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The Stream (with Will & Tom)

Will Sarni & Tom Freyberg

Technology

Frequency: 1 episode/23d. Total Eps: 75

An unscripted conversation with guests who reject the status quo with a bias for action, in the world of water and beyond. Co-hosted by Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - technology
23/12/2024
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Water and digital convergence – hydroinformatics leader Professor Dragan Savić

Season 8 · Episode 2

Thursday, December 12, 2024 • Duration 53:07

This week on The Stream, Will and Tom are joined by the incredible Professor Dragan Savić, a legend when it comes to the intersection of water and digital.

He was the UK’s first professor of Hydroinformatics, the former CEO of KWR Water Research Institute, and a chartered civil and water engineer with over 40 years of experience in research, teaching, and consulting.

Plus hear about:

How Will and Tom had the privilege of working alongside Dragan in recent years on an advisory board, at KWR and events.
Dragan sharing details of obtaining his master's in Belgrade, Serbia, before moving to Canada, the UK, and Exeter University. Tom would say it's probably the best university in the world, although, as a graduate, perhaps he's personally biased!
They discuss elements of ‘chance’, and how we can help to stack the odds in our favour by being open to new opportunities and embracing changes.
As well as touching on topics such as AI and population degrowth, he talks about development in Africa and how he wants to focus on the continent in the next phase of his very fruitful career.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes.

We’re delighted you can join us on this voyage of discovery, as we journey down The Stream.

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And our charity partner, Frank Water.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

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22 years driving water industry analysis and intelligence - industry torchbearer Christopher Gasson

Season 8 · Episode 1

Thursday, November 28, 2024 • Duration 52:19

It's time to celebrate the ‘Legends’ of water. 🎙️🌊

We are delighted to kickstart the season with this first episode, which welcomes Christopher Gasson, the owner and publisher of Global Water Intelligence, or GWI.

Christopher is well known analyst, publisher, business owner, and has been called the water industry torchbearer who has been building the GWI empire for over 20 years now. His monthly columns for the magazine are revered universally.

In this conversation he talks about the water and climate, the ‘Day Zero’ narrative and how it’s broken, the development of a global standard on water reuse, as well as project and procurement challenges.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes.

Catalysing first movers in the decentralised water evolution with Newsha Ajami | S6 Ep.3

Season 6 · Episode 3

Tuesday, August 15, 2023 • Duration 44:45

In this episode, Will and Tom are joined by Newsha Ajami, Chief Development Officer for Research, Earth & Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley Lab.

They talk about the role of water demand reduction to help increase water security across the Colorado River Basin.

Newsha discusses what’s needed to move from a centralised, aka the conventional water systems, to the decentralised model and the role of engaging community ambassadors.

She believes spurring the first movers is really important in the decentralised movement, and talks about policy developments and leading cities such as San Francisco

There is also talk, believe it or not, on pizza! That’s right, we discuss how digital innovation has given people insights on their pizza’s being cooked and delivered. Why is it that people have a more positive relationship with their local pizzeria than their water company?

It was great to have Newsha back on The Stream – we’re a big fan of her vision for the future of water.

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes.

Greywater reuse and beer with Aaron Tartakovsky | S6 Ep.2

Season 6 · Episode 2

Monday, August 7, 2023 • Duration 42:55

In this episode, Will and Tom are joined by Aaron Tartakovsky, co-founder and CEO of Epic Cleantec.

He talks about the company genesis, and going back to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet challenge.

With a background in politics and one of four co-founders of the business, Aaron talks about the challenges of carving out an entirely new market: onsite, water reuse within commercial buildings.

Although leading a recycled water beer campaign that went viral, the scaling of the business has not been without its challenges. During early events, Aaron was told by senior utility teams that he’s the guy putting them out of business!

Aaron is one of the leading entrepreneurs in this space, and we hope you enjoy his story as much as we did.

Enjoy the episode!

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

Building a future-proof utility in the desert with Dave Johnson | S6 Ep.1

Season 6 · Episode 1

Tuesday, July 18, 2023 • Duration 41:01

In this episode, Will and Tom are joined by Dave who gives context on Southern Nevada, providing water in the desert and meeting the needs of a population that booms from tourism and the attraction of Las Vegas.

As one of the Leading Utilities of the World, he discusses why they’re sharing lessons with like-minded water companies around the world on their 20-year demand management journey and also the long term, water resource strategy.

We also talk about grass, or turf, and the limiting of the Colorado river for the irrigation of non-functional turf, naturally refraining from breaking into the Tom Jones’ song, The green green grass of home.

And finally, Dave discusses an innovation on water footprinting with Southern Nevada’s tool being used to evaluate potential water use from incoming businesses.

