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

with 🎙️ Scott Hamilton, Researcher, Policy Advisor and author of "Sold Down the River"  💧 in "Sold Down the River," Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells explore how Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia’s Water Market. What we covered:  🍏 How the Murray-Darling River Basin spreads across 4 states, produces 40% of Australia's food, and creates $24 billion of yearly agricultural valu...

Scott Hamilton shares some of the key findings and stories of the book he wrote with Stuart Kells on Water Trading in the Murray-Darling River Basin, Australia's largest river system. 🎙️ Scott Hamilton is a researcher, a policy advisor, and the author of "Sold Down the River: How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia’s Water Market" To discover the full interview, type "S4E6 - H...

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,...

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 intervi...

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 we...

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 Pa...

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 incre...

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...

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 hydrop...

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...

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 v...

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 - actua...

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 pro...

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...

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 Labor...

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-Ba...

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 w...

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...

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 an...

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...

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 c...

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...

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....

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-fa...

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...