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

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 g...

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 c...

with 🎙️ Megan Glover - CEO and Co-Founder of 120Water 💧 120Water is an end-to-end solution for drinking water programs, COVID-19 wastewater sampling, and compliance. What we covered: 🍏 How the Idea for 120Water came from scratching own itches 🍏 How the company swiftly pivoted from B2C to B2B or B2B2C (I hear you like acronyms? 😀) 🍏 How digitizing the way you test the water and manage the resu...

 with 🎙️ Antoine Walter We're wrapping up Season 2 of the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast! ▶️ A perfect opportunity to discuss a Water Industry blind spot: how to tell better stories! *** Here are the books I'd recommend if you'd like to dig deeper: Save the Cat by Blake Snyder - https://savethecat.com/products/books/save-the-cat-the-last-book-on-screenwriting-youll-ever-need 7 Stories Every Salespe...

 with 🎙️ Jacob Bossaer - CEO and Founder of BOSAQ 💧 BOSAQ is a very ambitious Water Scale-Up aiming to develop innovative and future-proof drinking water solutions. What we covered: 🍏 How recycling water and energy in one of the earth's most remote places (Antarctica) led Jacob to found BOSAQ 🍏 How the biggest challenge to overcome the lack of access to drinking water might be political 🍏 How...

 with 🎙️ Gabi Wolkinson - CEO and 🎙️ Ofir Menashe - CTO and Founder of BioCastle 💧 BioCastle is an environmental biotechnology company that encapsulates nature by developing and marketing an intriguing technology: the Small Bioreactor Platform. What we covered: 🍏 How BioCastle develops the smallest bio-reactor in the world 🍏 How its simplicity makes it a perfect fit for multiple wastewater trea...

with 🎙️ Manaf Farhan - CEO & Co-Founder of EMG International 💧 EMG International is a leading company in Anaerobic Wastewater treatments, with a pretty unique take on anaerobic digestion. What we covered: 🍏 How Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Digestors enable to produce 4 times more energy than they consume to treat wastewater 🍏 How they can be fully automated to let industrial players focus on the...

with 🎙️ Michael Stanley Gallisdorfer 💧 Michael holds a Ph. D. in Geography and builds upon a unique (and multidisciplinary!) skill set, making him a Global Water expert. What we covered: 🍏 How we used to close and now re-open the rivers in our cities for roughly the same set of legitimate reasons 🍏  How (spoiler!) every dollar invested in river restoration actually provides a four-dollar return...

with 🎙️ Ulrike Kelm - Chair of the Woman in Water and Sanitation Network 💧 The Woman in Water and Sanitation Network is an active ambassador for gender equality, connecting and empowering female professionals, expanding women’s career opportunities, and increasing their visibility. What we covered: 🍏 The societal patterns we all grew up with, that might explain the 83/17 gender rate we experienc...

with 🎙️ Abdelhakim El Fadil - Ph. D. Researcher and Podcast Host 💧 The "Smart Water Solutions" podcast addresses technical hints and industrial expertise to better exploit water treatment technologies. What we covered: 🍏 How Sales and Marketing people active in our very technical industry need competitive benchmarks and technical understanding 🍏 How podcasting is a powerful channel to save them...

with 🎙️ Gaetane Suzenet - Co-Founder of the European Water Tech Accelerator 💧 The European Water Tech Accelerator aims to boost European water start-ups to drive sustainable growth in the global water sector.  What we covered: 🍏 How Environment, Economy, and Society shall work together to achieve a triple win, usually known as Sustainable Development 🍏 How Finance and Venture Capital shall be m...

We had been following the SUEZ Vs. VEOLIA drama in the podcast's Season 1: ▶️ When it first made the news: https://app.ausha.co/app/show/24535/episodes/preview/407461 ▶️ In a deep dive with Sebastien Mouret from Global Water Intelligence: https://app.ausha.co/app/show/24535/episodes/preview/431296 Well, the drama comes to an end! Both companies found an agreement to merge (... and split!) Discover...

with 🎙️ Nicola Lei Ravello - Independent investment consultant and founder of White Stag Investing 💧  White Stag Investing is a research platform for responsible investments, focusing on sustainability as a source of value and stability in the long-term.  What we covered: 🍏  How Finance could unlock something in the water sector and help it to grow and get better 🍏 How the four layers of the Wa...

