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.

What we covered: 

🍎 How Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia host the World's most pressing Water Challenges 

🤔 How the Water Industry feels more confident, serving the Asian than African market, and why 

🍎 How there's an overall lack of understanding around what Africa and the Sub-Saharan region are 

🍏 The drivers that make this region incredibly attractive if you know how to address it 

🍏 How the reluctance of Water Multinationals to serve the Sub-Saharan region creates a void and an opportunity in the market 

🙋 How Desalytics aims to address this market, and how it's at the same time an innovative and bold move 

🌎 How Blended Finance and Industrial projects are totally different and shall be approached accordingly 

🍏 How the "Desalytics" Idea was cooking in Walid's head for over 12 years 

🍏 How to beef up your water marketing and sales engine, and how to build it up from scratch with 2021 tools 

💪 How to drive awareness on the African potential, brilliant minds, and tremendous opportunities 

🍏 How Desalytics' path furiously resembles the expected trajectory of hypergrowth companies, and how they might achieve it without burning Venture Money 

🧮 How the company ambitions to grow into a full vertical, catered to an underserved market 

🍏 Gender Diversity, Finding time to grow simultaneously in so many places, having a positive impact... and much more!

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

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/18-months-left-to-close-the-gap-beware-the-water-clock-is-ticking/">https://dww.show/how-to-irresistibly-rise-in-sub-saharan-africa-when-all-water-experts-step-out/

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Walid Khoury shares his vision of Sub-Saharan Africa, quite far from the usual preconceptions, and explains how much of an incredible business opportunity it represents, if you take the water market right.

🎙️ Walid Khoury is the Founder and General Manager of Desalytics, and a Social Water guru bringing 28k water professionals together with his LinkedIn #WaterQuestions

To discover the full interview, type "S4E5 - How To Irresistibly Rise in Sub-Saharan Africa When All Water Experts Step Out"

You can also find Walid's interview on the (don't) Waste Water website: https://dww.show/how-to-irresistibly-rise-in-sub-saharan-africa-when-all-water-experts-step-out/(opens in a new tab)">https://dww.show/how-to-irresistibly-rise-in-sub-saharan-africa-when-all-water-experts-step-out/

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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.

What we covered: 

🏃‍♀️ How Mina Guli ran across 7 deserts on 7 continents in 7 weeks to raise awareness on Water Scarcity   

🏃‍♀️ How she completed 40 marathons in 40 days and started a 100 marathons in 100 days series, then broke her leg in #62 

🍏 How her bringing the "Close the Gap" message across to 4 billion people is proof that we're all capable of doing anything 

📚 How the Water Crisis is the story of People, and how we shall get them heard 

🍏 How we must find a way to accelerate action to Close the Gap 

🙋 How we need to put water onto the global agenda 

🌎 How the UN Conference on Water in 2023 is our opportunity to move the needle and Close that Gap 

💪 How there's Jeff Bezos, the Pope... and Mina on Fortune Magazine's list of the 50 greatest leaders in the World 

🍎 How regardless of where you are on earth, Water Scarcity will impact you through the goods you consume 

🍎 How if we don't care, there's always going to be something more important or simpler than water to put on a corporate agenda 

🍏 How the right scale to ignite action might be the companies, as they are quick to act when something impacts their supply chains or their bottom line 

🍏 How Water is the main ingredient in everything we grow or manufacture, and how it's not as simple as water price equals water value 

💪 How individually you can have an impact but together we can change the World 

🧮 People filling in for Marathons 63 to 100, Agriculture as a key battlefield, the role of individuals, regulators, and policymakers... and much more!

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

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/18-months-left-to-close-the-gap-beware-the-water-clock-is-ticking/">https://dww.show/18-months-left-to-close-the-gap-beware-the-water-clock-is-ticking/

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Mina Guli shares inspirational thoughts on how to move the needle and speed up things to solve the Water Crisis, close the gap, and achieve SDG6 in due time. The time to act is now, with the UN-Water Conference in 2023 as our window of opportunity. 

🎙️ Mina Guli is the CEO and Co-Founder of the Thirst Foundation, the Director of the Antarctic Science Foundation, the Director of the Global Water Partnership and Adventurer. Oh, and one of Fortune Magazine's 50 greatest leaders in the World!

To discover the full interview, type "S4E4 - 18 Months Left to "Close the Gap": Beware, the Water Clock is Ticking!"

You can also find Mina's interview on the (don't) Waste Water website: https://dww.show/18-months-left-to-close-the-gap-beware-the-water-clock-is-ticking/(opens in a new tab)">https://dww.show/18-months-left-to-close-the-gap-beware-the-water-clock-is-ticking/(opens in a new tab)

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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.

What we covered: 

🍎 How Water and Wastewater management has not changed much over the past two centuries  

🍎 Hot the centralized water management approach may suffer from the increased loads if 70% of Humanity is to live in cities by 2050 

🍏 How the Energy Sector can (again) be used as a guideline towards the Water Sector's future 

🧮 How up to 95% of a building's water use can be covered with recycled water sources and onsite water reuse 

🍏 How the byproducts of water in wastewater can provide tremendous value 

🍏 How cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Austin lead the pack, with onsite water reuse regulations 

🌱 How distributed water management will dramatically enhance the system's resilience by reducing interdependencies 

🍏 How there's a last frontier to break: overcoming the "Yuck" factor - and how to do so 

🤔 How Epic Cleantec addresses and discusses the problem more than the solution in their marketing - and why 

🧮 How they actually treat the wastewater in buildings - and what's inside their "black box." 

🍏 How Epic's system is deployed in a 20 story office in San Jose - and what this onsite water reuse enables 

🍏 How "one size fits all" simply never applies in the Water Industry - and how Epic Cleantec deals with this 

🧮 Business Model, GoTo Market routes, the secret to success as a disruptive start-up, Accumulating (well-deserved) Awards... and much more!

