with 🎙️ Susan Moisio - Global Water Director at Jacobs, where she leads a team of 9,000 water professionals across all regions.   💧 Jacobs pledges to push the limits of what's possible, continually challenging today to reinvent tomorrow. What we covered:  💧 How Jacobs' 9'000 water professionals build for a "One Water" Team - and what it involves in the company's market approach  🌎 How Susan swiftly grew into a market influencer - starting as early as one week into the job  ⬛ How Jacobs chooses to tackle carbon topics, why, and how it rolls out in terms of timelines and goals  🌱 How there's positive to find in the climate emergency, that can turn into a sustainable business opportunity  ☁️ How water is integral to climate response topics and often features at the heart of it  🤝 How water challenges have common traits from one place to the other, and how teaming up - for instance in associations and alliances - is a way to overcome them  🧑‍🏫 How the X-Factor to strive in this new environment is Leadership, and how to enforce best practices with that regard  1️⃣ How wastewater may be the best place to start, yet not in isolation and rather in One Water approaches  ⚡ How energy-positive organizations could be around the corner, and how some have already achieved that milestone  🌳 How when it comes to nature-based solutions it's not about gray or green but rather good management practices  0️⃣ Community involvement, climate change as a universal threat, Jacobs goals and roadmap, science-based objectives, being a gatekeeper, enabling innovation... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Check my full series on net zero water (https://dww.show/carbon/)  ➡️ Get the Full Story (https://dww.show/why-is-one-water-the-best-way-to-manage-our-vulnerable-water-cycle)            ➡️ Come say hi to Susan on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-moisio-310b5aa/)        

🎙️ Susan Moisio is the Global Water Director at Jacobs, where she leads a team of 9,000 water professionals across all regions. Susan names them a one water team, which you'll discover to be a key concept in today's discussion! Back in Season 3, I had a discussion on that microphone with the authors of the Sustainability Puzzle (https://dww.show/1001-reasons-why-the-sustainability-puzzle-is-a-unique-opportunity/) , Claudia Winkler and Alice Schmidt. And I couldn't help but think of one of the book's key advice when listening to Susan today: Zoom out before you zoom in. If you're a water professional, chances are that you define yourself as specialized in a section of the Water Cycle. You might be treating wastewater, managing a water network, preventing a sewer overflow, or producing your community's drinking water. Now, if you zoom out, you'll swiftly come to realize that you're dealing with the one water I shortly alluded to. But is that the end of the zoom out? Not really. There are many surroundings to the water cycle. Like the energy we consume or produce, the impact we have on adjacent industries, and our role in both mitigating and sometimes causing climate change. Solving the riddle needs to be bigger than water. Would you expect thought leaders like Jacobs to think outside of the water box? Probably. Did they? Of course - and Susan will take us through that landscape in just a minute. You'll swiftly get to understand why, Global Water Intelligence named her one of the 40 most influential people in the Water Industry. And you'll see that there are very interesting bridges between what she shared and what the other experts in this mini-series on water positive, zero Carbon explained to us. We'll have five feature interviews on that podcast, and I'll have the same five speakers on stage with me for the Global Water Summit in Madrid. If you want a complete overview, check my full series on net zero water (https://dww.show/carbon/) , and of course if you don't want to miss any of these interviews, make sure to subscribe to the podcast. It's free, and it's even better if you share it with your friends or colleagues.  I'll let you share it, and I'll meet you on the other side! Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E10 - Why is One Water the Best Way t manage our Vulnerable Water Cycle?" You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website (https://dww.show/why-is-one-water-the-best-way-to-manage-our-vulnerable-water-cycle)                  

with 🎙️ Maria Manidaki - Net Zero Technical Lead and Principal Water Investment Planning Advisor at Mott MacDonald  💧 Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy, that places social outcomes at the center of all it does. What we covered:  🧭 How social outcomes are a north star to guide all carbon actions  🌎 How the full concept of a good net-zero outgrew carbon neutrality and global warning for the better  🍃 How the outcomes of COP 26 might still not be clear enough as to how to roll out the new carbon normal  ❌ How leadership is the X-factor in succeeding or failing the net-zero transition  🦶 How wastewater treatment direct emissions may soon represent 60% of water companies' footprint - and what to do to mitigate it  💸 How to adapt procurement strategies to enable carbon strategies  🧑‍🏫 How to educate this generation of professionals (and the next one)  0️⃣ Net Zero as a new paradigm rather than a fancy, fresh thinking, collaboration platforms, new standards, and frameworks, zooming out before you zoom in, achieving 2030 objectives with 2050 in sight... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Check my full series on net zero water (https://dww.show/carbon/)  ➡️ Get the Full Story (https://dww.show/how-water-uk-intends-to-reach-a-good-net-zero-two-decades-early/)           ➡️ Come say hi to Maria on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariamanidaki/)       

