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S3 Ep3: Supersizing water's value with Ian Olson, McDonald's

Will Sarni

Aug 26, 2021
1 min

S3 Ep3: Supersizing water's value with Ian Olson, McDonald's

S3 Ep3 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE This week Ian Olson, the senior director of global sustainability at McDonald’s, joins Will and Tom to talk about his background in economics and as the global manager of supply chain sustainability at the Ford Motor Company, the lessons learned and what he brought to the fast-food giant, including learning to accept failure. Plus, Ian talks about a new partnership with WaterStart’s global pilot program to play a role in identifying,

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S3 Ep2: Creating the 50 litre home with Frantz Beznik

Will Sarni

Jul 15, 2021
1 min

S3 Ep2: Creating the 50 litre home with Frantz Beznik

S3 Ep2 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE This week, Frantz Beznik, Senior Director for Sustainable Innovation, Procter & Gamble and founder of the 50L Home Coalition, joins Will and Tom to talk about Frantz's inspiration behind the 50L Home Coalition after he witnessed Day Zero in Cape Town. Frantz also gives an insight into his philosophy of abundance, with his goal of making 50 litres feel like 500, the true impact of reducing water use can have and how he wants to make t

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S3 Ep1: Scaling a start-up on lead detection in water with Ari Kaufman (Owning your s**t)

Will Sarni

Jul 1, 2021
1 min

S3 Ep1: Scaling a start-up on lead detection in water with Ari Kaufman (Owning your s**t)

S3 Ep1 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE In this week’s episode, Will and Tom are joined by Ari Kaufman, Founder & CEO of Spout, who talks about his serial entrepreneur’s background of 25 years and why he decided to change track... Kaufman discusses his experience in the 10.10.10 programme – 10 CEOS facing 10 wicked problems to come up with a market solution in 10 days and why he decided to tackle the lead contamination challenge after hearing about the potential impact on

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Will Sarni

Jun 3, 2021
1 min

The Stream Season Two Recap!

"The Stream Season 2 Recap" To watch CLICK HERE This week, Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg take a look back at a few highlights from the last season, from digitally twinning a pub, to citizen science & paddleboarders, to the importance of catalytic communities and mental wellbeing, and of course Captain Planet. We hope you enjoy the episode! Season 3 here we come! Featuring: Sera Moon Buse, Alex Crowell, Iona Dobrescu, Fiona Regan, Mark Kaney, Tom Higley, Damian Wells #WickedWa

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S2 Ep10: Social Entrepreneurship [+SGDs] with Madeleine Bell

Will Sarni

May 20, 2021
1 min

S2 Ep10: Social Entrepreneurship [+SGDs] with Madeleine Bell

S2 Ep10 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE In this week’s episode Madeleine Bell, Head of Strategy and special projects at Desolenator, joins Will Sarni & Tom Freyberg to talk about what drew her to a water start-up and the role of social entrepreneurship. Plus, learn why Madeleine believes there is a need to bring in outsiders, a shared mission and vision with brewery giant Carlsberg, and Madeleine provides an update on a solar technology project that will provide water to

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S2 Ep9: Solving wicked problems with catalytic communities with Tom Higley

Will Sarni

May 6, 2021
1 min

S2 Ep9: Solving wicked problems with catalytic communities with Tom Higley

S2 Ep9 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE In this week’s episode, Tom Higley, serial entrepreneur and Founder & CEO of X Genesis, joins Will Sarni & Tom Freyberg to talk about why entrepreneurs are the key to solving wicked water problems. Plus, Tom explains the growing importance of catalytic communities and why Tom believes wicked problems can help entrepreneurs find the sweet spot between what they love, what they’re good at, what they can be paid for and what the world n

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S2 Ep 8: Calling time on water’s echo chamber with Alexander Crowell

Will Sarni

Apr 22, 2021
1 min

S2 Ep 8: Calling time on water’s echo chamber with Alexander Crowell

S2 Ep8 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE In this week’s episode, Alex Crowell, managing director of PureTerra Ventures, joins Will and Tom to talk about the company’s investment team that created a complete dossier on more than 1000 water technology companies globally. Plus, Alex tells us why he's concerned about the current lack of investment in water and why he thinks a grand experiment is needed to force people to value water. Alex also gives us his views on acquisitions

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S2 Ep 7: Racing to global water access with Eleanor Allen

Will Sarni

Apr 8, 2021
1 min

S2 Ep 7: Racing to global water access with Eleanor Allen

S2 Ep7 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE In this week’s episode, Eleanor Allen, CEO of the charity Water for People, joins Will Sarni & Tom Freyberg to talk about her ultra-cycling bug and latest adventure, Race Across the West, an epic 930-mile journey across desert and mountains in four days to raise awareness on the need for clean water. Plus, Eleanor gives us her origin story from working as an environmental consultant to heading up the global non-profit organisation, t

