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

Are America’s water pipes broken? For millions of citizens across the country, it may seem so. The well-documented examples of Flint, Jackson, New Orleans, or Baltimore may well seem alarming. But in fact, they are just the tip of an iceberg that reveals more every day. The Water Crisis in America is not looming: it’s already there. Over the past year, I met with 20 subject matter experts to not o...

with 🎙️ Christopher Brown - CEO at Helios Corporation  💧 Helios acknowledges that the World's current trajectory is unsustainable and focuses its expertise in Energy, Power, Biomass, Capital Markets, and the latest environmental technology to achieve more, using less. What we covered: 💡 How geothermal energy can revolutionize lithium extraction and how it may actually do it  ⚡️ Why the future o...

Christopher Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Helios Corporation. Helios acknowledges that the World's current trajectory is unsustainable and focuses its expertise in Energy, Power, Biomass, Capital Markets, and the latest environmental technology to achieve more, using less.  Over the past episodes, we've discussed why we need more lithium, where to find new sources, and how to unlock them from...

with 🎙️ Devesh Sharma - CEO at Aquatech  💧 Aquatech helps the world's most recognized companies solve important water challenges such as lithium refining, desalination or food and beverage. What we covered: 💡 How Aquatech is a Private Powerhouse in Industrial Water Treatment You Need to Know About  🏗️ How Aquatech delivers complex projects and how they tackle challenges in remote locations  🌟 W...

Devesh Sharma is the CEO of Aquatech. Aquatech helps the world's most recognized companies solve important water challenges. There's a fine line between risk-taking and putting all you have at stake, between perseverance and obstinacy, and between grit and recklessness. And it's only when the dust settles that you'll know on which side of the line the ball decided to fall. When I started my career...

Over the past months, Thames Water: - announced a £1 Billion loss - received a £51 Million fine - kept serving 15 million customers - let raw sewage spill for 75'000 hours - piled up £14 Billion in debt - lost 10'500'000 wheelbarrows of water - lost its CEO How concerning is all of this for UK's largest water company? Let's review! 00:00 Thames Water is in Troubled Water 00:21 Thames Water got fin...

with 🎙️ Chris Wyres - CEO at Evove  💧 Evove aims to take membranes to the next level, overcoming the inherent flaws in conventional architectures, hence transforming membranes, transforming separation, and filtration. What we covered: 🥇 How G2O Water Technologies was founded around the use of graphene to coat membranes, how that was game-changing by itself and how Evove still took it to the next...

Chris Wyres is the CEO of Evove. Evove aims to take membranes to the next level, overcoming the inherent flaws in conventional architectures, hence transforming membranes, transforming separation, and filtration. In the middle of the 19th century, a Belgian inventor, Adolphe Sax, conceived what's known today as the saxophone, which is today the fourth most popular instrument, just behind the piano...

According to the US Government, the Salton Sea could produce up to 600'000 tons of Lithium per year, which at today's spot price would be worth $26 Billion a year. For a Sea that's turning into a chemically polluted swamp, that's an unexpected twist of fate! Especially when it doubles down to being a pretty green way to produce that lithium, as direct lithium extraction technologies would co-locat...

with 🎙️ Cris Moreno - Deputy CEO at Vulcan Energy Resources  💧 Vulcan aims to decarbonize the transition to electric mobility through its world-first Zero Carbon Lithium Projects for electric vehicle batteries and its renewable energy business. What we covered: 🥇 How Vulcan aims to become the world's first integrated lithium chemicals company while also producing renewable energy...  0️⃣ ... and...

Cris Moreno is Deputy CEO at Vulcan Energy Resources. Vulcan aims to decarbonize the transition to electric mobility through its world-first Zero Carbon Lithium™ Project for electric vehicle batteries and its renewable energy business. This exploration of the Lithium World has taken me far from home. Canada, USA, Mexico, Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, UK... But one of the most exciting projects in...

with 🎙️ Teague Egan - CEO & Founder of EnergyX  💧 EnergyX is on a mission to become a worldwide leader in the global transition to sustainable energy What we covered: 🌵 How the story of EnergyX started in the salt flats of Uyuni with Teague Egan's initiatory journey to Bolivia  🗓️ How EnergyX has a masterplan and how this one goes beyond "just" supplying lithium extraction technology to the...