with 🎙️ Maika Pellegrino - Senior Project Manager, Water & Wastewater @Jacobs 💧 Jacobs was the World's n°1 Design Firm for the third year in a row as per ENR's ranking in 2020 What we covered: 🍏 How Engineering is at the same time a fundamental pillar and an often-overlooked field of the Water Industry. 🍏 How Equipment, Procurement, and Construction companies play different roles from one g...

with 🎙️ Brian Moloney - Founder & Managing Director @ StormHarvester 💧 StormHarvester is the leading company in smart drainage systems (and more). What we covered: 🍏 How a simple, sturdy yet brilliant concept could have saved Queensland 3 billion pound worth of infrastructure damage 🍏 How hyperlocal weather forecasts and existing network sensors make for a perfect combination if you leverag...

with 🎙️ Jim Lauria - VP Sales & Marketing at Mazzei Injector Company & with 🎙️ Adam Tank - Director, Software Solutions at Transcend Water 💧 Adam & Jim are the co-hosts of the "Water We Talking About?" Podcast What we covered: 🍏 Why two seasoned water professionals and conference speakers embarked on a podcast journey - and what they aimed to fix in the water industry 🍏 Why many wat...

🎙️ In the Rapid Fire Questions section of my interview with Björn Otto (S2E6), we both found out, we were facing each other in a micropollutant removal project in Switzerland, 10 years ago. 👑 At that time, Activated Carbon (and Björn!) won over Ozone 🤔 Would that still be true, 10 years later? ➡️ That's what we investigated, in a debate/fight/constructive discussion! This BONUS episode is a repl...

with 🎙️ Graeme Pearce - Director @ Membrane Consultancy Associates 💧 Membrane Consultancy Associates is a consultancy practice bringing expertise and guidance in membrane technology. What we covered: 🍏 How membrane treatments evolved from a joke to a must-have 🍏 How a couple of lonely prophets actually defeated all odds to impose membranes in wastewater treatment 🍏 The perks of Membrane Biorea...

with 🎙️ Steven Kohn - CEO & Founder @ Wisewater 💧 Wisewater aims to provide simple and seamless devices to better conserve our most precious resource, aka water. What we covered: 🍏 How water scarcity is unfortunately here to stay, and what this involves politically but also in terms of water costs 🍏 Yes, we can all do something about it, and actually every day!  🍏 The steps Steven & Wi...

with 🎙️ Gilad Yogev - Product Manager MABR Products @ Fluence 💧 Fluence is a global leader in decentralized water and wastewater treatment solutions. What we covered: 🍏 How actually MABR is not a typo for MBR or MBBR but maybe simply THE wastewater treatment technology of the 2020s 🍏 How membranes are used in this technology and how it revolutionizes the way air is introduced into wastewater ...

with 🎙️ Björn Otto - Business Unit and Marketing Director @ Hager + Elsässer 💧 H+E is one of the world's leading suppliers of water and wastewater technology with more than 30,000 turnkey plants in over 130 countries around the globe. What we covered: 🍏 The Special Sauve you need, to be efficient in marketing in the Water Industry 🍏 How marketing changed - or shall change - to move away from pr...

with 🎙️ Matthew Silver – Founder & CEO @ Cambrian Innovation 💧 Cambrian Innovation is a revolutionary provider of distributed wastewater treatment and resource recovery solutions. What we covered: 🍏 How starting a venture in the water industry is much harder than what one would think 🍏 How even when you can prove a new solution to be better, market adoption is not a given 🍏 What's behind t...

🎉 We're kicking off a "Water & Wastewater 101" series today! The aim is to answer questions that you raise to us, thus this first one: what's the history of wastewater treatment? When did it start? Where does it come from? 🎧 We'll go from Mesopotamian to modern times, through Roman enlightenments and medieval dark ages. Sit back and relax! If you also have questions you'd like us to answer,...

with 🎙️ Kimberley Baker – Director of Water Innovation at the Elemental Excelerator 💧 Elemental is a non-profit Growth Accelerator supporting entrepreneurs who are building world-changing companies. What we covered: 🍏 How Elemental picks and selects 15 to 20 companies out of 5'000 informal discussions and 800 applications every year. 🍏 How those companies behave and grow once they have joined t...

with 🎙️ Matthew Silver – Founder & CEO @ Cambrian Innovation 💧 Cambrian Innovation is a revolutionary provider of distributed wastewater treatment and resource recovery solutions. What we covered: 🍏 How Cambrian Innovation evolved from an applied R&D company, working in the aerospace field on a NASA grant, to an industrial wastewater treatment specialist (for instance, for Beer Breweries...