🎙️ Christopher Gasson is the owner and editor of Global Water Intelligence, a leading magazine and insight company in the Water Industry. In this week's episode, he explains how only two things are universal in water (with a third starting to appear). And how it would be "Global Water Stupidity" not to try to bring these global water business fields together, as an industry media and thought leader. 

Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E2 - How to Systemically drive Money into Water and escape Global Water Stupidity" in the search bar!

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with 🎙️ Reinhard Hübner, CEO of SKion Water, 2021's Water Company of the Year 

💧 SKion Water is an international water technology platform, that aims to empower water technology companies to make a difference. 

What we covered: 

📈 How SKion Water was built from scratch in a decade, to reach about 750 M€ yearly turnover  

🛣️ How building a successful water company all starts with choosing your path (and what the options are)  

🤑 How cheap money comes with drawbacks and how this can be problematic for water entrepreneurs 

🤪 How water market capitalizations totally go through the roof these days (and what to think about it) 

☠️ How there's no magical way to skip steps and how it is dangerous to even try 

💧 How the water industry is segmented, and how important it is to target the right section of the food chain 

🤯 How it might be tempting to see yourself as much more clever than everyone before, and how that can lead to terrible mistakes as a water entrepreneur 

🌳 How trees don't grow up to the sky, and how being reasonable on your business expectations is the best way to really deliver 

🤝 How it might be tempting to see tremendous synergies between various branches of the water industry... and how those rarely (if ever) exist 

🍏 How what matters at the end of the day is less the plan than the way you execute it (and how you might have to go in the trenches) 

🧱 All in all, how Reinhard built the 2021 "Water Company of the Year" 

💧  How Reinhart almost fell into investing by accident 

🍏 The two reasons why one would want to invest in Water (despite all the challenges) 

🍎 How SKion's success was born in early, rapid, and spectacular failures 

🍏 How the focus is not to acquire companies but to serve the real customer needs (and the foolproof trick to always keep that market pulse) 

👝 How the Water Sector's structure is quite unique in terms of company sizes and how a certain one doesn't exist at all 

💰 What's the best way to invest in water companies and why 

🧍 Who are the best water entrepreneur profiles, why, and how they have to take risks 

💸 Water Industry's consolidation frenzy, too much money potentially killing companies, crazy valuations, learning from history, giving atypical companies a chance... and much more! 

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

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🎙️ Reinhard Hübner is the CEO of SKion Water and the architect behind the incredible path of a company that went from 0 to 750 M€/year in just a decade. The trick? A rigorous methodology, Reinhard shares in this week's episode, along with reflections on the water market, the water industry, and the sector's overall health (in the age of ESG Investing).

Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E1 - The 7 Secrets of the Water Company of the Year you shall Absolutely Steal!" in the search bar!

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with 🎙️ Antoine Walter, Podcaster in Chief at GF Piping Systems – happy to share the key 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 in 17 of these learnings to add my pinch of salt!

What we covered: 

#1 - We are building New York every month between now and 2050

#2 - The Water Industry underuses one of its most powerful tools: Hydraulic Modeling

#3 - PFAS are a 110€/Year Health Cost for each Human on Earth

#4 - There's a 4th phase of Water, and the Water Industry could leverage it

#5 - SuperCritical Water Oxidation: the Future of Wastewater Treatment?

#6 - There are 6 Strong Drivers for Water Sector Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

#7 - Water can belong to strange market players

#8 - Are UV Disinfection Systems at Regulatory Risk?

#9 - There are billions of Water Assets that could reveal much about our Water Behavior

#10 - Green Algae could disrupt Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment (for the better)

#11 - You can Cut Water Treatment Costs with Expensive Materials

#12 - Groundwater Trading could preserve the resource and increase its Yield

#13 - Green Hydrogen is not a game-changing opportunity for the Water Industry

#14 - Industrial Wastewater gets (astoundingly too often) still incinerated!

#15 - New Business Models open New Water Opportunities

#16 - Specialized Water SaaS can outperform horizontal behemoths (here's why)

#17 - 2023 will be a Crucial Year for Water

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🎙️ I'm your host, Antoine Walter, and I'm taking the microphone this week to close Season 4 of the (don't) Waste Water podcast. I've picked 17 learnings shared by my guests and experts, and tried to dig a bit further! 

This extract is my personal exploration of WHY small and agile water startups building Software as a Service (SaaS) can manage to beat industry horizontal giants. HOW do they do it? WHAT can you learn from it? WHO is the ideal water entrepreneur to achieve just that, and WHERE shall she/he start?

Wanna listen to the other 16 Learnings? Just type "17 Decisive Insights that could Actually Impact the Water Industry" in the search bar!

You can also find the full 17 Learnings on the (don't) Waste Water website         

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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.

