(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
S4E3 - Central Water Management Networks won't Handle 2050. Time for an Epic Move?
with 🎙️ Aaron Tartakovsky, CEO and Co-Founder of Epic Cleantec
💧 Epic Cleantec offers end-to-end service for the design, engineering, permitting, installation, and ongoing operations of onsite wat…
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[Extract] We have a Historical Chance to Rethink Water Management!
Aaron Tartakovsky guides us through the challenges and opportunities around Water Management in Cities - from raving urbanization to outlasting our water networks through circular resource loops and …
S4E2 - Solid, Liquid, Gas, And... A Fourth Phase of Water?!
with 🎙️ Gerald Pollack, Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, Founding Editor-in-Chief of the WATER research journal, Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science, a…
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[Extract] A New Phase of Water with... a Negative Charge!
Gerald Pollack explores the fundamentals of Water for a couple of decades. In 2013 he published "the Fourth Phase of Water, Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Gas". Since then, he continued working on the mat…
BREAKING NEWS: Is the VEOLIA/SUEZ Merger at Risk?
SUEZ and VEOLIA shall merge by the end of this year (at least partially), after a long battle... that's apparently still not over!
Let's review the previous steps. VEOLIA acquired 29.9% of SUEZ from…
S4E1 - How to treat PFAS out of Water and protect our Health, Economy and Biodiversity
with 🎙️ Henrik Hagemann is the CEO and Co-Founder of Puraffinity.
💧 Puraffinity is a GreenTech Company that designs smart materials for environmental applications.
Their cutting-edge material des…
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[Extract] "Imagine how cool it would be if we could have non-virgin PFAS?"
Puraffinity takes on the PFAS Challenge, with sound dedication, the best of GreenTech and some of the best brains there is in this industry. Not only does their peptide manage to remove PFAS, but it'…
Is There a Hidden Power in the Most Universal Good on Earth?
You probably all know it as a fact: there are THREE phases of Water. But what if we challenged this?
Gerald Pollack and his research team are formal: there is, indeed a Fourth Phase of Water!
So, …
S3E20 - Do Nature-Based Solutions Work? These New Case Studies Will Verify It!
with 🎙️ Silvana Di Sabatino, Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Bologna, and coordinator of the OPERANDUM project.
💧 The OPERANDUM Project aims at delivering the tools and metho…
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[Extract] How to Prove that Nature Based Solutions Work?
The H2020 OPERANDUM project aims to deliver the tools and methods for the validation of Nature-Based Solutions. This shall enhance resilience in European rural and natural territories by reducing hyd…
S3E19 - Can Nature-Based Solutions Better Protect Cities from Soaring Environmental Risks?
with 🎙️ Marc Barra, Urban Ecologist specializing in nature-based solutions at Paris' Agency for Biodiversity, in charge of the H2020 REGREEN project.
💧 The REGREEN Project promotes urban livabilit…
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[Extract] Nature-Based Solutions to Mitigate Climate Change
The H2020 REGREEN project aims to promote urban livability thanks to blue-green nature-based solutions. It thus accelerates the transition towards healthy, green and equitable cities!
🎙️ Marc Barra …
S3E18 - How to Manage Flooding and Improve Water Quality without Steel, Concrete and Hard Engineering
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 …
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[Extract] Sustainable Drainage to Manage Flooding
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…
Water is Too Cheap! Here's Why Raising the Price NOW will make it Affordable.
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…
S3E17 - A Climate Modeller's Truth on the Controversial Project of Iceberg Harvesting
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-pro…
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[Extract] The Science behind Iceberg Harvesting
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.
🎙️ …
S3E16 - How To Save 126 Trillion Liters A Year? Solve Non-Revenue Water!
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 cov…
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[Extract] Facts and Myths about Non-Revenue Water
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…
The 5 Most Influential People in the Water Industry over the Past 150 Years
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…