Ellen Bruno explains how better understanding the price (in)elasticity of Water Demand shall influence policies, to make sure that Water flows to its best use. Her research at UC Berkeley tends to demonstrate that Water Trading and at least Groundwater Pricing shall better the water efficiency as compared to the status quo - even when market power disturbs the market.

🎙️ Ellen Bruno is an extension economist at UC Berkeley, conducting research and outreach on economic and policy issues relevant to California’s agriculture and natural resources. 

To discover the full interview, type "S4E13 - Could we Please Stop Burning Industrial Wastewater? This is Much Better!"

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with 🎙️ Steven De Laet, CEO & Founder of Inopsys 

💧 Inopsys provides mobile & modular side stream on-site solutions for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

What we covered: 

🔥 How many industrial wastewater streams still get incinerated nowadays (and how they sometimes make long routes before!)

💸 How the unsustainable solution isn't even the cheapest one 

🌱 How onsite treatment of industrial wastewater has welcome side-effects (and how CoVid helped to bring those in clear sight) 

🧮 How Inopsys offers a one-to-one replacement to industrial wastewater incineration with its DBFOM approach

🍎 How everybody talks about entrepreneurship, sustainability, and circular economy but not everybody walks the talk

🍏 How in target industries, regulation is not the main driver anymore (and what it is instead)

🍎 How in further verticals, sustainability is still a competitive disadvantage

🍏 How Inopsys deals with inquiries and why they target the most challenging hazardous waste streams

🧮 How an agnostic approach to treatment technologies is the best way to treat the "industrial soup"

🟥 How focusing on the streams, anyone else desperately tries to avoid places you aside from the Water Industry's red ocean

🏭 How Inopsys' first reference went frontally against what they stated in their business plan!

🍏 Treatment modularity, operating in clusters, building trust to allow "someone in your kitchen," finding early adopters... and much more!

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

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Steven De Laet explains how industrial wastewater management has to shift from an approach where we truck it away in tankers to an approach where wastewater is treated onsite. He's also showing how this is cheaper and more sustainable, while his DBFOM approach (Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Maintain) makes it a one-to-one replacement to wastewater incineration.

🎙️ Steven De Laet is the CEO & Founder of Inopsys, a company providing mobile & modular side stream on-site solutions for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

To discover the full interview, type "S4E12 - Could we Please Stop Burning Industrial Wastewater? This is Much Better!"

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SUEZ and VEOLIA just announced two new CEOs:

- Sabrina Soussan, taking over SUEZ's lead anytime soon

- Estelle Brachlianoff, set to replace Antoine Frérot as head of VEOLIA this July

Two women in charge of the #WaterIndustry's n°1 and n°3, but also two very different persons!

Let's review their path, future challenges, and chances of success!

PS: Dear Estelle, dear Sabrina, whenever you watch this, you're very welcome on my podcast microphone 😉

🔙 PREVIOUSLY on the SUEZ/VEOLIA story: 🔙

1) Drop the Bomb: May VEOLIA buy SUEZ? https://dww.show/behind-the-scenes-of-the-veolia-suez-bomb-will-it-really-happen/

2) SUEZ & VEOLIA: Long Live the Newlyweds? https://youtu.be/-iA__IaJl48

3) Is the SUEZ - VEOLIA merger at risk? 

Wanna join the discussion? Come tell me on LinkedIn!

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with 🎙️ Antoine Walter, Podcaster in Chief and Senior Business Development Manager @ GF Piping Systems

💧 GF Piping Systems is the leading flow solutions provider, specializing in process automation solutions to ensure sustainable water management for life.

It's been an amazing year on the (don't) Waste Water podcast! 

52 awesome guests shared a wealth of knowledge on the microphone, and we covered a vast array of topics. Too much to digest in 10 minutes? No worries, I cooked you a series of syntheses to give you a sound understanding of some key topics. 

The deal? If you like it, please share it with your friends!

Let's conclude this series of deep dives with this last one. Urbanization progresses at a galloping rate and it has consequences on our Water Infrastructure.

Why do people move to cities? What does it change for our Water Networks? And for the Water Cycle? What's the place of Nature and Nature-Based Solutions in this Urbanization bloom? What's the next frontier?

Let's review all of it!

➡️ Wanna dive more into the topic of Urbanization and its impact on Water Management? Listen to my full interviews with these selected guests:

🎙️ Aaron Tartakovksy - S4E3 

🎙️ Ramzi Bouzerda - S4E8 

🎙️ Navkaran Singh Bagga - S3E4 

🎙️ Hasmik Barseghyan - S3E9 

🎙️ Marc Barra - S3E19 

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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.

What we covered: 

🌱 How Green Algae might not be your enemy, despite years of Activated Sludge bulking 

🍏 How it might be about time to challenge the status quo in Wastewater Treatment 

🌱 How beyond CAPEX considerations, looking at energy consumptions, OPEX and carbon emissions shall be the future of the Water Industry 

🧮 How NXO managed to run a successful proof of concept against all odds and market standards 

🍏 How leveraging green algae may turn eutrophication into a positive concept 

🍏 How decision-makers are ready to shift their Key Performance Indicators to global impact 

🌱 How the next step will be to turn the process totally chemical-free by leveraging cacti slime 

🍏 How NXO managed to successfully downsize equipment and processes 

🧮 How they turn out to build an EPC (almost) from scratch, and how challenging that may be 

🏭 How the concept might be adapted for industrial applications and the company's overall outlook for growth 

🍏 Green Algae as deep tech, getting support from the largest french research institutes but also getting their pilot plant degraded 8 (!) times, grit, passion... and much more!

