with 🎙️ Abdulla Alshehhi, Managing Director of National Advisor Bureau Limited, CEO of Q2 General Cleaning, and Business Support Section Head at GASCO   💧 National Advisor Bureau Limited leverages creativity and innovation to be a leading Consultant Firm For start-up businesses & Established Companies What we covered: 🌱 How to green a desert, you need a magical substance: Water!  🍏 How an Idea extensively investigated in the 1970s (https://dww.show/this-iceberg-idea-already-crazy-in-1825-may-be-the-future-of-water/) to bring and Iceberg in the Arab peninsula may now really become feasible  🍏 How Antarctic Icebergs may represent a sound source of water for the ever-increasing water needs of the World  🍎 How Water Scarcity is an intricate problem, and how it is not going to ease down with Global Warming  🛗 How Abdulla's project interacts and leverages the other initiatives around  🍏 How he ambitions to run the first Iceberg tow to a southern hemisphere city like Perth or Cape Town  🍏 How the first to actually tow an iceberg to a thirsty place of the world will make history.  🍎 How iceberg water may be a welcome replacement for desalinated water, which comes with a wealth of environmental side-effects  🍎 How the water industry reacted to the project  🍏 How much an actual Icerberg tow would cost, and how that translates in terms of cost per gallon/liter  🍏 How, ecologically speaking, an Iceberg tow is a drop in the ocean with limited if any environmental impact  🌧️ How the presence of the Iceberg along the Fujairah coast may create a positive microclimate  🍏 How the United Nations are considering the idea as an unconventional water resource 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Send your warm regards to Abdulla Alshehhi on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdulla2alshehi/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/the-magical-substance-you-need-to-green-a-desert-actually-comes-from-antarctica/

National Advisor Bureau Limited carries an ambitious project for the United Arab Emirates: harvesting and towing an Iceberg to crush it for its water, and eventually green a desert on the long run. 🎙️ Abdulla Alshehhi, Managing Director at National Advisor Bureau Limited, shares the ins and outs of his iceberg project, from the rationale to the actual plan, through the obstacles to overcome and the international reaction. To discover the full interview, type "S3E15 - The Magical Substance you need to Green a Desert actually comes from Antarctica" You can also find Abdulla's interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/the-magical-substance-you-need-to-green-a-desert-actually-comes-from-antarctica/

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 misunderstood opportunities in the water sector that are hence undercapitalized.  What we covered: 🌱 How Water - maybe against the odds - is a very big growth market!  🍎 As teased in the title: the 3 main challenges US water companies face today  🍏 How Sciens Water leverages institutional capital from many investors worldwide to trigger an impact on the Water Industry  🍏 How public awareness shall generate a change in the approach to Water in the future  🌱 How hypergrowth is possible in the Water Industry, yet not in a Twitter or Uber fashion  🧮 How bottled water may well overtake utility water in the residential segment; it doesn't necessarily matter when you put it in perspective with the much larger industrial and agriculture pieces of the puzzle  🍏 How water doesn't work in isolation: just look beyond the silo  🍎 How the Water space very much resembles an orchestra, currently producing a cacophonous noise.  🍏 The distributed benefits of Water, Water as an investment good, Financial and Societal benefits not being mutually exclusive... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Send your warm regards to Alexander Loucopoulos on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-loucopoulos-66780/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/the-3-painful-challenges-the-us-water-sector-desperately-needs-to-overcome/

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 Loucopoulos, Partner at both Sciens Capital Management and Sciens Water, shares how he aims to solve the three major challenges the US Water Market currently faces. To discover the full interview, type "S3E14 - The 3 Painful Challenges the US Water Sector Desperately Needs to Overcome" You can also find Alex's interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/the-3-painful-challenges-the-us-water-sector-desperately-needs-to-overcome/

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 of possible options, the one consisting of towing an iceberg from Antarctica to the aridest places of the World (Dubai, Perth, Cape Town...) may well be much less insane than what you thought? Seriously. The World will miss 40% of its needed Water in 2030. It's maybe time to get creative, so suspend your disbelief: Iceberg Water may REALLY be a sustainable solution! From the Emirates to South Africa, through the USA, France, and Antarctica, I went down the Rabbit Hole. *** ➡️  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/ ➡️  Check the Video Version of this Bonus Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOgFFknM4E

