The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the world’s leader in ocean discovery, exploration, and education, working to understand and sustain one of humanity’s most precious common resources.

🎙️ Alan Condron, Scientific Researcher, and Climate Modeller at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shares the outcomes of his research and modeling of an Iceberg's route from Antarctica to Cape Town. He addresses advantages and drawbacks, what we know and what we ignore (and it's fascinating!)

To discover the full interview, type "S3E17 - A Climate Modeller's Truth on the Controversial Project of Iceberg Harvesting"

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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.

What we covered:

🍎 How Non-Revenue Water represents 126 billion cubic meters a year and an achievable saving potential of $37 billion a year 

🍎 How the Non-Revenue Water (NRW) question is intricate and multi-faceted 

🧮  How Water you lose on your network not only represents a direct cost but also an indirect one, as you have to produce new water accordingly 

🍏 How innovative solutions like pressure reduction and control on the Water Network can reduce the Water Utilities' headache when it comes to non-revenue water 

🍎 How from a certain point, you shall stop repairing and start rebuilding or replacing your network 

🍎 How many problems come from parts of the networks that were supposed to be disconnected (but were not) 

🧮 How managing a network is a long ball game, where you're juggling with limited budgets and compensating with time and delays 

🍎 How low renewal rates mean expected lifetimes for your piping network which are way above what's reasonably feasible 

🍏 How cutting your network into District Meter Areas (DMAs) and District Meter Zones (DMZs) helps you identifying leaks 

🔍 How managing a network has much to do with forensics, and how you shall exploit every occasion to see the "body" 

🍏 The three ways to regulate pressure on a water network 

🍏 Water management in Algeria, Mozambique, or Vatican, Adoption curve for pressure regulating devices, Teaming up with an Oxford University spin-off... and much more!

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

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GF Piping Systems is, besides the proud sponsor of this podcast, a world leader in flow solutions. It produces and markets a water network pressure management solution that aims to reduce non-revenue water, fight water scarcity and improve water network performance.

🎙️ Olivier Narbey, SBDM Water Network Performance at GF Piping Systems shares why reducing non-revenue water involves much more than the "low-hanging fruit" metaphor it often gets compared with. With a wealth of real-life examples and a sound passion, he goes into the depth of the intricate problem of water network performance!

To discover the full interview, type "S3E16 - How To Save 136 Trillion Liters A Year? Solve Non-Revenue Water!"

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This is of course very subjective. But how did we go from "hardly treated" to "treated hardly" in a bit over a century?

Because it was the right thing to do, sure. But also, because of some pioneers!

I made a top 5 - but I'm also sharing the ones, that could have made it to the top, and didn't do by a nose.

So, here are our 5 most influential people, according to my book:

5️ The Man who defied a US President

4️ The Water Detective that triggered an Industry Revolution

3️ The Man that triggered desalination - and got a dismal reward

2️ The Man that made Drinking Water "Pure and Wholesome"

1️ The Technology, that's somehow in my garden

Do you have more? Come tell me on LinkedIn!

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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

What we covered:

🌱 How to green a desert, you need a magical substance: Water! 

🍏 How an Idea extensively investigated in the 1970s to bring and Iceberg in the Arab peninsula may now really become feasible 

🍏 How Antarctic Icebergs may represent a sound source of water for the ever-increasing water needs of the World 

🍎 How Water Scarcity is an intricate problem, and how it is not going to ease down with Global Warming 

🛗 How Abdulla's project interacts and leverages the other initiatives around 

🍏 How he ambitions to run the first Iceberg tow to a southern hemisphere city like Perth or Cape Town 

🍏 How the first to actually tow an iceberg to a thirsty place of the world will make history. 

🍎 How iceberg water may be a welcome replacement for desalinated water, which comes with a wealth of environmental side-effects 

🍎 How the water industry reacted to the project 

🍏 How much an actual Icerberg tow would cost, and how that translates in terms of cost per gallon/liter 

🍏 How, ecologically speaking, an Iceberg tow is a drop in the ocean with limited if any environmental impact 

🌧️ How the presence of the Iceberg along the Fujairah coast may create a positive microclimate 

🍏 How the United Nations are considering the idea as an unconventional water resource

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

➡️ Send your warm regards to Abdulla Alshehhi on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdulla2alshehi/

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National Advisor Bureau Limited carries an ambitious project for the United Arab Emirates: harvesting and towing an Iceberg to crush it for its water, and eventually green a desert on the long run.

