Season 3

If Climate Change was a shark, water would be its teeth – once we’ve said that, what happens? Not much. Still, 70% of Climate Change’s consequences will be felt through water. Isn’t it time to better prepare for Climate Change Adaptation? Let’s explore:

with 🎙️ Lauren Enright – Founder of Axiom Climate LLC

with 🎙️ Michael Stanley Gallisdorfer – Water Sustainability Strategist

💧 Lauren, Michael, and Indrani Pal will lead a Session Day at the upcoming American Geophysical Union Meeting in Chicago: “Adapting to Climate Change: Innovative Solutions for Building Water Resilience to Long-term Meteorological & Hydrological Change.”

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Puraffinity has raised US$26.1M to scale a bio-based adsorbent that captures PFAS for reuse instead of destroying the forever chemicals. The British company, founded in 2015 and backed by Kindred Capital, Octopus Ventures, and BGF, runs its Puratech G400 media at deployment scale, replacing far larger volumes of conventional activated carbon in PFAS treatment.

💧 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.

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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.

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with 🎙️ Aaron Tartakovsky, CEO and Co-Founder of Epic Cleantec  

Epic Cleantec has raised US$24.0M to recycle a building’s own wastewater into onsite water reuse for toilet flushing, cooling towers, and irrigation, treating greywater and blackwater where they are produced instead of piping them to a central plant. The San Francisco company runs this distributed treatment to relieve centralized networks as most of humanity moves into cities by 2050.

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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!

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with 🎙️ Henrik Hagemann is the CEO and Co-Founder of Puraffinity.   

Puraffinity strips PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) from contaminated water using a bio-based adsorbent media that selectively binds the forever chemicals conventional filters let through. The UK company has raised US$26.07M across a 2019 seed and two Series A rounds, scaling the material from lab tests toward drinking-water and industrial treatment.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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. 

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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.

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with 🎙️ Lea Im Obersteg, Head of Global Design Thinking @ GF Piping Systems

💧 GF Piping Systems is the leading flow solutions provider across the World.

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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

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Ozone diffusion moves dissolved ozone into water two ways, fine bubble diffusers on a basin floor or sidestream venturi injection, the method Mazzei has built since 1978 from its base in the United States. Fine bubble diffusion relies on bubble size, contact area, and rise time, while sidestream injection pulls a slipstream through a venturi and mixes ozone in seconds.

💧 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.

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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.

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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.

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with 🎙️ Meena Sankaran, CEO and Founder of KETOS.

KETOS SHIELD, an autonomous sensor, measures water quality by detecting heavy metals down to parts-per-billion across 30+ parameters using anodic stripping voltammetry. The software intelligence rides on that hardware, which is why the company built both layers in-house after raising US$45.3M across four priced rounds since 2015.

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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.

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