The Stream (with Will & Tom)

This week, Dr Angela MacOscar, Head of Innovation at Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) joins Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg to talk about the Innovation Festival, her inspiration on starting a movement and utility culture change.

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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, Sera Young, Associate Professor, Anthropology & Global Health, Northwestern University joins Will Sarni & Tom Freyberg to talk about the development of the HWISE scales: The why, the who, the what and the where. 

Sera also sheds light on "honey, do I have a solution for you", and tells us how she went knocking at the door of water multinationals and a partnership with Unilever, including ambitions for India and data.

Plus much, much more!  

🔔 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, Frantz Beznik, Senior Director for Sustainable Innovation, Procter & Gamble and founder of the 50L Home Coalition, joins Will and Tom to talk about Frantz's inspiration behind the 50L Home Coalition after he witnessed Day Zero in Cape Town. 

Frantz also gives an insight into his philosophy of abundance, with his goal of making 50 litres feel like 500, the true impact of reducing water use can have and how he wants to make the sustainable, irresistible. 

Plus, Will and Tom find out how Frantz drummed up the support of key players, such as the World Economic Forum, in order to get the attention of policymakers, as well as discussing the next stages to create pilot projects, including new builds and retrofitting to existing houses to create the 50 litre home. 

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.

We're back! 

In this week’s episode, Will and Tom are joined by Ari Kaufman, Founder & CEO of Spout, who talks about his serial entrepreneur’s background of 25 years and why he decided to change track...

Kaufman discusses his experience in the 10.10.10 programme – 10 CEOS facing 10 wicked problems to come up with a market solution in 10 days and why he decided to tackle the lead contamination challenge after hearing about the potential impact on children’s IQ. 

Ari also talks about why getting fired was the best thing to happen to him and how an inscription on a bullet-shaped pen about owning your mistakes has become a personal mantra he now lives by. 

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.

In this week’s episode Madeleine Bell,  Head of Strategy and special projects at Desolenator, joins Will Sarni & Tom Freyberg to talk about what drew her to a water start-up and the role of social entrepreneurship. 

Plus, learn why Madeleine believes there is a need to bring in outsiders, a shared mission and vision with brewery giant Carlsberg, and Madeleine provides an update on a solar technology project that will provide water to 4,000 people in the water-stressed  West Bengal, India.

Madeleine also shares her favourite water facts with us, including on rocket launches, and even flips the script on the hosts!

🔔 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, Tom Higley, serial entrepreneur and Founder & CEO of X Genesis, joins Will Sarni & Tom Freyberg to talk about why entrepreneurs are the key to solving wicked water problems. 

Plus, Tom explains the growing importance of catalytic communities and why Tom believes wicked problems can help entrepreneurs find the sweet spot between what they love, what they’re good at, what they can be paid for and what the world needs.

 And much more!

Tom Higley is a musician and former lawyer, the Denver-based entrepreneur who has founded six tech start-ups over the last two decades, including Service Metrics.

🔔 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, Alex Crowell, managing director of PureTerra Ventures, joins Will and Tom to talk about the company’s investment team that created a complete dossier on more than 1000 water technology companies globally.

Plus, Alex tells us why he's concerned about the current lack of investment in water and why he thinks a grand experiment is needed to force people to value water. 

Alex also gives us his views on acquisitions and exits in the global water space, including the recent $1 billion digital purchase and a 5 million euro investment into PureTerra from entrepreneur Shawn Harris plus much, much more!

We hope you enjoy the episode.

PureTerra Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in disruptive water technologies with a positive social impact. 

🔔 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, Eleanor Allen, CEO of the charity Water for People, joins Will Sarni & Tom Freyberg to talk about her ultra-cycling bug and latest adventure, Race Across the West, an epic 930-mile journey across desert and mountains in four days to raise awareness on the need for clean water. 

Plus, Eleanor gives us her origin story from working as an environmental consultant to heading up the global non-profit organisation, the importance of capacity building to help meet SDG 6, and how Water for People has mastered storytelling to drive awareness, plus much much more!

We hope you enjoy the episode.

Water for People is a charity that has helped millions of people across nine countries get access to clean water.

🔔 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, Mark Kaney, the director of asset management at Binnies, joins Will & Tom to talk about his journey as a semi-professional musician and how he reminisces over the human connections from live music experiences. 

Plus, listen as they discuss the good old fashioned British pub as the centre of communities and how Mark actually digitally twinned a pub for his team to meet and mingle online.

Mark, Will and Tom cut through the Digital Twin hype and talk about the lessons learned from other industries when it comes to mitigating risk, and drawing a connection to Formula 1. 

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 week’s episode, Fiona Regan, a professor in chemistry at Dublin City University and director of the DCU Water Institute, joins Will & Tom to talk about how Fiona fell in love with water, found her purpose and wants to bring others on her journey.


Plus, learn why fishermen & paddleboarders are key to the citizen science movement, the importance of not just more data on water quality, but actionable data, and how scaling up of a water transfer office – lessons learned so far and the need to “get out of the lab”.

We hope you enjoy the episode!

The DCU Water Institute (WI) is a cross-faculty initiative of research and education on water.

🔔 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.