with 🎙️ Ravid Levy - Founder & Consultant at RLV Consulting  💧 RLV Consulting helps Water Innovators to translate their technical R&D into Business Chances, Go-To-Market Plans, and Investment Opportunities  What we covered: 🍏 How to build a sustainable frame to overcome water scarcity?  🍏 How agricultural water uses - often a blindspot of the water industry - triggered innovation in a good example of constrained creativity  🍏 How scarcity can be an overall driver for innovation  🍏 How national water law and central planning are the two pillars of Israel's water miracle  🍏 How those pillars lead to new water applications such as distributed treatments  🍏 How we're in an evolution process, that turned Homo Pollutius into Homo Ecologicus, hopefully, Homo Reusis and ultimately Homo Circularis  🍏 Drip Irrigation, Solar Heating, Aquaponics, World Leadership... and more!  🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Send your warm regards to Ravid Levy on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravid-levy/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here (https://dww.show/the-two-surprising-pillars-that-support-israels-water-miracle/) : https://dww.show/the-two-surprising-pillars-that-support-israels-water-miracle/

with 🎙️ Nicola Lei Ravello (& Antoine Walter) Many Water Professionals expressed their concern about the Sector's financial valuation. 🤑 It all started with Global Water Intelligence's updated top 50 list of Water Businesses and simple maths. All these companies together almost reached 130 Bn$ in yearly revenue. This collided with the latest news about ByteDance's valuation (TikTok's mother company), at about 250 Bn$. Do you see the shortcut? 🤔 50 Water Companies together = Half of the 7th largest Social Media alone ▶ Can this be true?! We checked this with the financial expert Nicola Lei Ravello, an Independent investment consultant and founder of White Stag Investing, a research platform for responsible investments. *** ➡️ Do you like this short format, answering one key question/topic? Let me know on LinkedIn!  ➡️ Get the Full Podcast Series here: https://dww.show/

with 🎙️ Megan Glover - CEO and Co-Founder of 120Water 💧 120Water is an end-to-end solution for drinking water programs, COVID-19 wastewater sampling, and compliance. What we covered: 🍏 How the Idea for 120Water came from scratching own itches 🍏 How the company swiftly pivoted from B2C to B2B or B2B2C (I hear you like acronyms? 😀) 🍏 How digitizing the way you test the water and manage the results actually enables a whole new world of operation and maintenance 🍏 How bringing this information in plain sight helps to educate the public on the water topics and challenges 🍏 How innovation can be inhibited by regulation 🍏 How you shall consider non-technical parameters such as demographics when prioritizing maintenance works (and how 120Water helps with that) 🍏 How having been involved in 13'000 programs across 26 States turns 120Water into a bespoke lead expert (and how that leads - no pun intended 😊 - to adjacencies) 🍏 How a fresh eye on the water sector can be shocked by what water professionals got accustomed to (e.g., black boxes) 🍏 How customer communications might still be a blind spot for the Water Industry 🍏 How Energy may be a role-model market for the Water Sector when it comes to marketing 🍏 How you can't manufacture growth (but may actually "hypergrow" your path to impact) 🍏 Michael Moore, PFAS, IPO... and so much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Send your warm regards to Megan Glover on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megancglover/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/whats-hidden-in-your-tap-water-dont-worry-your-utility-doesnt-really-know-better/

 with 🎙️ Antoine Walter We're wrapping up Season 2 of the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast! ▶️ A perfect opportunity to discuss a Water Industry blind spot: how to tell better stories! *** Here are the books I'd recommend if you'd like to dig deeper: Save the Cat by Blake Snyder - https://savethecat.com/products/books/save-the-cat-the-last-book-on-screenwriting-youll-ever-need 7 Stories Every Salesperson Must Tell - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41040485-seven-stories-every-salesperson-must-tell What Great Salespeople Do by Michael Bosworth and Ben Zoldan - https://storyleaders.com/book/ *** ▶ Take the PODCAST SURVEY, win one of the 3 PRIZES! (results on June 8, 2021!) ▶  https://form.typeform.com/to/IVPzoprd  *** ➡️ Ask for your copy of the Season 2 Book on Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antoinewalter1_waterindustry-podcast-waterbook-activity-6805734044848922624-6E7g  ➡️ Get the Full Podcast Series here: https://dww.show/