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

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Cesar Narvaez explains how green algae treat carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus out of wastewater in a very energy-efficient fashion, while capturing carbon and producing biomass that can, in turn, be transformed into biogas, aka energy.

🎙️ Cesar Narvaez is the CEO & Founder of NXO Engineering, a deep tech startup in the Water and Sanitation industry developing a new generation of wastewater treatment plants.

To discover the full interview, type "S4E11 - Are you Still Fighting Green Algae? Here’s What to do Instead!"

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with 🎙️ Antoine Walter, Podcaster in Chief and Senior Business Development Manager @ GF Piping Systems

💧 GF Piping Systems is the leading flow solutions provider, specializing in process automation solutions to ensure sustainable water management for life.

It's been an amazing year on the (don't) Waste Water podcast! 

52 awesome guests shared a wealth of knowledge on the microphone, and we covered a vast array of topics. Too much to digest in 10 minutes? No worries, I cooked you a series of syntheses to give you a sound understanding of some key topics. 

The deal? If you like it, please share it with your friends!

There's Water everywhere around you... and good chances that you never noticed it! Industrial applications consume a lot of water (about 20% of the World's overall consumption), yet Industrial Water is rarely a focus for Industry operators.

And that may become a major weakness for them: when Water Scarcity limits the availability of Water, Industries have to reduce their activity or shut down (like it recently happened in Taïwan)

What can Industrial players do about it? Well probably, reuse more water. But also simply raise their awareness of their dependency on Water as an integral part of their bottom line.

➡️ Go the extra mile with the Video I tease you in this episode on industrial water! 

➡️ Wanna dive more into the topic of Industrial Water? Listen to my full interviews with these selected guests:

🎙️ Mina Gulli - S4E4 

🎙️ Henrik Hagemann - S4E1 

🎙️ Claudia Winkler and Alice Schmidt - S3E6 

🎙️ Navkaran Singh Bagga - S3E4 

🎙️ Manaf Farhan - S2E18 

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with 🎙️ Antoine Walter, Podcaster in Chief and Senior Business Development Manager @ GF Piping Systems

💧 GF Piping Systems is the leading flow solutions provider, specializing in process automation solutions to ensure sustainable water management for life.

It's been an amazing year on the (don't) Waste Water podcast! 

52 awesome guests shared a wealth of knowledge on the microphone, and we covered a vast array of topics. Too much to digest in 10 minutes? No worries, I cooked you a series of syntheses to give you a sound understanding of some key topics. 

The deal? If you like it, please share it with your friends!

Nature-Based Solutions are by definition not a new trend, but a reconnection to what nature does best. It may sometimes convey the image of a "hippie science" but when you look closer, that's absolutely wrong!

Nature-Based Solutions come in various sizes and flavors: Circular Economy, Biomimicry, Donut Economy, Net Positive Water... More and more we see green engineering complimenting, enhancing, and sometimes replacing grey approaches.

Here's what you shall know about it in just 5 minutes!

➡️ Wanna dive more into the topic of Nature-Based Solutions? Listen to my full interviews with these selected guests:

🎙️ Denise Mall - S3E8  

🎙️ James Murray - S3E18 

🎙️ Marc Barra - S3E19 

🎙️ Silvana Di Sabatino - S3E20 

🎙️ Michael Stanley Gallisdorfer - S2E17 

🎙️ Claudia Winkler and Alice Schmidt - S3E6 

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with 🎙️ Sebastian Andreassen, CCO, Director and Co-Founder of Cembrane 

💧 Cembrane is the world's largest producer of Silicon Carbide (SiC) membranes for OEMs & System integrators within Water & wastewater treatment.

What we covered: 

🍏 How to build a Water Company from scratch in a challenging market and application 

🍏 How to shake things up in Membrane Treatments by pushing a challenger technology 

🌱 Where to start and how to find early adopters that dare to try new things, why they're ready to take the plunge, and how you can leverage it yourself 

🧮 How key it is to achieve Product-Market Fit and how to do (including, how to define the right portion of the vertical you intend to serve) 

🍏 How to sell your baby to a larger company and what it enables (for instance, doubling your production capacity and ambitioning to take a market by storm) 

🧮 How ceramic membranes' higher flux results in a 4-1 better energetical ratio than polymeric ones 

🔬 How you can scientifically prove your plant to work over 20 years when your oldest reference is 6 years old 

🍏 How ceramic membranes may be easier to operate but also have their own threats, like the ceramic plates you may have at home 

🍎 How challenging it is to introduce new technology in the water treatment industry, where risk-taking isn't exactly embraced 

🤝🏻 How the deal with Ovivo was built over time and sounded like a natural evolution 

🤔 How that comes with its own challenge, by somehow becoming a competitor to the existing customer base in certain geographies 

🍏 Building a company that's here to stay, outpacing the market, taking calculated risks - and how it does not always turn well, innovation through implementation... and much more!

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

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