S4E4 - 18 Months Left to "Close the Gap": Beware, the Water Clock is Ticking! | (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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with 🎙️ Mina Guli, CEO and Co-Founder of the Thirst Foundation, Director of the Antarctic Science Foundation, Director of the Global Water Partnership and Adventurer.

💧 The Thirst Foundation is dedicated to getting the global water crisis to the top of the agenda and driving innovation to use less water every day.

What we covered:

🏃‍♀️ How Mina Guli ran across 7 deserts on 7 continents in 7 weeks to raise awareness on Water Scarcity

🏃‍♀️ How she completed 40 marathons in 40 days and started a 100 marathons in 100 days series, then broke her leg in #62

🍏 How her bringing the "Close the Gap" message across to 4 billion people is proof that we're all capable of doing anything

📚 How the Water Crisis is the story of People, and how we shall get them heard

🍏 How we must find a way to accelerate action to Close the Gap

🙋 How we need to put water onto the global agenda

🌎 How the UN Conference on Water in 2023 is our opportunity to move the needle and Close that Gap

💪 How there's Jeff Bezos, the Pope... and Mina on Fortune Magazine's list of the 50 greatest leaders in the World

🍎 How regardless of where you are on earth, Water Scarcity will impact you through the goods you consume

🍎 How if we don't care, there's always going to be something more important or simpler than water to put on a corporate agenda

🍏 How the right scale to ignite action might be the companies, as they are quick to act when something impacts their supply chains or their bottom line

🍏 How Water is the main ingredient in everything we grow or manufacture, and how it's not as simple as water price equals water value

💪 How individually you can have an impact but together we can change the World

🧮 People filling in for Marathons 63 to 100, Agriculture as a key battlefield, the role of individuals, regulators, and policymakers... and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/18-months-left-to-close-the-gap-beware-the-water-clock-is-ticking/

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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 😅).