First let’s travel to Kolding, a bustling harbor town in southeast Denmark, where wastewater utility BlueKolding is a true pioneer of a circular economy.  Meet Per Holm, CEO and Tue Knudsen, Head of Communications for BlueKolding, two passionate advocates for building a sustainable economy.     Then, let’s travel to the heart of Malaysia’s finance and business district to visit the Tun Razak Exchange in Kuala Lumpur.  Discover how this ambitious project aims to radically reduce its carbon emissions and landfill waste, with Dato’ Azmar Talib, CEO of Tun Razak Exchange City.  Want to learn more about our contribution to 11 SDGs: https://bit.ly/3f54imv     Check out our social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/VeoliaWaterTech), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/veolia-water-technologies/posts/?feedView=all&viewAsMember=true)     Podcast Producer: tootakpro.fr (http://tootakpro.fr/) / Pierre Denis  Audio director: Katia Grivot  Audio reporter: Patrick Smith  Voice off: Zoe Brown   Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Let’s first go to Hamilton Harbor on Lake Ontario and find out more about Randle Reef, Canada's largest sediment remediation project in the Great Lakes. Hear from Roger Santiago, Head of the Sediment Remediation Unit focused on Great Lakes Areas of Concern at Environment and Climate Change Canada and his colleague Dave Lawrence, Senior Project Manager at Public Services and Procurement Canada, who explain to us what the engineered containment facility is and how it is removing contaminants from the soil. Next, we join Dr. Warren Cairns an Analytical Chemist at CNR-ISP who is exploring the Antarctic, where cutting-edge science is being used to rediscover our past and the impact our actions have had on the environment on an even greater scale.   Watch the full video of UNDP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a35ffqcF_ZA Want to learn more about our contribution to 11 SDGs: https://bit.ly/3f54imv Check out our social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/VeoliaWaterTech), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/veolia-water-technologies/posts/?feedView=all&viewAsMember=true)   Podcast Producer: tootakpro.fr (http://tootakpro.fr/) / Pierre Denis Audio director: Katia Grivot Audio reporter: Patrick Smith Voice off : Zoe Brown Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

In this episode - SDG 13: Climate change - Visit the Assiut Supercritical Power Plant in Egypt and discover one of today's most modern and efficient systems in generating electricity while meeting environmental standards with Eng. Emad Gamal Ragheb, Project Manager of Upper-Egypt Electricity production Company and Ahmed Kaml, Project Manager for Veolia Water Technologies Egypt.  Thanks Eng. Emal Gamad Ragheb, Project Manager of the Assiut Supercritical Power Plant and Ahmed Kamal, Project Manager at VWT Middle East Egypt for their testimonies.  Want to learn more about our contribution to 11 SDGs: https://bit.ly/3f54imv  Check out our social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/VeoliaWaterTech), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/veolia-water-technologies/posts/?feedView=all&viewAsMember=true)  Podcast Producer: tootakpro.fr (http://tootakpro.fr/) / Pierre Denis   Audio director: Katia Grivot  Audio reporter and Voice off : Zoe Brown   Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

In this episode - SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy - find out how we use anaerobic digestion to capture biomethane from wastewater sludge and turn it into energy to power local homes in Fréjus with Cédric Sabatini, Works manager at OTV;  - how green infrastructure created energy-positive wastewater treatment plant in Cagnes-sur-Mer with Louis Nègre, mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer and Hervé Paul, Vice President at Metropole Nice Cote d’Azur; - and how we produce twice as much biomethane and reduce waste by fifty percent more than standard technologies at the Billund BioRefinery with Ole Johnsen, ex CEO of Billund Water and Energy.     Want to learn more about our contribution to 11 SDGs: https://bit.ly/3f54imv     Check out our social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/VeoliaWaterTech), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/veolia-water-technologies/posts/?feedView=all&viewAsMember=true)     Podcast Producer: tootakpro.fr (http://tootakpro.fr/) / Pierre Denis  Audio director: Katia Grivot  Audio reporter and Voice off : Zoe Brown   Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

 In this episode - about SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure - we will encounter two ways two different companies are doing just this: building resilience  —doing more with fewer resources, as we will discover in Costa Brava, with Lluis Sala, head of drinking water supply and water reclamation at the Costa Brava Girona Water Consortium. —or using augmented reality to provide service to faraway clients, as we did in Jordan, with Alex Rapoport, vice president of Product and Marketing for Fieldbit.      Want to learn more about our contribution to 11 SDGs: https://bit.ly/3f54imv     Check out our social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/VeoliaWaterTech), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/veolia-water-technologies/posts/?feedView=all&viewAsMember=true)     Podcast Producer: tootakpro.fr (http://tootakpro.fr/) / Pierre Denis  Audio director: Katia Grivot  Audio reporter: Patrick Smith  Voice off : Zoe Brown   Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

