The Stream (with Will & Tom)

This week on #TheStream, Will and Tom are joined by Manuela Zoninsine, CEO & Founder of Kadeya, a closed-loop water vending service powered by digitally-connected reusable water bottles and mini bottling stations. 

Find out about Manuela’s early experience as a journalist, being based in China ahead of the Olympic Games and why this helped to harness her critical thinking.

Plus: 

Manuela talks about the need to rethink hydration, particularly in workplaces around the world and the reason to couple this with increased data

The need to develop a business model to eliminate single-use plastics

 And finally, Manuela talks about investment, how the multinationals are viewing potential disruption to their market and also scaling.

And much, much more! We hope you enjoy the episode. 

 Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes. 

We’re delighted you can join us on this voyage of discovery, as we journey down The Stream.

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And our charity partner, Frank Water.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley  Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

This week, John Matthews, Executive Director at Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA), joins Will Sarni & Tom Freyberg to #TheStream to talk about his origin story as a butterfly biologist, work with the WWF and a life-changing trip to India where he was given a sobering case on the spiritual value of water.

Plus: 

• John discusses the founding of AGWA and what water resilience really means – way beyond the hard engineering
• The upcoming UN Water Week in New York
• How to get a whisky sponsorship for the podcast.

And, the three of them talk about popular narratives, such as: “climate change is the shark and water is the teeth.” However, as you’ll hear from John, this is a huge oversimplification, and he provides a suggested alternative!

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes. 

We’re delighted you can join us on this voyage of discovery, as we journey down The Stream.

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And our charity partner, Frank Water.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley  Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

In this week’s episode, Will and Tom were delighted to be joined by Brendan Tierney, Managing Director and Head of Global Water Practice at Raymond James.

He talks about his origin story: being attracted to Wall Street as an investment banker, before being made redundant and eventually joining Raymond James in 2016 to build out the water portfolio. 

Plus, Brendan talks about:

• The areas where he sees huge potential for further market activity, including digitalisation of water and water quality, and notable PFAS treatment, otherwise known as forever chemicals
• The recent gargantuan, $7.5 billion merger between the two US water giants – Xylem and Evoqua
•  And what this could mean for the industry following integration.

And much, much more!

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes. 

We’re delighted you can join us on this voyage of discovery, as we journey down The Stream.

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And our charity partner, Frank Water.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley  Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

This week, Will and Tom, are delighted to be joined by Meena Sankaran, Founder & CEO Ketos, a vertically integrated water quality and monitoring platform. 

Meena talks about the importance of crafting a culture in this episode and the importance of maintaining the attitude of a start-up. 

Plus hear about:

• Meena's journey from humble beginnings in India where she learned the value of water before taking a one-way flight to the US to move up the ranks as an engineer
• The challenges of starting her own business that Meena had to overcome battling against naysayers and critics
• The task of raising $40 million in capital investment but how the pure play water investors initially closed the door, forcing her to look to impact and climate-tech investors
• Meena talks openly about investment cycles and how the 18-24 months between investment rounds are not necessarily aligned with the buying cycles of the utility market
• And how Meena purposefully built the strategy of the digital company to work across the utility, industry and agricultural sectors.

It was an absolute joy to have Meena on the podcast, a true passionate visionary who has built a company and culture that crosses industries and the water-energy-food nexus.

We know you will enjoy this episode!

Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes. 

We’re delighted you can join us on this voyage of discovery, as we journey down The Stream.

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And our charity partner, Frank Water.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley  Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

This week, Will and Tom were delighted to be joined by Karina Peña, Co-founder & CEO of Dutch start-up, Field Factors.

Karina talks about her origin story, moving from the Dominican Republic to being attracted to the Netherlands, with a background as an architect evolving into an urban water entrepreneur.

Hear about how:

• At Field Factors Karina is rethinking rainwater harvesting, at scale, helping to provide water resources closer to where they are needed
• Karina talks about the Dutch city of Rotterdam, renowned globally as “Resilient Rotterdam” for its progressive approach and policies towards urban water resilience
• Karina talks about her entrepreneurial journey and the importance of the co-founder dynamic, often with pairings between the “why” and the “what” people providing a solid match.

Plus, Karina talks about evolving financially, from bootstrapping the organisation to grow a team of 10 people to opening the door to VC financing to grow further. 

And much, much more!

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes. 

We’re delighted you can join us on this voyage of discovery, as we journey down The Stream.

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And our charity partner, Frank Water.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley  Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

Episode four of the Stream is now live! 

This week Will and Tom are delighted to be joined by one and only Joel Makower, chairman and founder of GreenBiz Group.

Joel has been called the “guru of green business practices” by the Associated Press and has spent over 3 decades writing, speaking, advising and influencing companies to align pressing environmental and social issues with business success.

