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.
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18 Months Left to “Close the Gap”: Beware, the Water Clock is Ticking!
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.
Central Water Management Networks won’t Handle 2050. Time for an Epic Move?
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.
Solid, Liquid, Gas, And… A Fourth Phase of Water?!
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 hydrophilic surfaces. More on that in a second!
How to treat PFAS out of Water and protect our Health, Economy, and Biodiversity
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.
Do Nature-Based Solutions Work? These New Case Studies Will Verify It!
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.
Can Nature-Based Solutions Better Protect Cities from Soaring Environmental Risks?
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.
How to Manage Flooding and Improve Water Quality without Steel, Concrete, and Hard Engineering
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.
A Climate Modeller’s Truth on the Controversial Project of Iceberg Harvesting
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.
How To Save 136 Trillion Liters A Year? Solve Non-Revenue Water!
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.
The Magical Substance You Need to Green a Desert Actually Comes from Antarctica
with 🎙️ Abdulla Alshehhi, Managing Director of National Advisor Bureau Limited, CEO of Q2 General Cleaning, and Business Support Section Head at GASCO
💧 National Advisor Bureau Limited leverages creativity and innovation to be a leading Consultant Firm For start-up businesses & Established Companies
The 3 Painful Challenges the US Water Sector Desperately Needs to Overcome
with 🎙️ Alexander Loucopoulos, Partner at both Sciens Capital Management and Sciens Water
💧 Sciens Water is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood opportunities in the water sector that are hence undercapitalized.
3 Paths to Reach SDG 6 by 2050: All Our Hopes are on #3!
with 🎙️ David Lloyd Owen, Managing Director of Envisager, Columnist for Global Water Intelligence, Advisor on several boards, and author of “Global Water Funding.”
💧 In his Global Water Funding book, David Lloyd Owen discusses global progress towards fulfilling SDG 6, proposes alternative solutions to lack of funding, and examines the reasons why countries are failing at implementing safe and sustainable water and sanitation for all.
Design Thinking Will Make You Fail Faster: That’s Exactly What You Need!
with 🎙️ Lea Im Obersteg, Head of Global Design Thinking @ GF Piping Systems
💧 GF Piping Systems is the leading flow solutions provider across the World.
A 5% Boost on This Growth Funnel Step Easily Makes 95% More Profit. Jackpot?
with 🎙️ Gilles Toussaint, Founder @ GT Impact and Host of the “Mission First – Entrepreneurs for Future” podcast
💧 GT Impact strives to help Greentech companies to increase their revenue with efficient growth marketing sprints and data-driven content marketing
Choosing the Best Suited Ozone Diffusion System. What does Data Say?
with 🎙️ Jim Lauria, Vice President Sales and Marketing at the Mazzei Injector Company and Board Member at the International Ozone Association
💧 Mazzei Injector Company is a global leader in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of venturi injectors, flash reactors, and other high-efficiency mixing technologies and ozone diffusion systems.
How to Speak Up and Empower More Young Water Professionals
with 🎙️ Hasmik Barseghyan, President of the European Youth Parliament for Water, among other strategic roles at the World Water Quality Alliance, the World Energy Council, the International Secretariat for Water, or Woman in Climate and Energy.
💧 The EYPW aims to promote youth involvement in the water sector by increasing their awareness of water resource management issues and by fostering an understanding of citizenship and democracy.
How Biomimicry Leverages the Best of 3.8 Million Years of R&D
with 🎙️ Denise E Mall, Managing Director of EnsO Earth
💧 EnsO Earth focuses on the intersection of living futures, biomimicry, circularity, and ecological design thinking to go beyond sustainable towards regenerative solutions.
Is Software to Measure Water Quality Actually a Matter of Hardware?
with 🎙️ Meena Sankaran, CEO and Founder of KETOS.
💧 KETOS ambitions to transform how water operators measure, manage and forecast water quality and efficiency in Industrial, Agricultural, and Municipal applications.
1001 Reasons Why, the Sustainability Puzzle is a Unique Opportunity
with 🎙️ Alice Schmidt, MBA lecturer, Adviser to the European Commission, and non-profit organizations like Extinction Rebellion, Protect our Winters, and Chair of the Board of Endeva e.V.
with 🎙️ Claudia Winkler, CEO, and co-founder of Goood Mobile, Europe’s first B-Corp Certified telecom provider, and a Founding Partner of Adjacent Possible Network.
💧 Alice and Claudia are the Authors of “the Sustainability Puzzle,” a must-read addressing how systems thinking, circularity, climate action, and social transformation can improve health, wealth, and wellbeing for all.
3 Powerful Tactics Impact Investing shall better use to Save the World
with 🎙️ Florian Heeb & Julian Kölbel – Researchers @ the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) in Zürich
💧 CSP is an academic research and teaching institution at the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich.
Is Water from Air Actually a Scam or a Gift? You’ll Be Astounded!
with 🎙️ Navkaran Singh Bagga – Founder & CEO @ Akvo Atmospheric Water Systems
💧 Akvo produces Water from Air, aka Limitless Water from Unlimited Air
How Long Will it Take to Grow? The 4 Stages of Water Innovation.
