😮 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 ⬇
with 🎙️ Antoine Walter, Podcaster in Chief at GF Piping Systems
Season 4
Water Wars in France? The 4 Riddles it Raises.
Everybody predicted Water Wars would eventually happen one day, and for many places in the World, we’re far past the days where these conflicts would just be a concept. Yet, the scenes that we experienced in France over the past few days came as a surprise, in a water-rich first World country. What does it reveal?
with 🎙️ Antoine Walter, Podcaster in Chief at GF Piping Systems
17 Decisive Insights that could Actually Impact the Water Industry
with 🎙️ Antoine Walter, Podcaster in Chief at GF Piping Systems – happy to share the Water Industry Insights he collected for you over the past 6 months!
💧 19 guests shared 1’114 minutes of Wisdom in this Season 4. I dived a bit deeper into 17 of these learnings to add my pinch of salt!
How to Make your Wastewater Treatment Plant Remarkably Carbon Negative
with 🎙️ Geoff Ward, CEO of Hazer Group Limited (nb: Hazer stands for “Hydrogen And Zero Emission Research)
💧 Hazer Group Limited is a pioneering company undertaking the commercialization of a low-emission hydrogen and graphite production process.
Is the Hydrogen Economy actually an Astounding Investment Opportunity?
with 🎙️ Alena Fargere, Principal at SWEN Capital Partners and co-founder of the first European investment fund dedicated to renewable gases.
💧 SWEN Capital Partners, a benchmark player in sustainable investments in private equity, just announced the first closing of its second SWEN Impact Fund for Transition (SWIFT 2). It will be a direct contribution to decarbonizing the economy and creating jobs in France.
Is Hydrogen more of a Water Sector Miracle or a World’s Decarbonization Problem?
with 🎙️ Paul Martin, Chemical process development expert & founder of Spitfire Research.
💧 Spitfire research is a Process development consulting company for a decarbonized future, where Paul acts as an antidote to marketing hopium and a tireless advocate for a fossil-fuel-free future.
The Best Industrial Wastewater Treatment System Is The One You Forget
with 🎙️ Jonathan Rhone, President, and CEO of Axine Water Technologies
Axine Water Technologies owns, operates, and guarantees the on-site electrochemical oxidation systems that destroy the toughest organics in industrial wastewater, a treatment-as-a-service model that drew a US$15M strategic investment from water-instrument maker Veralto in 2024. Plant operators never run the process themselves, which is the point: the best industrial wastewater system is the one a company can forget.
Is Supercritical Water Oxidation a Solution for PFAS, Energy (& More)?
with 🎙️ Kobe Nagar, CEO & Co-Founder at 374Water
374Water destroys PFAS and other organics at over 99.99 percent using supercritical water oxidation (SCWO), pushing waste past water’s critical point at 374 degrees Celsius where contaminants mineralize in 4 to 40 seconds. Its containerized AirSCWO AS6 reactor runs energy positive, tapping the chemical energy in sludge to sustain the reaction and generate power at scale.
How to Establish Compliance Confidence for Every Water Utility
with 🎙️ David Lynch, CEO & Co-Founder at Klir
💧 Klir is building the All-In-One Operating System for Water.
Can Groundwater Trading help California save $580 million per year?
with 🎙️ Ellen Bruno, Extension Economist @ UC Berkeley
💧 The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley leads research and outreach on economic and policy issues relevant to California’s agriculture and natural resources.
Could We Please Stop Burning Industrial Wastewater? This is Much Better!
with 🎙️ Steven De Laet, CEO & Founder of Inopsys
InOpSys treats hazardous pharmaceutical and chemical wastewater on-site as a one-to-one replacement for incineration, recovering palladium, zinc, and other valuable materials, and was acquired by Indaver in 2024. The Belgian scale-up, founded in 2015, raised US$9.2 million across two rounds to scale its pay-per-use Plant-on-a-Truck model.
Are you Still Fighting Green Algae? Here’s What to do Instead!
with 🎙️ Cesar Narvaez, CEO & Founder of NXO Engineering
💧 NXO Engineering is a deep tech startup in the Water and Sanitation industry developing a new generation of wastewater treatment plants.
How to Use a Costly Material to bring Membrane Treatment Costs Down
with 🎙️ Sebastian Andreassen, CCO, Director and Co-Founder of Cembrane
Cembrane makes silicon carbide ceramic membranes that turn an expensive material into the lower-cost choice for water treatment, running at high flux where polymer membranes foul and clog. Founded in Denmark in 2014, the company was acquired by Ovivo in 2021 to scale module production across Europe and North America.
Four Successful Exits and Counting: What’s next, disrupting UV Disinfection?
with 🎙️ Wayne Byrne, CEO of Typhon Treatment Systems
Typhon Treatment Systems raised US$5.0M in 2019 to scale mercury-free ultraviolet LED (UV-LED) disinfection reactors and run the world’s largest UV-LED installation with United Utilities, an ambitious bid to unseat the vapor-mercury lamps the water sector had relied on for 25 years. The Ireland-based startup, founded in 2014, is now defunct, dead in the commercialization chasm between a proven pilot and scaled adoption.
The Best Insights of the Internet of Water might not be Where you Think
with 🎙️ Ramzi Bouzerda, CEO and founder of Droople
Droople is a Swiss water-intelligence company that has raised US$4.2M since 2021 to digitize the last mile utilities leave blind, the point-of-use assets sitting past the main meter of any building. Its sensor-agnostic iLink edge device converts raw flow data into leak detection and predictive maintenance insight, the foundation of what Droople calls the Internet of Water.
How to make Hydraulic Modeling so Easy that even You will want to Use It!
with 🎙️ Luke Butler, Director of Innovation at Qatium
💧 Qatium is a new frontier in digital water management, giving utilities of all sizes the visibility to improve network performance, identify efficiencies and ensure continuity of service.
How Water Trading Unbelievably Killed One Million Fishes (and a River)
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.
How To Irresistibly Rise in Sub-Saharan Africa When All Water Experts Step Out
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.