S5E2 - How to Systemically drive Money into Water and escape Global Water Stupidity | (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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with 🎙️ Christopher Gasson - Owner of Global Water Intelligence and authority on water finance and markets

💧 Global Water Intelligence is the leading publisher and events organizer serving the international water industry.

What we covered:

💰 How there are two international things in water: money and technology.

👬 How taking off Global Water Intelligence involved focusing on those two ends of the market

🤑 How still, it is quite controversial to associate water and money (and why it is not a positive sign)

🤪 How people associate a list of terrible mental models to that very water-finance link

💧 How water is capital intensive, and how much you'll have to invest to get $1 of revenue

☠️ How this water industry feature leads to innovation inhibition and major hurdles for water entrepreneurs

🤯 What drives utilities in their infrastructure investment approach

😕 Why SDG 6 targets are stranded for exactly this same missing link between water and finance

🤝 How we shall tell the World about water's profitability (and try to shine the right light on sanitation to make it look the same)

🍏 How the ESG investment wave can be a blessing, assuming we create the opportunities for ESG money to finance the right projects

🧱 The challenges utilities have to overcome, so finance trust them and bets on their future development plans

💧 How it is about time to connect the dots in the scattered water industry to power a triple win

🍎 How a whole load of people talks about saving the world while skipping the thing which really matters: the money to save it

🍎 How climate change brings a third international compound in water

⭕ How describing water consumers as stakeholders is wrong (and why)

💸 How the link between money and water can be proven by the absurd, whenever you deprive the latter of the former

📗 How GWI was a 162-subscriber struggling magazine 20 years ago, how it evolved into today's world reference, and what that changes and enables

👏 Predicting the future and how it's impossible, being catastrophically wrong, needing the sound of two hands clapping to be successful, the SUEZ-Veolia drama, desalination... and much more!

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

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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.

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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.

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