(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
- 474
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
S3E14 - The 3 Painful Challenges the US Water Sector Desperately Needs to Overcome
with 🎙️ Alexander Loucopoulos, Partner at both Sciens Capital Management and Sciens Water
💧 Sciens Water is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunder…
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[Extract] Water is a Very Big Growth Market!
Sciens Water is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood opportunities in the water sector that are hence undercapitalized.
🎙️ Alexander Louco…
This Iceberg Idea, Already Crazy in 1825, May Be The Future of Water!
With Global Warming around, the Idea of Iceberg Towing to produce Drinking Water sounded to me as - at best - opportunistic.
That's where I was wrong!
What if I told you, that out of the wide array…
S3E13 - 3 Paths to Reach SDG 6 by 2050: All Our Hopes are on #3!
with 🎙️ David Lloyd Owen, Managing Director of Envisager, Columnist for Global Water Intelligence, Advisor on several boards, and author of "Global Water Funding."
💧 In his Global Water Funding book…
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[Extract] Is "Getting Started" the Best we can do on SDG 6 by 2030?
SDG 6 was supposed to be reached in 2030. It's currently progressing at 25% the speed it should if we were to reach it.
🎙️ David Lloyd Owen, Managing Director of Envisager, Columnist for Global Wate…
S3E12 - Design Thinking Will Make You Fail Faster: That's Exactly What You Need!
with 🎙️ Lea Im Obersteg, Head of Global Design Thinking @ GF Piping Systems
💧 GF Piping Systems is the leading flow solutions provider across the World.
What we covered:
🌱 How Design Thinking is a…
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[Extract] A Fool with a Tool is still a Fool!
Design Thinking is a methodology and a tool in the toolbox. But beyond the tool, it's about the execution: how you do it, how you prepare the playground for your teams to go crazy.
🎙️ Lea Im Oberst…
The 3 Most Painful Failed Mergers of VEOLIA and SUEZ!
You may be the world's two largest Water Companies, yet have quite a terrible track record when it comes to Mergers and Acquisitions. 😅
What's your favorite Fail:
- When Veolia divided its M&A money…
S3E11 - A 5% Boost on This Growth Funnel Step Easily Makes 95% More Profit. Jackpot?
with 🎙️ Gilles Toussaint, Founder @ GT Impact and Host of the "Mission First - Entrepreneurs for Future" podcast
💧 GT Impact strives to help Greentech companies to increase their revenue with efficie…
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[Extract] How to Irresistibly Improve your Trade Show's Impact?
"I find it crazy to spend 50'000 euros to go on a trade show, and not spend at least 5'000 euros in digital marketing in parallel!"
🎙️ Gilles Toussaint, Founder @ GT Impact and Host of the "Mission …
S3E10 - Choosing the Best Suited Ozone Diffusion System. What does Data Say?
with 🎙️ Jim Lauria, VP Sales and Marketing @ Mazzei Injector Company
💧 Mazzei Injector Company is a global leader in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of venturi injectors, flash reactors, a…
The Irresistible Rise of Bottled Water
How can it be, that Bottled Water will surpass Tap Water in 2034?
Believe it or not, the World will soon spend more on #BottledWater than on #UtilityWater.
But where does this come from? How did a s…
S3E9 - How to Speak Up and Empower More Young Water Professionals
with 🎙️ Hasmik Barseghyan, President of the European Youth Parliament for Water, among other strategic roles at the World Water Quality Alliance, the World Energy Council, the International Secretari…
S3E8 - How Biomimicry Leverages the Best of 3.8 Million Years of R&D
with 🎙️ Denise E Mall, Managing Director of EnsO Earth
💧 EnsO Earth focuses on the intersection of living futures, biomimicry, circularity, and ecological design thinking to go beyond sustainable to…
How to Make 12 trillion dollars? An Overlooked yet Sustainable Cheat Sheet.
How big is Sustainable Development as an opportunity?
Well according to a United Nation's study, tremendous:
- $12 trillion/year of created value (10% of the World's Economy!)
- 380 Million new Jobs
…
S3E7 - Is Software to Measure Water Quality Actually a Matter of Hardware?
with 🎙️ Meena Sankaran, CEO and Founder of KETOS.
💧 KETOS ambitions to transform how water operators measure, manage and forecast water quality and efficiency in Industrial, Agricultural, and Munici…
S3E6 - 1001 Reasons Why, the Sustainability Puzzle is a Unique Opportunity
with 🎙️ Alice Schmidt, MBA lecturer, Adviser to the European Commission, and non-profit organizations like Extinction Rebellion, Protect our Winters, and Chair of the Board of Endeva e.V.
with 🎙️ Cl…
What is Ozone Treatment? An Old Killer Song or a Powerful Killer Gas?
in this new #Water101 Segment, we go back to the roots of Ozone Treatment!
How was it discovered? By whom?
Who first domesticated it? For what?
Why is it used in Water Treatment?
How did Technologic…
S3E5 - 3 Powerful Tactics Impact Investing shall Better Use to Save the World
with 🎙️ Florian Heeb & Julian Kölbel - Researchers @ the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) in Zürich
💧 CSP is an academic research and teaching institution at the Department of …
S3E4 - Is Water from Air Actually a Scam or a Gift? You'll Be Astounded!
with 🎙️ Navkaran Singh Bagga - Founder & CEO @ Akvo Atmospheric Water Systems
💧 Akvo produces Water from Air, aka Limitless Water from Unlimited Air
What we covered:
🍏 How water may be a bit less …