with 🎙️ James Murray, MGSDP Manager at the Glasgow City Council  

💧 the Metropolitan Glasgow Strategic Drainage Partnership (MGSDP) thinks about and manages rainfall to end uncontrolled flooding and improve water quality.

What we covered:

🍏 How the Glasgow Region built upon the 2002 flood to turn its water management approach on its head 

🍏 How they decided to leverage nature-based solutions and sustainable urban drainage systems

🌱 How you can't put nature in a box, and what that implies when it comes to NBS 

🍎  The perks and pitfalls of Blue-Green approaches 

🧮  How confusing it can be to understand the meaning behind a return period of "once in a century"

🌦️ How climate change affects the frequency and intensity of meteorological events

🔍 How Nature-Based Solutions come with a wealth of welcome side effects: improving mental health, fostering biodiversity, limiting urban heat, or enhancing the air quality 

🍏 How a smart approach enhances the overall system by feeding it the right data

🍎 How Sustainable Drainage can create tensions over land use, and what to do to overcome those

🍏 Glasgow's long ball game, adapting regulations, COP 26, public education... and much more!

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

➡️ Find the summary of this trilogy, around the #UnitedNations #Innovate4Cities Conference here: https://dww.show/innovate4cities/

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-to-manage-flooding-and-improve-water-quality-without-steel-concrete-and-hard-engineering/">https://dww.show/how-to-manage-flooding-and-improve-water-quality-without-steel-concrete-and-hard-engineering/

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The Metropolitan Glasgow Strategic Drainage Partnership manages rainfall to end uncontrolled flooding and improve water quality by leveraging nature-based solutions

🎙️ James Murray, MGSDP Manager at the Glasgow City Council shares how the Glasgow Region managed the aftermath of the 2002 flood to innovate in the approach to water, leverage nature-based solutions, build blue-green infrastructure and involve everybody

To discover the full interview, type "S3E18 - How to Manage Flooding and Improve Water Quality without Steel, Concrete and Hard Engineering"

You can also find James' interview on the (don't) Waste Water website: https://dww.show/how-to-manage-flooding-and-improve-water-quality-without-steel-concrete-and-hard-engineering/">https://dww.show/how-to-manage-flooding-and-improve-water-quality-without-steel-concrete-and-hard-engineering/

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You read it right: in order to be affordable, water needs to be more expensive. Counter-intuitive, right?

Yet, like it or not, the safe supply of drinking water at our tap is the most affordable way to solve our need for Water. And that comes with some costs, that shall be covered through Water Tariffs... in order to push out of business "Water Dealers" of all kinds!

In this Bonus Episode, we're covering:

🍏 Water Tariffs around the World

🍏 Understanding Water's Cost

🍏 Who shall Pay for Water?

🍏 Objection 1: How Dare you Set a Price on Water?

🍏 Objection 2: What about Affordability?

🍏 Why Water Tariffs shall be Higher

🍏 A Path for (affordable) #WaterForAll

🍏 How is Water Financed, if not through Tariffs?

🍏 The Problem with Taxes and Transfers

🍏 The Welcome Side Effects of Water Tariffs

🍏 Why Ireland may be wrong

Wanna join the discussion? Come tell me on LinkedIn!

Wanna discuss it even more? Join our next live on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPZudJFMCnM&t=0s

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with 🎙️ Alan Condron, Scientific Researcher and Climate Modeller at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 

💧 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is the world's leading, independent non-profit organization dedicated to ocean research, exploration, and education.

What we covered:

🍏 How Iceberg drift in oceans can be modeled and what can be learned from it 

🍏 How large an Iceberg shall be upon arrival in Cape Town, to cover 20% of the city's water needs 

🧮  How that Iceberg would behave all along a towing route that would lead it from Antarctica to South Africa 

🍎 How challenging it would be, to harvest the Iceberg's water upon arrival 

🔍 The ecological impacts of an Iceberg tow 

🍎 The bigger picture around Day Zero and Water Scarcity in arid places in the world, like Cape Town 

🔍 How the ecological impacts of a one-time tow are probably negligible while the consequences of a repeated commercial-scale activity would have to be studied 

🍏 How a successful proof of concept would enable verifying theory and possibly build the suited infrastructure to extract the best out of the Iceberg. 

🍎 How an Iceberg tow to Dubai is a different game than a southern hemisphere destination 

🍏 The financial equation of an Iceberg towing project, the scientific approach that would enable us to learn from the first tow, Nick Sloane's project... 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/a-climate-modellers-truth-on-the-controversial-project-of-iceberg-harvesting/">https://dww.show/a-climate-modellers-truth-on-the-controversial-project-of-iceberg-harvesting/

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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"

You can also find Alan's interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/a-climate-modellers-truth-on-the-controversial-project-of-iceberg-harvesting/(opens in a new tab)">https://dww.show/a-climate-modellers-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 🔥 

➡️ Send your warm regards to Olivier Narbey on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivier-narbey-b6392610/

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-to-save-136-trillion-liters-a-year-solve-non-revenue-water/">https://dww.show/how-to-save-136-trillion-liters-a-year-solve-non-revenue-water/

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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!"

You can also find Olivier's interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/how-to-save-136-trillion-liters-a-year-solve-non-revenue-water/(opens in a new tab)">https://dww.show/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/

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/the-magical-substance-you-need-to-green-a-desert-actually-comes-from-antarctica/">https://dww.show/the-magical-substance-you-need-to-green-a-desert-actually-comes-from-antarctica/

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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"

You can also find Abdulla's interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/the-magical-substance-you-need-to-green-a-desert-actually-comes-from-antarctica/(opens in a new tab)">https://dww.show/the-magical-substance-you-need-to-green-a-desert-actually-comes-from-antarctica/

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