🎙️ Maria Manidaki is Net Zero Technical Lead and Principal Water Investment Planning Advisor at Mott MacDonald. Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy, that places social outcomes at the center of all it does. You know the saying: smoke is a good proxy to determine if there's a fire. Well, it turns out that the same applies to greenhouse gases. Studies demonstrated how carbon emissions are, in fact, a good proxy for resource efficiency. So, if you want to optimize your resources and build a sustainable approach, you'd better monitor, control, and limit your greenhouse gas emissions. Long story short: down the line, Water UK just equipped itself with a 2030 routemap that aims for net zero in the Water Sector. It's not alone in this endeavor, as 81 utilities in the World and at the time I'm recording this in may 2022 have taken that pledge, but I'd say it's the most structured approach I've seen so far. Maria will guide us through all of that in a minute, and explain the role that Mott MacDonald plays in Water UK's routemap, in further working groups such as PAS 2080 and beyond, and if you're like me, you'll also get to discover a new notion: the concept of a GOOD net zero. We'll have five feature interviews on that podcast, and I'll have the same five speakers on stage with me for the Global Water Summit in Madrid. If you want a complete overview, check my full series on net zero water (https://dww.show/carbon/) , and of course if you don't want to miss any of these interviews, make sure to subscribe to the podcast. It's free, and it's even better if you share it with your friends or colleagues.  I'll let you share it, and I'll meet you on the other side! Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E9 - How Water UK intends to Reach a Good Net Zero, Two Decades Early!" You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website (https://dww.show/how-water-uk-intends-to-reach-a-good-net-zero-two-decades-early)                 

with 🎙️ Stephane Bessadi - Senior Procurement Specialist for the Asian Development Bank  💧 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) commits to a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and Pacific Region.  What we covered:  🌎  How to build more efficient, inclusive, and climate friendly water and wastewater projects  ⚡ How water challenges often come hand in hand with energy struggles - and how to kill two birds with one stone  💻 How STEEP was built from pilot studies and field data, enriched with operational feedback  🤖 How digital solutions and new technologies support the transition towards higher energy efficiency  💧 How the population's welfare is highly interlinked with water quality - especially in developing countries  💰 Getting value for money, assessing technologies, supporting innovation, partnering with private sector companies, acting with pedagogy... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Check my full series on net zero water (https://dww.show/carbon/)  ➡️ Get the Full Story (https://dww.show/how-to-ensure-energy-and-carbon-resilient-projects-with-a-simple-screening-tool/)          ➡️ Come say hi to Stephane on LinkedIn      

🎙️ Stephane Bessadi is Senior Procurement Specialist for the Asian Development Bank. ADB - its short name you'll hear quite a lot in the next minutes - commits to a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and Pacific Region. Urbanization ticks at a high pace in the Asia Pacific region, with 65% of the population that's expected to live in cities. Water and Wastewater infrastructures will have to adapt, and this has consequences. Without even considering water, the region will soon represent 40% of the World's greenhouse gas emissions, a number that's still to increase if we factor in the future energy needs of the newly created water infrastructures. Hence, the Asian Development Bank is at the same time a big contributor to that transition, as it invests about one billion dollars every year in water supply and wastewater management projects and is a front row observer with a wealth of data to leverage.  This is how, as Stephane will explain, they've developed a screening tool for the energy evaluation of projects that ensures that the best decisions are taken today to build a sustainable infrastructure for the decades to come. If you want to review the tool while listening to Stéphane's explanations, check the show notes - I've placed the link there to both the publication and the Excel tool (https://www.adb.org/publications/screening-tool-energy-evaluation-projects-wss) . We'll have five feature interviews on that podcast, and I'll have the same five speakers on stage with me for the Global Water Summit in Madrid. If you want a complete overview, check my full series on net zero water (https://dww.show/carbon/) , and of course if you don't want to miss any of these interviews, make sure to subscribe to the podcast. It's free, and it's even better if you share it with your friends or colleagues.  I'll let you share it, and I'll meet you on the other side! Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E8 - How to ensure Energy and Carbon Resilient projects with a Simple Screening Tool" You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website (https://dww.show/how-to-cut-wastewaters-energy-related-carbon-emissions-in-two-at-no-cost/)                

with 🎙️ Austin Alexander - Vice President, Sustainability and Social Impact at Xylem  💧 Xylem is a leading water technology company with the famous "solving water" motto - and a finalist for this year's Net Zero Carbon Award at the Global Water Summit What we covered:  🌎 How climate change is the overarching concern for many further challenges  🦶 How the supply chain's carbon footprint is a nice benchmark, but much less impactful than its handprint  🛗 How carbon savings can come in various shapes and how the simplest is often the best  ⚡ How energy savings are greenhouse gas impacts before cost reductions  🏗️ How water infrastructure may benefit from more nuanced takes on its revamping  0️⃣ Growing as a Xylem supplier, net zero as a hot topic, ratings being a tedious task, sustainability being embedded in water topics, water professionals being on a mission, sustainability being a long-ball game... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Check my full series on net zero water (https://dww.show/carbon/)  ➡️ Get the Full Story (https://dww.show/how-to-cut-wastewaters-energy-related-carbon-emissions-in-two-at-no-cost/)         ➡️ Come say hi to Austin on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-alexander-769bb82b/)     

