S3E14 - The 3 Painful Challenges the US Water Sector Desperately Needs to Overcome | (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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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/

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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 😅).