 with 🎙️ Jacob Bossaer - CEO and Founder of BOSAQ 💧 BOSAQ is a very ambitious Water Scale-Up aiming to develop innovative and future-proof drinking water solutions. What we covered: 🍏 How recycling water and energy in one of the earth's most remote places (Antarctica) led Jacob to found BOSAQ 🍏 How the biggest challenge to overcome the lack of access to drinking water might be political 🍏 How bottled water companies' marketing can and shall be replicated in the water industry 🍏 How building a water treatment unicorn involves taking a lot of risks and regularly passing quite close to bankruptcy 🍏 How BOSAQ started with only a Business Plan and a Flemish Grant to cover the company's first 6 months 🍏 The fascinating experiment the company enabled, where a restaurant's toilet and kitchen wastewaters are 100% recycled to be bottled and served back at the restaurant tables 🍏 How Jacob attempts to beat capitalism from the inside 🍏 How dreaming big is a duty as an entrepreneur 🍏 Water cost, IoT, Technology Transfer and so much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ▶ Take the PODCAST SURVEY, win one of the 3 PRIZES! (results on June 8, 2021!) ▶  https://form.typeform.com/to/IVPzoprd  ➡️ Send your warm regards to Jacob Bossaer on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-bossaer-12b172a/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here:  https://dww.show/how-to-save-no-less-than-2-2-billion-lives-aka-frozen-3/

 with 🎙️ Gabi Wolkinson - CEO and 🎙️ Ofir Menashe - CTO and Founder of BioCastle 💧 BioCastle is an environmental biotechnology company that encapsulates nature by developing and marketing an intriguing technology: the Small Bioreactor Platform. What we covered: 🍏 How BioCastle develops the smallest bio-reactor in the world 🍏 How its simplicity makes it a perfect fit for multiple wastewater treatment applications 🍏 How this full story starts with an almost midlife crisis for Ofir and pressing fish farming challenges for Gabi 🍏 How Gabi and Ofir might be considered bacteria breeders 🍏 The hurdles of starting commercial expansion in the middle of a Pandemic 🍏 How shelving bacteria opens a whole new world of targeted actions 🍏 How the adoption curve can be challenging for a young water treatment company 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ▶ Take the PODCAST SURVEY, win one of the 3 PRIZES! (results on June 8, 2021!) ▶  https://form.typeform.com/to/IVPzoprd  ➡️ Send your warm regards to Gabi Wolkinson on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabi-wolkinson-4a76b92/ ➡️ Then do the same with Ofir Menashe (still on Linkedin): https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofirmenashe/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here:    https://dww.show/do-you-really-provide-job-security-to-your-best-workers/ 

with 🎙️ Manaf Farhan - CEO & Co-Founder of EMG International 💧 EMG International is a leading company in Anaerobic Wastewater treatments, with a pretty unique take on anaerobic digestion. What we covered: 🍏 How Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Digestors enable to produce 4 times more energy than they consume to treat wastewater 🍏 How they can be fully automated to let industrial players focus on their production lines 🍏 4 good reasons to learn a new wastewater acronym with the AFBD's benefits. 🍏 How "hands-on" was literal when he started EMG together with his brother in the 90s 🍏 The similarities and differences between AFBDs, MBBRs and Microbial Fuel Cells 🍏 How to valorize biogas with the best efficiency 🍏 How anaerobic digestion is actually a replica of what's happening in... our body! 🍏 How EMG International addresses the industrial wastewater treatment market (and beyond!) 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ▶ Take the PODCAST SURVEY, win one of the 3 PRIZES! (results on June 8, 2021!) ▶  https://form.typeform.com/to/IVPzoprd  ➡️ Send your warm regards to Manaf Farhan on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manaf-farhan-741163/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here:   https://dww.show/how-to-treat-wastewater-in-a-net-grid-positive-way-while-mimicking-your-body/