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, David Lloyd Owen discusses global progress towards fulfilling SDG 6, proposes alternative solutions to lack of funding, and examines the reasons why countries are failing at implementing safe and sustainable water and sanitation for all. What we covered: 🍎 How the World is late not only on achieving SDG 6 but also on aligning to start working on it  🧮 How out of the three possible paths to solve the Global Water Funding challenge, only one is likely to happen  🍏 The ins and outs of Getting more Funds, Adopting adapted Water Tariffs and Doing More with Less  🌱 A breath of hope with Success Cases to replicate to set ourselves up to fulfill SDG 6  🧮 How numbers can be tricky, considering that only the 'best pupils' usually answer surveys and share data  🍎 How water is a political good that can serve much broader ambitions than just satisfy the thirst of people  🍏 How Denmark can be considered the international benchmark when it comes to water preservation and management  🍏 How Chile turned its entire Water Management on its head, thanks to political will - hence becoming another benchmark  💥 How the current level of Funding in the Water Sector not only fails to reach the SDG6 but also won't allow maintaining current service levels  💥 How non-utility water will surpass utility water when it comes to Funding by the end of the current SDG cycle, and how that may trigger a negative spiral, ultimately becoming an existential threat  🍏 How the lowest hanging fruit may be cutting non-revenue water, currently representing 77 liters per day and capita in the World.  🍏 Private Vs. Public, Decentralized Treatments, Reuse Vs. Desalination, Populism, next writing topics... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Send your warm regards to David Lloyd Owen on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-lloyd-owen-24675a2/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/3-paths-to-reach-sdg-6-by-2050-all-our-hopes-are-on-3/

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 Water Intelligence, Advisor on several boards, and author of "Global Water Funding," shares some ideas to speed things up, and finally, reach the sustainable development goal number six! To discover the full interview, type "S3E13 - 3 Paths to Reach SDG 6 by 2050: All Our Hopes are on #3!" in your favorite podcatcher's research bar! You can also find David's full interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/3-paths-to-reach-sdg-6-by-2050-all-our-hopes-are-on-3/

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 powerful approach to problem-solving  💡 How it can help companies of all sizes to beef up their innovation  🍏  A walk through the stages of a Design Thinking project   💥 A counter-intuitive demonstration that the faster you fail, the better it is  🍏 The common traits and differences between Design Thinking, Growth Hacking, Agile, Kanban (and many other methodologies)  🍏 How the "Design" in "Design Thinking" may be misleading   🤖 How design thinking applies to problems that involve humans and users, not in purely technical cases.   🍏 How to design a prototype with regards to the hypothesis you want to verify  🧮 How you shall carefully select the problem you'd like to solve  🌱 How starting small is the surest way to deliver  🍏 How hierarchy still plays a role within an Innovation Project   🍎 How to avoid a cultural clash when implementing Design Thinking into an existing organization with a strong history   3️⃣ The three very actionable tools you can apply from tomorrow on to beef up your innovation.   🍏 But also risk-taking, daring, teaming up, questioning beliefs, adding the Planet as a stakeholder, and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Send your warm regards to Lea Im Obersteg on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leaimobersteg/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/design-thinking-will-make-you-fail-faster-thats-exactly-what-you-need/

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 Obersteg, Head of Global Design Thinking @ GF Piping Systems shares how a 219 old company implemented Design Thinking, and what you can learn or adapt from it. To discover the full interview, type "S3E12 - Design Thinking Will Make You Fail Faster: That's Exactly What You Need!" in your favorite podcatcher's research bar! You can also find Lea's interview on the (don') Waste Water website: https://dww.show/design-thinking-will-make-you-fail-faster-thats-exactly-what-you-need/

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 by 10 in 4 years? - or when SUEZ did twice the same move, 20 years apart, for hopefully a different outcome? - or when "Jean-Marie Messier, Me, Myself, Master of the World" took his nickname a bit too seriously? SUEZ and VEOLIA may end up happily married. ... but only if they learn from their past failures 😉 00:00 Introduction 00:50 Why would a Water Company go for M&A? 06:06 Flop n°3 - VEOLIA & US Filter 10:25 Flop n°2 - SUEZ & Nalco 15:49 Flop n°1 - VEOLIA & Universal *** ➡️  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/ ➡️  Check the Video Version of this Bonus Episode: https://youtu.be/SMSN7T8DYdk