This episode is the third part of a Hydrogen Economy trilogy! 

What we covered: 

💪 How Hazer currently builds a large-scale demonstration plant of its technology that produces low emission clean hydrogen 

🔋 How tackling the CH4 bond instead of the H2O one to produce hydrogen returns better energetical yields  

⬛ How next to the valuable hydrogen output, Turquoise Hydrogen production actually also generates a worthy by-product made of almost pure graphite 

📉 How capturing carbon in a handy way opens new perspectives of carbon-negative hydrogen production 

♻️ How leveraging a wastewater treatment plant's biogas production to generate hydrogen is a perfect example of circular economy done right 

🍃 How the water industry will have to cope with its carbon emissions, and how capturing its process carbon could be a perfect solution for that  

🛻 How Turquoise Hydrogen could help decarbonize transportation, but also - and foremost - help make the industrial uses of Hydrogen more sustainable 

🏗️ Which kind of carbon Hazer is actually producing, and where it can be used and valorized 

📈 How big Hazer's demonstration facility will be, and how the company intends to scale up beyond just wastewater treatment plants 

🍏 How integrating hydrogen production with further processes offers plenty of welcome side-effects and win-wins 

⛽ How Turquoise Hydrogen production and ecosystem could be compared to LNG 

🔋 How the placement of wastewater treatment plants in industrial areas is a great asset to turn them into a clean energy source 

🍃 How Hydrogen's competition is not electricity and batteries, but diesel and fossil fuels

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  

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Geoff Ward explains how Hazer Group Limited currently builds a demonstration plant of its revolutionary turquoise hydrogen production process on the Woodman Point wastewater treatment plant in Perth Australia.

🎙️ Geoff Ward is the CEO of Hazer Group Limited, a pioneering company undertaking the commercialization of a low-emission hydrogen and graphite production process. To listen to the full episode type "S4E19 - How to Make your Wastewater Treatment Plant Remarkably Carbon Negative"

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2022 will be the 30th edition of World Water Day. But why was it created in the first place?

Well, the United Nations struggled to bring Water and Sanitation for all, so they set a reminder for everyone.

World Water Day should shine a light on the progress (or not) towards the Goal that's encompassed today within the UN SDG 6.

The problem is that for many, World Water Day is rather "just" a celebration. Is it wrong to celebrate Water? Of course not!

But we should not forget either that 26% of humanity still does not have access to safe drinking water. And that 44% of the World's wastewater is still untreated!

So how do we collectively ensure that World Water Day 2022 is the last one?

➡️ Have a look here for some hints: https://youtu.be/cfLI3rIhfRk

➡️ And don't miss the next Water Show to share some better brains' ideas on how to solve the World's water challenges: https://youtu.be/NhvCT6XppLM

Wanna join the discussion? Come tell me on LinkedIn!

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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.

This episode is the first part of a Hydrogen Economy trilogy! 

What we covered: 

👴 How Hydrogen is around for a while and how it already is quite a big market 

🔥 How Hydrogen may still be perceived as quite risky by the traditional investment space, and how SWEN Capital intends to move the needle by being the first mover  

💰 How there is plenty of capital on the markets today, and how the challenge is to redirect it to its highest impact 

🏦 How the first investment wave in the Hydrogen Economy will unleash further development of the Hydrogen market and players 

📉 How exactly like for renewable energies, scale effects will make Green Hydrogen profitable in the long run 

💪 How SWEN Capital's SWIFT 1 and SWIFT 2 closed and delivered much faster than expected  

🪙 How impact investing is not a charity and how you can be doing good and moving the needle while seeking profitability 

🏗️ How the challenge lies in building and developing suitable business models 

🌬️ How government incentives shall bring a strong tailwind to kick off the Hydrogen Economy, and what may be the best approach  

🍏 How Hydrogen markets start from a carbon-intensive addiction to grey hydrogen and how this may change with blue hydrogen (carbon capture) and green hydrogen (electrolysis from renewables) 

🧑‍🔬 How Hydrogen is fit for many purposes and how it could swiftly become a tool to decarbonize our economy  

🔋 How at the end of the day, Hydrogen is an energy carrier, and how we always strived in a world featuring multiple energies 

🍃 Mixing batteries and fuel cells, reducing the stress on natural resources, building an energy portfolio... and much more! 

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  

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Alena Fargere explains how in the complex equation of a decarbonized world, hydrogen brings a welcome additional energy carrier. Unleashing the Hydrogen Economy will involve a combination of incentives, finance, and technologies, that SWEN Capital commits to unleash!

🎙️ Alena Fargere is Principal at SWEN Capital Partners and co-founder of the first European investment fund dedicated to renewable gases.: "S4E18 - Is the Hydrogen Economy actually an Astounding Investment Opportunity?"

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