S5E2 - How to Systemically drive Money into Water and escape Global Water Stupidity - a podcast by Antoine Walter
from 2022-04-13T03:00
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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