Water Expert Interview Series

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The Water Network is about sharing knowledge and helping the Water Community come together, strengthening professionals ties and helping solve the world's water crisis.

We wish to promote innovative technology, projects, initiatives etc related to water. To best do that we interview EXPERTS from the water sector who are involved in projects which can change the water sector’s present face and can inspire other people.
 

Our past expert  interviews are listed here:

Rebecca Singer , Manager Resource Recovery, Department of Natural Resources at King County , Seattle shares insights about the future- focused utility’s successes in water resource recovery, and the future of sustainable water supply.

Gary Revoir, Vice President at Tetra Tech. Shares insights on success metrics for recycled water, implementation challenges, shifting public perception and Tetra Tech’s solutions and contributions to the future of water reuse and recycling. November 2018.

Reinhard Huebner - Investment Manager at SKion.
He talks about the current situation of investments in the water sector, his process for selecting investments and strong risk-adjusted returns.

Netanel Raisch -   CEO at Lishtot.
He talks about state-of-the-art sensors that detect changes in electric fields in water. When water has contaminants like heavy metals, chemicals, or even bacteria, the signals sensors pick up become distorted the device lets you know water is unsafe to drink.

Angus Webb - quantitative ecologist in the Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources group within the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne.
He talks about how providing water for the environment is not just about using science to work out how much water is needed by the organisms in a river; we also need policy experts and lawyers who can provide the legislative frameworks to allow this; we need social researchers who can understand the impacts on human societies of returning water to the environment; we need economists who can understand how the value of water changes through different climate cycles and regulatory frameworks; and finally we need engineers and infrastructure specialists who can actually make the flows happen.

Steven Davis -  Steven Davis, the Vice President of Digital Services at Organica Water.
He talks about wastewater treatment, comparing traditional WTPs and Organica’s water reclamation gardens, pointing out the advantages of living next to a green house rather than a smelly WTP.

Ravid Levy -  Fluence VP Technology.
He talks about the future of the water and wastewater market as he introduces us to containerized “plug and play” NIROBOX™ desalination plants and MABR technology which saves the incredible 90% energy in comparison to conventional treatment plants. 

Serge Pittet -  Serge Pittet, the General Manager of the Race for Water Foundation.
He talks about the dangers of plastic pollution the oceans, how we can prevent it and the possibilities of used plastic applications to avoid litter. 

Jack Sim - Jack Sim is the founder of multiple successful businesses, among which is the World Toilet Organization.
He has dedicated himself to promoting sanitation and clean, safe toilets and is the founder of The World Toilet Day - November 19th.  

Parag Agarwal -  Parag Agarwal is the founder and CMD of JanaJal.
He talks about his water ATM technology. 

Sergio and Luca Gamberini - Sergio Gamberini is the President of the Ocean Reef Group and Luca Gamberini is the Marketing Manager.
They talk about their underwater garden - Nemo's garden.  

Ng Wun Jern - Executive Director of Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI) and Professor, Environmental Engineering in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Nanyang Technological University.
He talks about water research at NEWRI, water management and research about bioreductive processes. 

Charlie Madden - The owner of Boatman.
He is a retired pensioner who talks about his sustainable desalination technologies..

Erika Zarate Torres - GSI Switzerland Regional Director.
She talks about the water footprint and Good Stuff International's Geographic Agricultural Water Footprint Calculator. 

Grant Gibbs - Executive Director of Hippo Roller.
He talks about the Hippo Roller and how it provides water access to people in rural African areas. 

Philip Saumweber - Chairman & CEO of Sundrop Farms.
He talks about applying desalination and hydroponics for Australian tomato farms. 

Corey Williams - President and CEO of Optimatics.
He talks about Optimatics' metaheuristic optimization software for utilities and consulting engineering firms for infrastructure planning.

Rodney Herrington -  CEO of Aqua Research.
He talks about water treatment technologies. 

Sid Vollebregt -  Managing Director of  Elemental Water Makers.
He talks about his innovative desalination technology by pressurised reverse osmosis. 

Mayank Midha -  Sanitation Entrepreneur, winner of the Sanitation Innovation Accelerator 2016 award.
Talking about WASH and the indestructible toilets he constructed.

Lauren Guy -  CTO & Co- Founder of Utilis Ltd.
Talking about leakage detection. 

Peter Petersen -  talking about his vision to start a CoP for water treatment plant operator on TWN. 

Riggs Eckelberry -  CEO and president of the OriginClear company, a pure technology company.
Talks about his company vision and new technology in development. 

Nikolay Voutchkov - President of the Water Globe Consulting.
He talks about desalination technology.

Mario Schirmer - The group leader of hydrogeology at EAWAG (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology).
He talks about river restoration.

William Sarni - Director and practice leader, water strategy, Social Impact Services, Deloitte Consulting LLP. 
Will leads the water strategy practice for the Social Impact Consulting Practice, a commercial consulting business within Deloitte Consulting. Will is talking about  business risks and what influence does water have on businesses today.

