Water Trading and at least Groundwater Pricing shall better the water efficiency as compared to the status quo - even when market power disturbs the market. 🎙️ Ellen Bruno is an extensio...

with 🎙️ Steven De Laet, CEO & Founder of Inopsys  💧 Inopsys provides mobile & modular side stream on-site solutions for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. What we covered:  🔥 How many industrial wastewater streams still get incinerated nowadays (and how they sometimes make long routes before!) 💸 How the unsustainable solution isn't even the cheapest one  🌱 How onsite treatment o...

Steven De Laet explains how industrial wastewater management has to shift from an approach where we truck it away in tankers to an approach where wastewater is treated onsite. He's also showing how this is cheaper and more sustainable, while his DBFOM approach (Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Maintain) makes it a one-to-one replacement to wastewater incineration. 🎙️ Steven De Laet is the CEO &...