In this episode - about SDG 1 : no poverty - we will discover how providing access to water helps reduce inequalities and poverty around the globe, whether it is in a remote area of Sri Lanka with Olivier Estienne, Project Director for OTV or in a densely populated city such as Beirut, Lebanon with Nicolas Hasbani, Technical Director for Veolia Water Technologies in Lebanon.     Want to learn more about our contribution to 11 SDGs: https://bit.ly/3f54imv     Check out our social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/VeoliaWaterTech), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/veolia-water-technologies/posts/?feedView=all&viewAsMember=true)     Podcast Producer: tootakpro.fr (http://tootakpro.fr/) / Pierre Denis  Audio director: Katia Grivot  Audio reporter and Voice off : Zoe Brown   Journaliste : Julie Clavier  Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

In this episode — focused on SDG 15: life on land — we visit two places where Veolia Water Technologies has helped undo environmental damage such as purifying untreated water from an abandoned open-pit mine in Canada, and removing Agent Orange from soils at Da Nang Airport in Vietnam.     First we hear from Philippe Sainte-Marie, Tender and Procurement Director for Veolia Water Technologies in Canada. He explains how installing a water treatment plant to decontaminate the water from the lead-zinc mine was a big challenge for him and his team.  Next Maiken Faurbye, Department Manager for Soil Remediation at Krûger A/S shares how she fulfilled her wish of using her geology education for something meaningful and useful for the environment.     Want to learn more about our contribution to 11 SDGs: https://bit.ly/3f54imv     Check out our social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/VeoliaWaterTech), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/veolia-water-technologies/posts/?feedView=all&viewAsMember=true)     Podcast Producer: tootakpro.fr (http://tootakpro.fr/) / Pierre Denis  Audio director: Katia Grivot  Audio reporter and Voice off : Zoe Brown   Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

In this episode — dedicated to SDG 6: ensure access to water and sanitation for all — travel with us from the Caribbean islands of Saint Martin to Egypt. Let’s meet Mark Dyson, the Vice President of our Mobile Water Services business and Manuel Valles, Industrial Development Manager, for Veolia Water Technologies in Spain and learn how they cooperated to provide emergency mobile water units to help more than 40,000 people regain access to safe drinking water following the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. Finally, Maged Tolba, Sales and Marketing Director, for Veolia Water Technologies Egypt explains to us how water is reused for agriculture to help reduce severe water scarcity owing to its rapidly growing population and inefficient irrigation.  Want to learn more about how Veolia Water Technologies (https://www.veoliawatertechnologies.com/en/our-commitment-planet-and-our-customers) contributes to 11 SDGs.     Check out our social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/VeoliaWaterTech), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/veolia-water-technologies/posts/?feedView=all&viewAsMember=true)    Podcast Producer: tootakpro.fr (http://tootakpro.fr/) / Pierre Denis  Audio director: Katia Grivot  Audio reporter and Voice off : Zoe Brown   Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This episode is an introduction to our podcast series, Blue Gold, in which you will find passionate people who care about the planet and protecting it for the next generations. In this episode, you listen to: Vincent Caillaud, CEO of Veolia Water Technologies, sharing his vision on how Veolia has aligned its purpose  with the SDGs. Maged Tolba, Sales and Marketing Director, Veolia Water Technologies Egypt Maiken Faurbye, Department Manager for Soil Remediation, Krûger A/S Olivier Estienne, Project Director, OTV Sri Lanka Philippe Sainte-Marie, Tender and Procurement Director, Veolia Water Technologies Canada                                                                                                                                             Want to learn more about how Veolia Water Technologies (https://www.veoliawatertechnologies.com/en/our-commitment-planet-and-our-customers) contributes to 11 SDGs : https://bit.ly/3f54imv                                                                                                        Check out our social media:                                                                                          Twitter : https://bit.ly/39Kw2u8                                                                                   LinkedIn : https://bit.ly/2XVwa7k                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Podcast Producer : tootakpro.fr (http://tootakpro.fr/) / Pierre DENIS Audio director : Katia GRIVOT Audio reporter and Voice off : Zoe BROWN      Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.