S5E3 - What would it Empower, if Water Actually Became a Non Fungible Token? | (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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with 🎙️ Katrina Donaghy - CEO & Co-Founder of Civic Ledger

💧 Civic Ledger is an award-winning blockchain company that builds trust layer solutions for the markets of tomorrow

What we covered:

❌ How today's water management often resembles a market failure

💧 How water markets are often not optimized and hence water doesn't flow to its best use

🦘 How the Australian water markets in particular are an example of a scattered, financialized, and opaque set-up

₿ How blockchain could turn water into a non-fungible token - and how that could be good news

💰 How a crypto exchange platform would look like, and how it would work

💸 How leveraging cryptocurrencies, blockchain and water ledgers, we could decentralize water finance

₿ How Katrina's Bitcoin encounter was a serendipitous moment

🤝🏿 How you can't go 100% blockchain from the get-go and how Civic Ledger splits smart contracts into two

🤲 How integrating water markets with blockchain finally brings 23 markets together with a common real-time source of truth

🚚 How water is non-fungible because of its heavy and hard-to-transport long-distance nature

📟 How the next frontier would be to couple blockchain trading with a hydrologic digital twin (and why)

🔋 How ironic it is to blame blockchain's energy consumption while altogether avoiding the point with gold and physical money

🌎 Interlinking with mineral flows and ESG investment, Competing with centralized trading in this new ESG realm, Working with the World Economic Forum, developing patent NFTs... and much more!

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

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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 😅).