Teague Egan is the CEO and Founder of EnergyX. EnergyX is on a mission to become a worldwide leader in the global transition to sustainable energy with breakthrough direct lithium extraction and refinery technologies, as well as more effective battery and energy storage solutions. Imagine you're listening to "The End" - the famous hit of The Doors. You vaguely remember there's something pressing o...

with 🎙️ Jim Rieke - VP of Process Engineering at Veolia Water Technologies  💧 Veolia Water Technologies specializes in water treatment solutions while providing a complete range of services for industrial & public authorities What we covered: 👷 How HPD onboards all its hires through its service and commissioning groups and how that's the best learning experience to Veolia Water Technologies'...

Jim RIeke is Vice President of Process Engineering at Veolia Water Technologies. Within the Veolia Galaxy, we focus today on HPD: Large-scale, highly-integrated process solutions utilizing evaporation, crystallization, and more. If you recall what Tony Strobbe shared on this microphone a couple of weeks ago: "if you ship spodumene concentrate across the ocean, you ship 6% what you want, and 94% wh...

😮 Anaergia's flagship asset, the Rialto Bioenergy Facility, just filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. What happened? What are the problems? What's next? Let's review ⬇ Last year, I spoke with Andrew Benedek and Kunal Shah on this podcast, and I came out of those two episodes deeply convinced that Anaergia was changing the World for the better. 🏆 Last month, that feeling got comforted at Global Water...

with 🎙️ Robert Mintak - CEO of Standard Lithium 💧 Standard Lithium coins itself America's 21st century Lithium Company. They're expected to become the first lithium developer in the World to produce direct-extracted lithium at a commercial scale in El Dorado What we covered: 5️⃣ How Standard Lithium built a plan to grow to commercial direct lithium extraction (DLE) scale in five years 🔁 How you...

Robert Mintak is the CEO of Standard Lithium. Standard Lithium coins itself America's 21st century Lithium Company, and indeed, they shall become the first lithium developer in the World to produce direct-extracted lithium at a commercial scale in El Dorado. What's not to love about Direct Lithium Extraction or DLE? We've seen in the first two episodes of this series how the World needs to scale f...

with 🎙️ Tony Strobbe - EV supply chain Projects Director  💧 Every Monday, Tony compiles a dedicated content piece he shares on LinkedIn that covers one aspect of that said supply chain What we covered: ⚡ How there are no electric vehicles without batteries, no batteries without lithium, and no lithium without some kind of mining, hence you have to build a supply chain  🤝 How the closer you are...

Tony Strobbe is EV supply chain Projects Director. Every Monday, he compiles a dedicated content piece he shares on LinkedIn that covers one aspect of that said supply chain, so if you like what he shares today, make sure to follow him! I hope you haven't missed last week's conversation with Ben Sparrow from Saltworks! If you have, shame on you, but let me bring you up to speed: we're diving into...

with 🎙️ Benjamin Sparrow - CEO and Co-Founder at Saltworks Technologies  💧 Saltworks provides innovative products and solutions for industrial wastewater treatment and desalination. What we covered: 🎢 The current state of Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) and its possible technological paths 🤝 How DLE gets paired with Concentrate Refine Convert (CRC) processes and how this takes lithium to batter...

Here's the full breakdown of the Water Action Agenda pledges (including the Excel table that you can download) ➡️ https://dww.show/the-truth-about-the-water-action-agenda-768-commitments-decrypted/ I fear that the UN Water Action Agenda suffers from what Barney Stinson (yes, the one from How I Met Your Mother) would call... the cheerleader effect. Many "commitments", but at the end of the day, a l...

Maybe "Lying" is too strong of a word, but at least there's a serious imbalance between what's needed, what's spoken about, and what's really pledged. Wanna dive deeper into the topic? Check out my full video: https://youtu.be/7gksQHzCYVA Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

with 🎙️ Karl Michael Millauer, Founder of KMM Consulting and a former C-Level executive in some emblematic water groups like BWT, Christ Water Technology, Aquatech International, and Aquarion AG.  💧 KMM Consulting helps clients around the globe leverage opportunities in the world of water through mergers & acquisitions, finance & funding, business development, and strategic support. What...

Karl Michael Millauer is the founder of KMM Consulting and a former C-Level executive in some emblematic water groups like BWT, Christ Water Technology, Aquatech International, and Aquarion AG. KMM Consulting helps clients around the globe leverage opportunities in the world of water through mergers & acquisitions, finance & funding, business development, and strategic support. The water i...