🎙️ Austin Alexander is Vice President, Sustainability and Social Impact at Xylem, a leading water technology company with the famous "solving water" motto.  What if solving water actually involved solving Carbon and leading the race to net zero? As Austin will explain in a minute, Xylem believes that if we don't tackle Carbon in the Water Sector, it will make all our other challenges much more complex and tricky. Great, but if solving Carbon wasn't complex and tricky itself, we would have done it for a while, right? Well, by COP 26 last year, Xylem published a white paper looking at ways to reduce our greenhouse gas impacts in the wastewater sector. And it turns out, as they demonstrate, that a 50% reduction could be easily achieved with today's technologies and, in 95% of the cases, at no additional or even negative cost! So what are we waiting? Actually, Xylem isn't waiting at all, and they're currently rolling out their 2025 strategy to reduce their CO2 handprint by over 2.8 million metric tons. What's a handprint? How do they achieve that? Where do they stand? What can we all steal and apply as a sector? How does it impact the entire value chain? Don't worry; Austin will answer all of that - and more - in a minute. If you're intrigued by the topic of Carbon in the water sector and want to join the race to zero, make sure to follow my various stops this week on that road.  We'll have five feature interviews on that podcast, and I'll have the same five speakers on stage with me for the Global Water Summit in Madrid. If you want a complete overview, check my full series on net zero water (https://dww.show/carbon/) , and of course if you don't want to miss any of these interviews, make sure to subscribe to the podcast. It's free, and it's even better if you share it with your friends or colleagues.  I'll let you share it, and I'll meet you on the other side! Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E7 - How to cut Wastewater's Energy Related Carbon Emissions in Two at No Cost?" You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website (https://dww.show/how-to-cut-wastewaters-energy-related-carbon-emissions-in-two-at-no-cost/)                

with 🎙️Jon Freedman - Senior Vice President - Global Government Affairs at SUEZ WTS  💧 SUEZ WTS provides industry-leading water technology and process expertise to solve the toughest water, wastewater, and process challenges What we covered:  🇺🇸 How the US federal government just put out a National Water Reuse Action Plan (WRAP)   👑 How among the 55 action items, Jon holds one that's especially interesting  🧠 How there are four levers from a policy standpoint to promote greater water reuse (and what they are)  🦸‍♂️ How a fifth approach might well trump them all, by incentivizing water reuse  💪 How we might have to 5x water reuse in the coming decade  🤝🏿  How private sector, multilateral organization, development agencies and governments will have to work hand in hand to develop water reuse  💰 How the US infrastructure bill will apply to the water sector, and what the $55 billion there will be allocated to  ❇️ How the scattered nature of the water utility scene in the US can prevent rapid actions from being taken  🍏 How decentralized water reuse might be a powerful solution, and how the 50L Home coalition promotes this direction  🍏 How Los Angeles intends to reuse 100% of its wastewater by 2035 and what it deploys to meet that goal  🌱 How piloting reuse solutions goes beyond a pure technological assessment  🍎 How water tariffs and their absence when it comes to river and groundwater are crucial influencers for the adoption of reuse  🦈 Teaching at the university and the Wharton School, Creating an “H2O Shark Tank,” Membrane Bioreactors as a fundamental technological brick, the water usage mix, PFAS treatment, having aspirational goals... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Get the Full Story (https://dww.show/who-will-become-the-uss-first-water-reuse-champion-ever/)        ➡️ Come say hi to Jon on LinkedIn     

🎙️ Jon Freedman is the Senior Vice President - Global Government Affairs at SUEZ WTS; he's teaching about the future of Water at the University of Pennsylvania. Starting next spring, he'll also be conducting a class on the business and governance of water at the Wharton School.  What levers can you play on to promote greater water reuse? Well, you can act on the money side of the equation, for instance, by incentivizing the deployment of new technologies through grants and loans. But also by making the wrong behavior more expensive. You want to use your water only once and flush it away? No problem, as long as it becomes expensive - third parties, be it governments, utilities, or agencies, can then make that money work to deploy the technologies I just mentioned. You can also play with regulations. People don't want to reuse? Let's just make it mandatory. Forcing it isn't always the most elegant solution, but it's hard to argue that it doesn't work. Finally, on the total other ends of the spectrum, you can award good pupils with recognition for their right moves. And that is the task Jon has on his plate right now, as he'll explain in a minute with his project of crowning a US Water Reuse champion.  In a world that's never black or white, Jon will guide us through all the shades of gray and all the ongoing and future projects that mix some of these four approaches.  Don't worry; I'll avoid spoiling too much of the thorough review of water reuse policies and their rollout at various scales, and I'll let you dive into my conversation with Jon. Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E6 - Who will become the US's first Water Reuse Champion Ever?" You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website (https://dww.show/who-will-become-the-uss-first-water-reuse-champion-ever/)