Annemiek Jenniskens -  Executive Director at Women for Water Partnership.
She talks about the role of women in water sector.

Stan Bronson -   Executive Director of Florida Earth Foundation.
Stan talks about vision and the mission of the Foundation and how the foundation is helping young water professionals to help their communities. 

Prof. Noam Weisbrod -  Director of  Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research.
He talks about Zuckerberg Institute 's efforts to help the reserch of countriees which do not have clean water.

Douglas Woodring  -  co-founder of the Ocean Recovery Alliance and the founder of the Plasticity Forum.
He talks about how the oceans could be made pollution free and how the pollution could be stopped at the point of generation. 

Anne-Cecile Turner -  director of the Race for Water Foundation with over 20 years of experience in the areas of marketing, sponsorship and management.
She is working on a project with the goal to stop water plastic pollution and to create new sources of income for the people most affected by pollution.

Paul Castle  -  Communications Manager at the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture since 2010.
He explains the work Syngenta foundation is undertaking in developing world for the uplift of Agriculture sector.

Dr. David Lloyd Owen  -  25 years of experience in water & wastewater policy, company and market analysis.
He is currently the Managing Director of Ensaviger and possess the global understanding of water & sanitation technology and private sector approaches.

Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak  -  one of the most influential people when it comes to sanitation. Dr. Pathak is a great humanist and social reformer of contemporary India.
He provided us with some exciting information and facts about water and sanitation domain in a developing country.

Prof. Ashantha Goonetilleke  -  TWN - Impact Award Winner for the year 2015 for his contribution to our vision of bringing the world’s water professionals on one platform and sharing water knowledge. He shares his vision and motivation behind contributing to TWN and sharing knowledge.

Stuart Orr is in WWF since 2006 and works with the private sector on a range of water-related activities, from water footprint to public policy engagement.
He gave us some insight on what WWF is doing right now regarding water issues.

Tim Harper  -  CEO of G2O Water and a world renowned technology entrepreneur.
He talked about the use of graphene in the water treatment industry and graphene membranes as an innovative new water treatment method.

Prof. Arjen Hoekstra  -  a Professor in Water Management at the University of Twente, the Netherlands and the founder of the Water Footprint Network.
He is the creator of the water footprint concept. He explained the water footprint (WF) and virtual water concept in his brief interview.

Dr. Jennifer Pagan  -  CTO of Aquisense is an experienced technical leader with a proven track record in new product development, intellectual property development and project management. She talks about AquiSense’s next generation disinfection solutions using a combination of patented technology.

Dr. Valentina Lazarova  is an international expert with over 30 years of research and practical experience in the field of Environmental Engineering. Dr. Lazarova shares her expert opinion on wastewater reuse.

Late Dr. Annette Johnson  -  was a senior scientist at EAWAG. She was the coordinator of the Water Resource Quality (WRQ) project.
Our team met her at EAWAG and interviewed her about the problem of geogenic contamination, the WRQ project and about some of the major products developed through this interdisciplinary research project.

Prof. Mario Schirmer  -  the group leader of hydrogeology at EAWAG (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Switzerland.
In this Interview, Prof. Schirmer gives an introduction to a sample restoration project at the Chriesbach river in Dü Bendorf, Switzerland to explain the features of a restored river.

Prof. Eric Wood  is famous for his work in hydrology, extending into meteorology and climate science, he developed spatially distributed hydrologic modelling, which included the handling of energy, as well as moisture transfer dynamics at the land surface. Prof. Wood talks about his research group's global drought monitoring system  and its applications.

Ms. Riccarda Engi -  the public relations officer at the Zürich Water Supply Office.
Talks about the various treatment methods applied before supplying drinking water and the monitoring steps followed to check the quality of the drinking water.

Prof. Asit K. Biswas  -  one of the world’s leading authorities on water and environment. He is a co-founder of the Third World Center for Water Management, Mexico, and currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore.
He shares his opinions on challenging issues in policy making in the water sector, particularly in the developing countries.

Dr. Kamal Kar -  the founder of CLTS organisation describes an innovative approach to empowering communities to completely eliminate open defecation (OD).
He focuses on collective hygiene behavior change stimulated by facilitators from within or outside the community.

Dr. Sudhakar M. Rao  -  a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Associate Faculty, Center for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore explains more about his research team's latest work, on the creation of Eco- friendly toilets by using permeable reactive barriers.

Dr. Martin Elsner  -  group leader of Environment isotope chemistry, Institute of Groundwater ecology at the Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich talks about Hydraulic fracturing or fracking and its effects on groundwater contamination.

Dr. Jean Fried  -  Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg, France, Expert-Consultant at the European Commission in Brussels and President of the European Institute for Water, and now Project Scientist at the University of California. He discusses International Transboundary water resource management.

Celeste Cantú -  General Manager for the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority ( SAWPA).
Talks about the new vision of sustainability for the Santa Ana River Watershed and more about SAWPA's initiatives.

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