The Stream (with Will & Tom)

n 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, Sanmit Ahuja, Founder and CEO of Economic Impact Initiative, joins Will & Tom to chat about innovative water finance and business models.

Sanmit talks about not just solving but delivering water solutions, the pitfuls of green exaggerations and getting the boardroom onside when it comes to changing a company's 'green' DNA.

Plus, hear about: 

• The challenges of raising venture capital 
• Having faith in humanity 
• Asking the question; if we can get a vaccine out in nine months, why can't we accelerate climate change solutions? 
• The 2050 target makers kicking the can down the road
• Finding the right water technology to solve the global challenges 
• And the challenge of everyone wanting to be a unicorn 

This was a great episode to record, and an even better conversation, 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.

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, Pavel Policar, President of VAK HB, joins Will and Tom to talk about the work he has done turning around the fortunes of a municipality in the Czech Republic and how he got his nickname, the 'water butcher'!

Plus, hear about:
- Having a vision and why it is so important when it comes to transformation at a company- - - - Reducing water losses and being efficient 
- Changing culture and the value in it
- Managing a hybrid profit model and why it has made the difference 
- And the challenges and benefits of being involved in so many industries.

And much, much 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.

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. 

But that's not all... For the first time, Wil and Tom record an episode in person! 

This week, Mark Barnett, President and CEO of the National Water Commission of Jamaica, joins Will and Tom to talk about driving down Jamaica's water loss and the importance of Non-Revenue Water (NRW).

Plus hear about:
- What Mark thought about this year's WEX conference 
- What the National Water Commission has been up to in renewable energy
- Mark's integrated strategy for water and energy 
- The only water recharge programme in the Carribian up to five million gallon system
- And Will &Tom try to set up a 'work trip' to join Mark in Jamaica... What could go wrong?

And much 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.

It's the season finale and joining Will and Tom this week is  Dr Patrick Moriarty, CEO of think-tank IRC.

A civil engineer and expert in water resource management, Patrick has over 20 years experience of in a broad range of issues around water, and its use in improving human wellbeing.

In our conversation, Patrick gives an honest and much-needed commentary on the reality of meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, including access to all water and sanitation.

Plus:
- Patrick talks about one of the reasons he believes we are failing to meet the SDGs is due to the apathy toward water, particularly from a governments point of view
- We discuss the need for partnerships and collective action, including an alliance with Water for People with a 2030 strategy
- And we chat about the role of digital, in which Patrick describes the “data deserts” where there are gaps not only in water availability and assets but also in the skills needed to create actional insights from data.

And much, much 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.

This week, Carolina Garcia Arbelaez, Global Sustainability and Innovation Director at Anheuser-Busch InBev, joins Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg to talk about:

- Her origin story from Colombia, with a legal background but moving into a position at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
- Having a “eureka moment”, looking from the outside in on multinationals and realising that the private sector has the power to drive change, at scale
- The development of the 100+ Accelerator, now in partnership with Unilever, the Coca-Cola Company and Colgate Palmolive, and the way they’re seeing this as collaboration over competition.
- An innovation focus on single plastics, with the Corona Plastic Free Challenge
- And finally, we address the elephant in the room: biodiversity loss and the role of multinationals.

And much much 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.

This week, Avent Bezuidenhoudt, Head of investment at Earth Capital joins Will and Tom to talk about being new to the world of water, the ‘Cinderella, unloved industry’, and her origins in Durban. 

Plus listen to discussions on: 
- Avent's 25 years of experience in investing, portfolio management and corporate finance advisory
- The reality of water scarcity in Cape Town after its ‘Day Zero’ incident 
- Opportunities in innovations addressing water demand at the source. 
- Earth Capital’s offering of the Earth Dividend, an in-house developed proprietary tool that the fund uses as part of its due diligence when evaluating potential companies to invest in
- The company's “sustainability fitness check” that rates companies in 5 areas: natural resources, ecosystem services, pollution, social & economic, and also society & governance.

Plus much, much 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.

This week, Bessie Schwarz, Co-founder & CEO, Cloud to Street, joins Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg to talk about democratising real-time flooding data and designing products for low and middle-income countries and communities. 

Plus, hear about

• A case in the Republic of Congo, and how the government used the tracking system to identify 7000 refugees at risk from flooding, saving lives and securing millions in emergency aid
• A blended finance approach, and why they partner with smaller, boutique funds focused more on impact but also larger equity companies looking for scale and returns
• To date, Cloud to Street is working with nearly 170 countries, helping to monitor over 120 million people.

And much, much 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.

This week, Professor Newsha Ajami, chief development officer for research, Berkeley Lab's EESA, joins Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg to talk about decentralised solutions and what does the utility of the future look like?

Plus we talk about: 

- Professor Ajami's origin story, in Iran, providing decision support for infrastructure such as dams
- Moving to North America and taking what she describes as a “life-changing” water policy class
- The policy impact on the energy market and whether the water market could follow; a city-wide mandate in San Francisco on water management and the need for new business models to shake up the status quo. 

And we tackle the big question... Is World Water Day a fun day?

Professor Ajami is a leading expert in smart cities, resilient infrastructure, sustainable water resource management, the water-energy-food nexus and many other topics.

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.

This week, Nate Allen, the executive director of WaterStart, joins Will and Tom to talk about how, to date, the non-profit company has helped to facilitate 42 pilot projects, evaluate 400 technologies and helped raise total funding of $3.2 million dollars.

Plus, listen to Nate talk about: 

• How the organisation operates with what it calls “first adopters” – helping to provide channels for innovation for various stakeholders, from technology companies to management agencies and policymakers
• Nate gives his honest views on the increasing interest from the investment community and beyond in ESG – environmental, social and governance and why it’s the right time for water
• And Nate talks about how Nevada is a forward-thinking state when it comes to water, having outlawed turf and with changes afoot on cooling towers and why this crosses the water-energy nexus.

Plus much, much 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.

This week Ari Raivetz, chairman and CEO of Transcend, joins Will and Tom to talk about his origin story and how it threw him into the world of water. 

Listen to Ari talk about: 

• His background in investment, helping oil & gas companies to raise capital and then the subsequent ecological guilt that he swore to payback
• Taking up the role as CEO of Organica in Hungary, a company developing what can only be called beautiful wastewater treatment plants 
• The genesis of Transcend and how he started to automate the process using software design
• Building a company at the start of the covid pandemic, lessons he learned but also the advantages of hiring remotely.

Plus, Ari gives an honest view of engineering consultants in the role of innovation adoption – ultimately a role that he is trying to partner with, as well as potentially disrupt.

And much much 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.