(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World
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Currently in its 10th Season, the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast has already welcomed around 250 guests from Water Majors (SUEZ, Veolia, Jacobs, Xylem, Kemira, Evoqua, Aquatech, SKion Water...), Scale-Ups (Cambrian Innovation, Epic Cleantec, Gradiant, Liqtech, 374Water, Gingko Bioworks...), Start-Ups (Puraffinity, KETOS, 120Water, ZwitterCo, Membrion, Source...), Universities (Berkeley, the Columbia Water Center), Investment Funds (Sciens Water, Mazarine, Burnt Island Ventures...), Business Accelerators (Imagine H2O, Elemental...), Book Authors (Seth Siegel, David Sedlak, David Lloyd Owen...) or Market Intelligence Companies (BlueTech Research, Global Water Intelligence, World Bank, OECD, Isle Utilities...). Or simply water legends like Gary White, Mina Guli or Andrew Benedek!
On the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast, I strive to make the Water Industry easy to understand for everyone, starting with water professionals, executives, and investors. Hence, he opens the microphone to seasoned, inspirational water experts to discuss their field of excellence.
No one can claim an all-around in-depth understanding of a matter as complex as Water. But piece by piece, you can rebuild the puzzle. With curiosity, patience, and passion, Antoine Walter explores topics such as Advanced Treatment Technologies, Water-Energy Nexus (Hydrogen, Lithium...), PFAS removal, Nature-Based Solutions, Wastewater Reuse, Distributed Water Treatments, Water Finance, and Water Entrepreneurship.
I actually firmly believe that regular listeners of the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast may, in the end, claim a "Water MBA!"
A particular field of interest is how innovation forms, grows and gets widely adopted in a complex and conservative field like the Water Industry. This may be one of the keys to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal n°6 - #SDG6.
Oh, and in short, about me: I'm a water engineer turned avid student of the water business, market, finance, and tech. I'm married, a happy father of three, and I'm French (nobody's perfect 😅).
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 476
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
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[Extract] "Water is not Energy or Agriculture: it's All of that!" - Damian Georgino - Womble Bond Dickinson
Damian Georgino is Partner at Womble Bond Dickinson. Womble Bond Dickinson is a leading law firm that provides support to organizations operating within the fast-moving, challenging, and dynamic ener…
S8E4 - Where's Practical Climate Data when you Desperately Need It?
with 🎙️ Sarah Kapnick, Chief Scientist at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
💧 The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) aims to enrich life through science. From the s…
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[Extract] "Climate Issues aren't decades off from now..." - Sarah Kapnick - National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Sarah Kapnick is Chief Scientist at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. The US NOAA aims to enrich life through science. From the sun's surface to the ocean's depths, the Agency works …
BREAKING NEWS - Will Xylem succeed with Evoqua where Veolia and Siemens failed?
Xylem and Evoqua just announced their merger. This will create the second-largest water company in the World with a $7 Bn turnover!
Yet, Evoqua has quite a history in M&A moves, having successively …
The 4 Horsemen of America's Water Apocalypse
"Water Apocalypse" may come in as an exaggerated stretch; I'm sorry. Yet if you want a number to understand the magnitude of what we're discussing here: fixing America's water challenges is estimated…
S8E3 - Can Private Capital Change the World of Water for the Better?
with 🎙️ Henry Cordes, Principal at Sciens Water
💧 Sciens is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood water sector opportunities that are underc…
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[Extract] "People don't even know where their Water Asset is" - Henry Cordes - Sciens Water
Henry Cordes is Principal at Sciens Water. Sciens is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood water sector opportunities that are undercapitaliz…
S8E2 - What do you Need to Know to Invest Wisely in Water Technologies?
with 🎙️ Meshal Alduraywish, Vice President at Sciens Capital Management
💧 Sciens is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood water sector oppo…
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[Extract] "You would think no one still does that, and yet..." - Meshal Alduraywish - Sciens Water
Seeing the Sharks or the Dragons in Shark Tank or Dragon Den decide on which company to invest just out of gut feeling and business intuition is fascinating. Indeed, it's thus fascinating that the sh…
2023 Insider Info: Did Pinterest Actually Expose the Future of Water?
Pinterest has a superpower: it can read its users' project boards and hence... predict the future! Why so? Simply because 400 million people use the platform as a mood board to prepare for their upco…
What's the Value of your Poop? - TEDx Special
with 🎙️ Antoine Walter
💧 Antoine Walter studied and graduated in Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, but his actual knowledge comes from what he's seen in the trenches of the Water World.
✈️ …
S8E1 - Are Amazon Water Filters the Best Way to Quench our Thirst?
with 🎙️ Upmanu Lall - Director of the Columbia Water Center
💧 The Columbia Water Center aims to creatively tackle water challenges of a rapidly changing world where water and climate interact with …
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[Extract] "It's happening in various places - we just don't realize it yet!" - Upmanu Lall - Columbia Water Center
Upmanu Lal is the Director of the Columbia Water Center at Columbia University in New York. The Columbia Water Center is on a mission to creatively tackle the water challenges of a rapidly changing w…
S7E20 - The Climate Change Adaptation Opportunities You Don't Want To Miss Out
with 🎙️ Lauren Enright - Founder of Axiom Climate LLC
with 🎙️ Michael Stanley Gallisdorfer - Water Sustainability Strategist
💧 Lauren, Michael, and Indrani Pal will lead a Session Day at the upcomi…
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[Extract] "Put your Money where Water will be in the right amount at the right time!" - Lauren Enright - Michael Stanley Gallisdorfer
Lauren Enright is the Founder of Axiom Climate, and Michael Stanley Gallisdorfer is a Water Sustainability Strategist you've already heard on that microphone by the excellent Episode 17 of Season 2. …
S7E19 - 800 M&A Moves in a Decade, Yet You’ve Never Heard of this Water Utility!
with 🎙️ Josiah Cox, founder and president of Central States Water Resources
💧 Central States Water Resources transforms how water utilities work by acquiring small, often non-compliant systems and t…
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[Extract] "There's a market niche that no-one want's to do!" - Josiah Cox - Central States Water Resources
Josiah Cox is the founder and president of Central States Water Resources. Central States Water Resources transforms how water utilities work by acquiring small, often non-compliant systems and then …
S7E18 - How to Actively Invest Philanthropy and Save the (Water) World?
with 🎙️ Sean Davis, founder and managing director of Merton Capital Partners, adjunct professor at the Palm Beach Atlantic University, and Author of "Solving the Giving Pledge Bottleneck."
💧 Merton …
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[Extract] "It's harder to Give Away Money than it was to Make the Money!" - Sean Davis - Merton Capital Partners
Sean Davis is the founder and managing director of Merton Capital Partners, an adjunct professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University, and the Author of "Solving the Giving Pledge Bottleneck." Merton Ca…
S7E17 - How does Maslow explain a lot of America's Broken Water Economics?
with 🎙️ Tom Rooney - Chairman and Operating Partner at Sciens Water
💧 Sciens is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood water sector opportuni…