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

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/central-water-management-networks-wont-handle-2050-time-for-an-epic-move-onsite-water-reuse/(opens in a new tab)">https://dww.show/central-water-management-networks-wont-handle-2050-time-for-an-epic-move-onsite-water-reuse/

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Aaron Tartakovsky guides us through the challenges and opportunities around Water Management in Cities - from raving urbanization to outlasting our water networks through circular resource loops and onsite water reuse.

🎙️ Aaron Tartakovsky is the CEO and Co-Founder of Epic Cleantec. a company that offers end-to-end services for onsite water reuse systems.

To discover the full interview, type "S4E3 - Central Water Management Networks won't Handle 2050. Time for an Epic Move?"

You can also find Aaron's interview on the (don't) Waste Water website: https://dww.show/central-water-management-networks-wont-handle-2050-time-for-an-epic-move-onsite-water-reuse/">https://dww.show/central-water-management-networks-wont-handle-2050-time-for-an-epic-move-onsite-water-reuse/

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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!

What we covered: 

🍏 How there's a fourth phase of Water, beyond solid, liquid, and gas  

🌱 Where the 4th phase of Water forms, and how 

🧮 How Light may be creating the Exclusion Zone Water (or EZ Water) 

🧮 How the Fourth phase of Water bears a negative charge and thus may enable... a Water Battery! 

🍏 How the 4th Phase of Water can be leveraged in the Water Industry 

🍏 How the formation of EZ Water bears a surprising resemblance to the first step of Photosynthesis 

📜 How Gerald Pollack's work follows in the steps of Boris Derjaguin's discovery of "Polywater" 

😲 How Water is a surprisingly low investigated field of fundamental science (despite many water questions being still open) 

🤔 How "Fourth Phase Water" somehow barely isn't Water anymore and could have been called "semi-liquid" or "crystalline water" 

🍏 How like-charged particles may well attract each other without breaking any law of fundamental physics 

🍎 How "EZ Water" opens the door to discuss esoteric water topics like the theories of Viktor Schauberger and Rudolf Steiner 

🍏 How many known everyday phenomenons may be better explained through the lens of "EZ Water" 

🧮 Challenging prestigious names and theories, advocating for a "Venture Science" approach to research, discussing the memory of Water, and so much more!

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

➡️ Get a glimpse into the episode's matter with this video: https://youtu.be/UTnqiNMolpg

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Gerald Pollack explores the fundamentals of Water for a couple of decades. In 2013 he published "the Fourth Phase of Water, Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Gas". Since then, he continued working on the matter, publishing over 300 scientific papers.

🎙️ Gerald Pollack is a professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the WATER research journal, the Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science, and the author of - among other books - "The Fourth Phase of Water."

To discover the full interview, type "S4E2 - Solid, Liquid, Gas, And... A Fourth Phase of Water?!"

Get a glimpse into the episode's matter with this video: https://youtu.be/UTnqiNMolpg

You can also find Gerald's interview on the (don't) Waste Water website: https://dww.show/solid-liquid-gas-and-a-fourth-phase-of-water/(opens in a new tab)">https://dww.show/solid-liquid-gas-and-a-fourth-phase-of-water/(opens in a new tab)

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SUEZ and VEOLIA shall merge by the end of this year (at least partially), after a long battle... that's apparently still not over!

Let's review the previous steps. VEOLIA acquired 29.9% of SUEZ from ENGIE and tendered the remaining 70.1% last July.

Everything fine? Well, on Friday 29/10, the French Justice announced, that they were investigating the role that the French Presidency played in this very first step. 

Did the Elysée Palast (and especially General Secretary Alexis Kohler) collude with ENGIE, VEOLIA, and MERIDIAM to agree on cutting SUEZ apart?

And if yes, can it still slow down the process, or is it just another episode of a long drama? Let's quickly review while it's hot!

🔙 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

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

💧 Puraffinity is a GreenTech Company that designs smart materials for environmental applications.

What we covered: 

🍎 What Polyfluoroalkyl Substances - or PFAS - actually are  

🍎 How these PFAS enter the Water Cycle somewhen along the way but never exit it. In other words, they bioaccumulate in all of us! 

🧮 How finding PFAS in >97% of people has consequences on health, wellbeing, and overall societal costs 

🧮 How PFAS liabilities may also be a risk for the corporate world and Fortune 100 companies 

🍏 How Puraffinity may light a bulb of hope in PFAS treatments, thanks to a sort of "Chemical Pacman" 

🍏 How "Forever Chemicals" are only eternal because we don't take them seriously (yet)! 

🌱 How PFAS could be reused and regenerated from the recycled solvent medium 

🌱 How you can control PFAS flows, removals, and by-products (and how you need to go beyond LC-MS for that) 

😲 How the bottleneck to PFAS treatments might be at an unexpected place: a shortage of operators 

🍏 Where PFAS treatments shall ideally be located, and what shape they should take 

🌱 How we shall move on from the human-centric approach to water treatment to also consider the price tag attached to biodiversity losses 

🧮 How to best nudge the adoption of PFAS treatments, from regulations to market incentives through investor activism 

🧮 How spinning off from academia to entrepreneurship involves a mindset shift and a readiness for war 

🍏 Cycling across the World, studying with monks, time to adoption of new water technologies, being a Forbes 30 under 30 and MIT tech review 35 under 35... and much more!

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

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-to-treat-pfas-out-of-water-and-protect-our-health-economy-and-biodiversity/">https://dww.show/how-to-treat-pfas-out-of-water-and-protect-our-health-economy-and-biodiversity/

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