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!
The Two Surprising Pillars that Support Israel’s Water Miracle
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’s hidden in your tap water? Don’t worry, your utility doesn’t really know better!
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.
How to Save No Less than 2.2 Billion Lives (aka Frozen 3)
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.
Do you Really Provide Job Security to your Best Workers?
with 🎙️ Gabi Wolkinson – CEO and 🎙️ Ofir Menashe – CTO and Founder of BioCastle – a microbial encapsulation company.
💧 BioCastle is an environmental biotechnology company that encapsulates nature by developing and marketing an intriguing technology: the Small Bioreactor Platform.
How to Treat Wastewater in a Net Grid Positive Way while Mimicking your Body?
with 🎙️ Manaf Farhan – CEO & Co-Founder of EMG International (we discuss anaerobic digestion!)
💧 EMG International is a leading company in Anaerobic Wastewater treatments, with a pretty unique take on anaerobic digestion.
What is the Best Way to Make Four Dollars out of One?
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.
It’s hard to be what you can’t see: How to get more Women in Water?
with 🎙️ Ulrike Kelm – Chair of the Women in Water and Sanitation Network
💧 The Women 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.
How to do Competitive Intelligence in Plain Sight and Share it with Everyone?
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.
Is Entrepreneurship the Missing Link to Shape the Future of the Water Industry?
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.
SUEZ + VEOLIA: Long Live the Newlyweds?
with 🎙️ Antoine WALTER – Podcaster in Chief @ GF Piping Systems
💧 Let’s dive into the last 8 months of the SUEZ Vs. Veolia battle that apparently came to an end on the 12th of April 2021!
Can we Turn Finance (Astoundingly) into the Water Sector’s New Best Ally?
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.
How to Consistently Deliver on the Promise as a Consultant Engineer?
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
Fatbergs Right Ahead? Not if you Harvest the Right Data!
with 🎙️ Brian Moloney – Founder & Managing Director @ StormHarvester
💧 StormHarvester is the leading company in smart drainage systems (and more).
How to Master Kick-Ass Storytelling, Skyrocket your Water Narratives and Boost your Sales?
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
Everything you Always Wanted to Know about MBRs (Without Daring to Ask)
with 🎙️ Graeme Pearce – Director @ Membrane Consultancy Associates
💧 Membrane Consultancy Associates is a consultancy practice bringing expertise and guidance in membrane technology.
What if you could save 12’000 liters a year, from the tip of your foot?
with 🎙️ Steven Kohn – CEO & Founder @ Wisewater
💧 Wisewater aims to provide simple and seamless devices to better conserve our most precious resource, (aka water).
This Astonishing Technology will Turn the Wastewater Sector on its Head! Here’s Why.
with 🎙️ Gilad Yogev – Product Manager MABR Products @ Fluence
💧 Fluence is a global leader in decentralized water and wastewater treatment solutions.
How can a Professional Zebra Skyrocket your Marketing?
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.
How to get Water as a Service, Below Utility Prices, with Zero Money Down
with 🎙️ Matthew Silver – Founder & CEO @ Cambrian Innovation
💧 Cambrian Innovation is a revolutionary provider of distributed wastewater treatment and resource recovery solutions.
How to be a Beacon and Trigger 1.5 Billion New Funding as a Fearless Nonprofit
with 🎙️ Kimberly Baker – Director of Water Innovation at the Elemental Excelerator
💧 Elemental is a non-profit Growth Accelerator supporting entrepreneurs who are building world-changing companies.
Can this Astonishing Aerospace Technology Improve Beer’s Taste?
with 🎙️ Matthew Silver – Founder & CEO @ Cambrian Innovation
💧 Cambrian Innovation is a revolutionary provider of distributed wastewater treatment and resource recovery solutions.
Behind the Scenes of the Hardest Human-Made Material
with 🎙️ Haris Kadrispahic – Head of Innovation @ LiqTech International
💧 LiqTech is a technology company specialized in high-end membrane solutions
How to make the best use of each dollar to cut water losses as a small community?
with 🎙️ Elango Thevar – Founder & CEO @ NEER.ai
💧 NEER.ai is a Start-Up aiming to redefine Water Management through Artificial Intelligence
How to Clear Crazy Pollution Loads in an (Electrical) Breathe
with 🎙️ Orianna BRETSCHGER, Founder & CEO @ Aquacycl
💧 Aquacycl is an award-winning, woman-owned Water Start-Up that might reshape your vision of hard-to-treat wastewaters.
How to Solve a Global Challenge in an Easy, Affordable, Innovative, and Efficient Way?
with 🎙️ Fajer Mushtaq – Co-Founder & CEO @ Oxyle AG
💧 Aquacycl is an award-winning Water Start-Up offering a Swiss Solution to a Global Problem.