🎙️ Abdulla Alshehhi, Managing Director at National Advisor Bureau Limited, shares the ins and outs of his iceberg project, from the rationale to the actual plan, through the obstacles to overcome and the international reaction.

To discover the full interview, type "S3E15 - The Magical Substance you need to Green a Desert actually comes from Antarctica"

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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. 

What we covered:

🌱 How Water - maybe against the odds - is a very big growth market! 

🍎 As teased in the title: the 3 main challenges US water companies face today 

🍏 How Sciens Water leverages institutional capital from many investors worldwide to trigger an impact on the Water Industry 

🍏 How public awareness shall generate a change in the approach to Water in the future 

🌱 How hypergrowth is possible in the Water Industry, yet not in a Twitter or Uber fashion 

🧮 How bottled water may well overtake utility water in the residential segment; it doesn't necessarily matter when you put it in perspective with the much larger industrial and agriculture pieces of the puzzle 

🍏 How water doesn't work in isolation: just look beyond the silo 

🍎 How the Water space very much resembles an orchestra, currently producing a cacophonous noise. 

🍏 The distributed benefits of Water, Water as an investment good, Financial and Societal benefits not being mutually exclusive... and much more!

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

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➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/3-paths-to-reach-sdg-6-by-2050-all-our-hopes-are-on-3/">https://dww.show/the-3-painful-challenges-the-us-water-sector-desperately-needs-to-overcome/

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Sciens Water is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood opportunities in the water sector that are hence undercapitalized. 

🎙️ Alexander Loucopoulos, Partner at both Sciens Capital Management and Sciens Water, shares how he aims to solve the three major challenges the US Water Market currently faces.

To discover the full interview, type "S3E14 - The 3 Painful Challenges the US Water Sector Desperately Needs to Overcome"

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With Global Warming around, the Idea of Iceberg Towing to produce Drinking Water sounded to me as - at best - opportunistic.

That's where I was wrong!

What if I told you, that out of the wide array of possible options, the one consisting of towing an iceberg from Antarctica to the aridest places of the World (Dubai, Perth, Cape Town...) may well be much less insane than what you thought?

Seriously.

The World will miss 40% of its needed Water in 2030. It's maybe time to get creative, so suspend your disbelief: Iceberg Water may REALLY be a sustainable solution!

From the Emirates to South Africa, through the USA, France, and Antarctica, I went down the Rabbit Hole.

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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.

What we covered:

🍎 How the World is late not only on achieving SDG 6 but also on aligning to start working on it 

🧮 How out of the three possible paths to solve the Global Water Funding challenge, only one is likely to happen 

🍏 The ins and outs of Getting more Funds, Adopting adapted Water Tariffs and Doing More with Less 

🌱 A breath of hope with Success Cases to replicate to set ourselves up to fulfill SDG 6 

🧮 How numbers can be tricky, considering that only the 'best pupils' usually answer surveys and share data 

🍎 How water is a political good that can serve much broader ambitions than just satisfy the thirst of people 

🍏 How Denmark can be considered the international benchmark when it comes to water preservation and management 

🍏 How Chile turned its entire Water Management on its head, thanks to political will - hence becoming another benchmark 

💥 How the current level of Funding in the Water Sector not only fails to reach the SDG6 but also won't allow maintaining current service levels 

💥 How non-utility water will surpass utility water when it comes to Funding by the end of the current SDG cycle, and how that may trigger a negative spiral, ultimately becoming an existential threat 

🍏 How the lowest hanging fruit may be cutting non-revenue water, currently representing 77 liters per day and capita in the World. 

🍏 Private Vs. Public, Decentralized Treatments, Reuse Vs. Desalination, Populism, next writing topics... and much more!

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

➡️ Send your warm regards to David Lloyd Owen on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-lloyd-owen-24675a2/

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/3-paths-to-reach-sdg-6-by-2050-all-our-hopes-are-on-3/">https://dww.show/3-paths-to-reach-sdg-6-by-2050-all-our-hopes-are-on-3/

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