Plus much much more! We hope you enjoy the episode!

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes.

We’re delighted you can join us on this voyage of discovery, as we journey down The Stream.Special thanks to this season's sponsor, .And our charity partner, .And thanks to our knowledge partners: , , , , , and .

Sustainability legend John Elkington on the triple bottom line | S5 Ep.10

Season 5 · Episode 10

Thursday, March 23, 2023 • Duration 38:23

We've been looking forward to this one...

This week, Will and Tom are joined by one of the founders of the sustainability movement, the great John Elkington.

A founding partner and chief pollinator at Volans, and also the co-founder of ENDS (Environmental Data Services), John talks about the triple bottom line (people, planet and prosperity) vision, and why this ended up being recalled and revised.

Plus, John talks about the joint responsibility of younger and older generations when it comes to sustainability.

And John takes an interest in Will’s model spitfire in his office, telling an awesome story of his father flying planes during the war.

Plus much, much more!

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes.

We’re delighted you can join us on this voyage of discovery, as we journey down The Stream.

Special thanks to this season's sponsor, .And our charity partner, .And thanks to our knowledge partners: , , , , , and .

Building the Netflix of beverages with Manuela Zoninsine | S5 Ep.9

Season 5 · Episode 9

Thursday, March 9, 2023 • Duration 45:47

This week on #TheStream, Will and Tom are joined by Manuela Zoninsine, CEO & Founder of Kadeya, a closed-loop water vending service powered by digitally-connected reusable water bottles and mini bottling stations.

Find out about Manuela’s early experience as a journalist, being based in China ahead of the Olympic Games and why this helped to harness her critical thinking.

Plus:

Manuela talks about the need to rethink hydration, particularly in workplaces around the world and the reason to couple this with increased data

The need to develop a business model to eliminate single-use plastics

And finally, Manuela talks about investment, how the multinationals are viewing potential disruption to their market and also scaling.

And much, much more! We hope you enjoy the episode.

Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes.

Water, whisky & Greta – realising water’s value with John Matthews | S5 Ep.8

Season 5 · Episode 8

Thursday, February 23, 2023 • Duration 44:50

This week, John Matthews, Executive Director at Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA), joins Will Sarni & Tom Freyberg to #TheStream to talk about his origin story as a butterfly biologist, work with the WWF and a life-changing trip to India where he was given a sobering case on the spiritual value of water.

Plus:

John discusses the founding of AGWA and what water resilience really means – way beyond the hard engineering
The upcoming UN Water Week in New York
How to get a whisky sponsorship for the podcast.

And, the three of them talk about popular narratives, such as: “climate change is the shark and water is the teeth.” However, as you’ll hear from John, this is a huge oversimplification, and he provides a suggested alternative!

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes.

From Wall Street to Water: Investment trends with Brendan Tierney | S5 Ep.7

Season 5 · Episode 7

Thursday, February 9, 2023 • Duration 36:12

In this week’s episode, Will and Tom were delighted to be joined by Brendan Tierney, Managing Director and Head of Global Water Practice at Raymond James.

He talks about his origin story: being attracted to Wall Street as an investment banker, before being made redundant and eventually joining Raymond James in 2016 to build out the water portfolio.

Plus, Brendan talks about:

The areas where he sees huge potential for further market activity, including digitalisation of water and water quality, and notable PFAS treatment, otherwise known as forever chemicals
The recent gargantuan, $7.5 billion merger between the two US water giants – Xylem and Evoqua
And what this could mean for the industry following integration.

And much, much more!

🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe to our channels to get alerts on the episodes.

Crafting culture in a digital start-up with Meena Sankaran | S5 Ep.6

Season 5 · Episode 6

Thursday, January 26, 2023 • Duration 40:18

This week, Will and Tom, are delighted to be joined by Meena Sankaran, Founder & CEO Ketos, a vertically integrated water quality and monitoring platform.

Meena talks about the importance of crafting a culture in this episode and the importance of maintaining the attitude of a start-up.

Plus hear about:

Meena's journey from humble beginnings in India where she learned the value of water before taking a one-way flight to the US to move up the ranks as an engineer
The challenges of starting her own business that Meena had to overcome battling against naysayers and critics
The task of raising $40 million in capital investment but how the pure play water investors initially closed the door, forcing her to look to impact and climate-tech investors
Meena talks openly about investment cycles and how the 18-24 months between investment rounds are not necessarily aligned with the buying cycles of the utility market
And how Meena purposefully built the strategy of the digital company to work across the utility, industry and agricultural sectors.

It was an absolute joy to have Meena on the podcast, a true passionate visionary who has built a company and culture that crosses industries and the water-energy-food nexus.

We know you will enjoy this episode!

Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at , and .

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