Invisible Yet Actually in your Blood: Behind the Scenes of the PFAS Threat
with 🎙️ Anthony DUSOVIC – Vice-President Strategic Projects @ SUEZ in North America
💧 SUEZ in North America is the US’ second-largest environmental services firm.
Save Time, Boost Value and Wow Customers in a Snap with these 5 Simple (AI) Steps
with 🎙️ Ari RAIVETZ – CEO @ Transcend Software Inc.
💧 Transcend is an incredibly innovative company that provides software to automate any vertical asset’s preliminary engineering.
How to Clear Remote Places’ Problems, Solve Environmental Issues and Revive Wastewater in a Blast?
with 🎙️ Paul VAN DE GRIFT – Business Developer @ Bluecon International
💧 Bluecon International is a company that developed a compact system for decentralized municipal wastewater treatment.
How to Cleverly Embrace the Digital Craze in the Water Industry?
with 🎙️ Antoine WALTER – Podcaster in Chief @ GF Piping Systems
💧 GF Piping Systems is the global expert for the safe and reliable transportation of water, chemicals, and gas.
Water Sustainability is Only 4 Steps Away (If You Escape Those 3 Pitfalls!)
with 🎙️ Nick NICHOLAS – Technical Director @ Genesis Water
💧 Genesis Water Technologies is an award-winning leader in specialized drinking water & wastewater treatment and reuse solutions.
How to Actually Surpass a Life of Uncertain Piloting with this Simple Hack
with 🎙️ Wim AUDENAERT – CEO and Co-Founder @ AM-TEAM
💧 AM-TEAM is a company offering leading-edge simulation services for process optimization and design.
Behind the Scenes of the VEOLIA/SUEZ Bomb: Will It Really Happen?
with 🎙️ Sebastien MOURET – Europe and CIS Editor @ Global Water Intelligence
💧 Global Water Intelligence is the leading publisher and events organizer serving the international water industry.
Will this Bodybuilder’s Secret Disrupt Water Treatment?
with 🎙️ Sreenath BOLISETTY – CEO and Co-Founder @ BluAct Technologies
💧 BluAct Technologies is an award-winning spin-off company of ETH Zürich that ambitions to trigger a revolution in water purification.
How to Reach 23k Followers in a Few Months in the Water Industry
with 🎙️ Walid KHOURY – Passionate Water Strategist & LinkedIn Influencer
💧 Walid Khoury is followed by over 23’000 water professionals on LinkedIn, where he runs daily water talks under his #WaterQuestion channel, both in written and video form.
How to Reap Heavy Benefits out of a Sumo
with 🎙️ Imre TAKACS – CEO and founder @ Dynamita
💧 Dynamita is the company that markets SUMO, a wastewater process simulator with open model source code.
The Fine Line Between Plug and Play & Plug and Pray
with 🎙️ Ravid LEVY – Founder and Consultant @ RLV-consulting services
💧 Ravid Levy is the founder of RLV consulting services and a former VP Technology for Fluence and CTO for RWL water.
It’s Time to Recover that Damn Wastewater!
with 🎙️ Christos CHARISIADIS – R&D Engineer @ Lenntech
💧 Lenntech dedicates to innovative water treatment and membrane separation solutions. Their mission is to provide their customers with the most professional, efficient, and reliable water treatment service available.
How to Fight a Pandemic (With the Help of Your Feces)
with 🎙️ Ari GOLDFARB – CEO @ KANDO
💧 KANDO is a company that provides wastewater insights to cities by analyzing real-time data that is retrieved from IOT sensors located at strategic points around the network.
The Astonishing Journey of a (forthcoming) French-Tech Unicorn
with 🎙️ Stéphane GILBERT – CEO and co-founder @ AQUASSAY.
💧 Aquassay is a water efficiency expert company, that optimizes both environmental and industrial performances of water uses and treatments.
The 10 Secrets to an Outstanding Innovation Culture (that Boil Down to One)
with 🎙️ Katia WASIAK – CTO and General Manager @ SUEZ WTS
💧 Katia Wasiak is Chief Technical Officer of the Purification and Disinfection BU at SUEZ WTS, as well as General Manager of Degremont Technologies in Switzerland.
How to Almost Double Treatment Capacity in About No Time
with 🎙️ Thomas DEBRUYNE – Asia Pacific Digital Manager @ Veolia Water Technologies
💧 Thomas Debruyne is Asia-Pacific Digital Manager for Veolia Water Technologies. He also holds a role of Food & Beverage Market Segment Manager, and is a former Operation Director Network Services, and General Manager Smart Water Services.
How Ideas Come to Life in Water & Wastewater Treatment
with 🎙️ Ravid LEVY – Founder @ RLV Consulting
💧 Ravid Levy is the founder of RLV consulting services and a former VP Technology for Fluence and CTO for RWL water..
How to Solve the Wastewater Riddle in 6 Steps
with 🎙️ Laurent DE FRANCESCHI – Head of Applications @ SUEZ WTS
💧 SUEZ WTS is the industry-leading water technology and process expert to solve the toughest water, wastewater and process challenges.