with 🎙️ Michael Stanley Gallisdorfer 💧 Michael holds a Ph. D. in Geography and builds upon a unique (and multidisciplinary!) skill set, making him a Global Water expert. What we covered: 🍏 How we used to close and now re-open the rivers in our cities for roughly the same set of legitimate reasons 🍏  How (spoiler!) every dollar invested in river restoration actually provides a four-dollar return on investment 🍏 The perks and pitfalls of semi-natural ecosystems in the heart of cities 🍏 How 60s 'urbanization miracles' became modern nightmares 🍏 The three new and updated reasons why people want to go to cities (and why that matter for businesses) 🍏 The blue-green movement that changes the way we do economy 🍏 How better technical understanding and digitization enables to engineer with nature 🍏 How Sponge Cities are a new level of urbanization and environmental engineering, although still being a vivid debate in society 🍏 How involvement of all stakeholders is crucial to building a blue-green infrastructure 🍏 How cognitive connectivity needs to be restored along with water rehabilitation (and how that connects to... Heidegger!) 🍏 How water needs to be presented in a fun and lively way instead of focusing on the negative reconnection 🍏 Why and how a 'Water Incubator' could turn the tables  🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Send your warm regards to Michael Stanley Gallisdorfer on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-stanley-gallisdorfer-b7871611/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here:  https://dww.show/what-is-the-best-way-to-make-four-dollars-out-of-one/ 

with 🎙️ Ulrike Kelm - Chair of the Woman in Water and Sanitation Network 💧 The Woman in Water and Sanitation Network is an active ambassador for gender equality, connecting and empowering female professionals, expanding women’s career opportunities, and increasing their visibility. What we covered: 🍏 The societal patterns we all grew up with, that might explain the 83/17 gender rate we experience in the Water Industry 🍏 How role models might be the best way to break those patterns, and how this starts with visibility 🍏 How regulations and strong incentives might be the only ways to overcome the gender imbalance 🍏 How networking leverages our social nature to bring the necessary support to every woman water professional to achieve herself 🍏 How the dream to break down gender barriers in water and sanitation might only be one generation away 🍏 How the full talent pool (regardless of gender considerations) will be needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Send your warm regards to Ulrike Kelm on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrike-kelm/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here:  https://dww.show/its-hard-to-be-what-you-cant-see-how-to-get-more-women-in-water/

with 🎙️ Abdelhakim El Fadil - Ph.D. Researcher and Podcast Host 💧 The "Smart Water Solutions" podcast addresses technical hints and industrial expertise to better exploit water treatment technologies. What we covered: 🍏 How Sales and Marketing people active in our very technical industry need competitive benchmarks and technical understanding 🍏 How podcasting is a powerful channel to save them hours of exhausting searches and cross-platform investigation 🍏 The three layers of information that shape the Water Sector  🍏 How Giving is the true Having, as the better way to understand a topic actually is to explain it. 🍏 The influence of product lifecycles in the Water Industry 🍏 The work behind every single technical deep dive 🍏 The similarities and differences between scientific papers and podcasts 🍏 The best ways to bridge industry and academia to build a successful path 🍏 How the Water Industry's product life cycles make it a totally different beast compared with IT or Software 🍏 What's the path of a successful Ph.D. researcher during and after the deep dive it involves 🍏 How the best way to learn is to take critics, especially if they are bad, and to DO rather than think 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Send your warm regards to Abdelhakim El Fadil on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdelhakim-el-fadil-3240415b/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-to-do-competitive-intelligence-in-plain-sight-and-share-it-with-everyone/