S7E11 - The Dear Link Between Water, SDGs and our Everyday Lives | (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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with 🎙️ Kevin Sofen - Director of Innovation at W. S. Darley & Co., Host of the Smart Firefighting podcast, and Co-Host of the SDG Talks Podcast.

💧 The SDG Talks podcast highlights Change Makers and their work towards the UN SDGs with a sound passion for highlighting people and organizations that will transform the world into a better place for everyone.

What we covered:

💧 How Kevin first got involved with Water when he aimed to rethink H2O, and how his focus evolved into the SDG Talks

🔵 How water's value is multi-faceted and how you need a holistic and almost ethnographic approach to really evaluate its impact

🖇️ How Water is deeply interconnected with many - if not all - of the SDGs

🚰 How we often lack information about Water Quality and how to take on that challenge - with examples from Flint or Jacksonville

🌱 How it's time to not only fight climate change, but also start thinking about climate change adaptation technologies

🤝 How everyone should take ownership of their Water Quality and how they may be coached to do so

🏌️ Water as a vector of inclusion, Golfing next to Lake Michigan, Coach K, Elkhart Lake, Kevin's Why... and much more!

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

➡️ Send your warm regards to Kevin on LinkedIn. Or follow him on Twitter.

➡️ Check the SDG Talk's website

➡️ Enrich your curiosity's inner fire with the Smart Firefighting podcast's website

➡️ Check out the full story on how to close the water gap on the (don't) Waste Water website!

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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 😅).