Listen to them chat about:

• Joel's origin story and journey to setting up GreenBiz Group, a media and events company focusing on the intersection of business, technology and sustainability
• The value of content in a world of greenwashing, and questions the expression “Content is King”, rephrasing it as “Context is King” as content has infact become ubiquitous
• How Joel has always been a guiding light for many in the world of sustainability, keeping track of the trends and often cutting through the PR, green hype often spouted out by corporations over the years

And finally looking at what Joel has achieved as an entrepreneur, journalist, events organiser, author, speaker and podcaster has been, and will continue to be a north star for me in the world of water.

Trust us, this is a great episode!

We hope you enjoy!

Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes. 

We’re delighted you can join us on this voyage of discovery, as we journey down The Stream.

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And our charity partner, Frank Water.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley  Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

This week, Melissa Meeker, CEO of The Water Tower, joins Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg to talk about her 25 years of experience in water resources management.

Plus hear about:
How Mellissa previously served as the CEO of The Water Research Foundation, helping it to merge with two other associations, as well as serving as the executive director of the South Florida Water Management District

The latest updates on The Water Tower and the “living laboratory”

How Melissa's journey led her to become the CEO to help establish and open The Water Tower

The potential of franchising the model from Gwinett County across North America but also international partnerships in Spain and even Australia

The coming “silver tsunami” – a term used to describe the potential skills gap, resulting from highly experienced water operators and engineers that are due to retire soon.

And Will and Tom finish by asking Melissa if she could go back in time and give her 17-year-old self advice, what would it be? Thankfully, she didn’t say it would be to decline an invitation to be on this podcast!

And much, much more! We hope you enjoy the episode!

Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

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🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes. 

We’re delighted you can join us on this voyage of discovery, as we journey down The Stream.

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And our charity partner, Frank Water.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley  Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

This week on #TheStream, Will and Tom are joined by the incredible Sunny Wang, Water Resources Manager at City of Santa Monica. 

Sunny talks about his journey from being a private consultant, working in the UK and being admittedly amused by the imperial-metric measurement mix, to taking up the role in Santa Monica.

Since then he’s been involved in one of the most progressive projects, with the city set out to be “water self-sufficient” by 2023 using the One Water approach. 

Plus hear about:

• The strategy to reduce the reliance on external water supplies, due to the increased combined threat of natural disasters and climate change
• The need to communicate complex water treatment developments to the public, and how he has learned to articulate the water sector to his six-year-old back home!
• Sunny's role as an adjunct facility at the University of Southern California, teaching civil and environmental engineering

And listen to why Sunny says when it comes to water infrastructure, you can’t afford to get it wrong... 

All this and more! 

We hope you enjoy the episode! 

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes. 

We’re delighted you can join us on this voyage of discovery, as we journey down The Stream.

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And our charity partner, Frank Water.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley  Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

We are back!

And kicking off Season Five of The Stream, Will and Tom are joined by Victoria Edwards, Founder & CEO of Fido Tech.

In the next 40 minutes, hear about how Victoria made an instant splash in the water sector and her origins starting out on local radio.

Plus, find out:

- Why Victoria thinks everyone in the water sector should be fired?!
- How we can stop 40% of our water from being lost in leaks
- Why the only way forward is by breaking down silos and working together
- How Victoria believes the sector has become complacent and only motivated by fear
- Why it is important for water to no longer be viewed as a safe industry and big corporations need to be allowed to fail in order to progress
- 'Day Zero' is happening and sooner than we think
- The importance of gamification to create community agency.
- Victoria also shares the one piece of advice she would give her 17-year-old self...

And so much more - we hope you enjoy the episode!
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Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes. 

We’re delighted you can join us on this voyage of discovery, as we journey down The Stream.

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And our charity partner, Frank Water.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley  Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

In this special mini-season, before we kick off season 5, Will and Tom pack their bags and head to WEX Global 2022 in Valencia to chat with four special guests.  

This week is the final episode in this mini-series and Will & Tom are joined by the fantastic Mohsen Mortada of IBI Group.

Mortada talks about implementing the 'one water' approach at the Californian metropolitan water district, an over 100-year-old organisation that Mortada is looking to prepare for the next century. 

Plus hear about: 

• Changing workforce dynamics, the effects of covid and evolving to new workplaces
• Is it sexier to be an investment banker or a bitcoin trader?
• The best ways to attract young talent using sustainability
• Changing the image of the utility sector and the importance of developing their communications
• And his take on people choosing not to be informed about climate change. 

Plus, Mortada opens up about having a heated debate with his next-door neighbour about using recycled water and his own civil disobedience...

You don't want to miss this one! 

We hope you enjoy it! 

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes. 

We’re delighted you can join us on this voyage of discovery, as we journey down The Stream.

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And our charity partner, Frank Water.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley  Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.