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S2 Ep 6: Rock 'n' roll and digital twins with Mark Kaney

Will Sarni

Mar 25, 2021
1 min

S2 Ep 6: Rock 'n' roll and digital twins with Mark Kaney

S2 Ep6 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE In this week’s episode, Mark Kaney, the director of asset management at Binnies, joins Will & Tom to talk about his journey as a semi-professional musician and how he reminisces over the human connections from live music experiences. Plus, listen as they discuss the good old fashioned British pub as the centre of communities and how Mark actually digitally twinned a pub for his team to meet and mingle online. Mark, Will and Tom cut t

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S2 Ep 5: Water. Paddleboarding. Innovation with Fiona Regan.

Will Sarni

Mar 11, 2021
1 min

S2 Ep 5: Water. Paddleboarding. Innovation with Fiona Regan.

S2 Ep5 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE In this week’s episode, Fiona Regan, a professor in chemistry at Dublin City University and director of the DCU Water Institute, joins Will & Tom to talk about how Fiona fell in love with water, found her purpose and wants to bring others on her journey. Plus, learn why fishermen & paddleboarders are key to the citizen science movement, the importance of not just more data on water quality, but actionable data, and how scaling up of

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S2 E4 Ep 4: Mental wellbeing and mountain biking with Damian Wells

Will Sarni

Feb 25, 2021
1 min

S2 E4 Ep 4: Mental wellbeing and mountain biking with Damian Wells

S2 Ep4 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE In this week’s episode, Damian Wells, Managing Director of Australian water utility Coliban Water, joins Will & Tom to talk about how Damian handled the company’s migration to working from home during Covid-19 and the importance of mental wellbeing. Plus, find out why Will & Tom may soon be applying for jobs at Coliban Water, and how a love for adventure got Damian into trouble, including a bad mountain biking accident that left him

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S2 Ep 3: Water footprints and Captain Planet with Ioana Dobrescu

Will Sarni

Feb 11, 2021
1 min

S2 Ep 3: Water footprints and Captain Planet with Ioana Dobrescu

S2 Ep3 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE Ioana Dobrescu, from Water Footprint Implementation, joins Will and Tom this week on The Stream to talk about how her childhood love for Captain Planet inspired a career in water. Plus, Ioana discusses the current global water footprint and the launch of a new water quality alliance involving Google. #WickedWater #abundancemindset #digitalwater #water #InnovativeWaterTechnologies #WaterSolutions #WillSarni #WaterFoundry #WaterFoundry

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S2 Ep2: Digitally mapping the world with Dr Chris Fisher

Will Sarni

Jan 28, 2021
1 min

S2 Ep2: Digitally mapping the world with Dr Chris Fisher

S2 Ep2 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE Dr Chris Fisher, Founder and Director of the Earth Archive and Archaeologist, joins Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg to discuss the critical work his company is doing using LiDAR and voxel mapping to create a digital version of our planet. Concerned with how rapidly the Earth is changing, Dr Fisher explains why it is vital we create an open-source copy that could prove to be invaluable in decades to come. #WickedWater #abundancemindset #d

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S2 Ep1: Hydrow's interactive water partnership with Sera Moon

Will Sarni

Jan 13, 2021
1 min

S2 Ep1: Hydrow's interactive water partnership with Sera Moon

S2 Ep1 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE era Moon, a Professional Rower at Hydrow, kicks off season two of the Stream with Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg to talk about an interactive partnership with Water.org. Plus, Will gets some rowing tips from Sera and she touches on the critical role Hydrow's online community can play in connecting people to water from their own homes. #WickedWater #abundancemindset #digitalwater #water #InnovativeWaterTechnologies #WaterSolutions #WillS

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Will Sarni

Dec 22, 2020
1 min

Ep18: Holiday Special

Episode 18 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE In a festive holiday special episode of The Stream, Will and Tom take a look back at some of the highlights during the first season. From startling statistics on sturgeons, the best way to braai, bow ties on treadmills and a spontaneous rendition of Santa Claus is Coming to Town on a ukulele... Sit back and enjoy the best of season one and keep an eye out for season two of The Stream coming Jan 2021. We’d like to give a shout ou

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Ep17: Sheds, Shirts and Sturgeons with Stuart Orr

Will Sarni

Dec 10, 2020
1 min

Ep17: Sheds, Shirts and Sturgeons with Stuart Orr

Episode 17 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE Stuart Orr, Practice Lead at Freshwater, WWF, joins Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg from the comfort of his shed for the series finale of The Stream to talk about innovative creative water partnerships around the globe. Plus, Stuart shines a light on the WWF rowing partnership, the biodiversity crisis, and why the water sector needs a kick up the backside. #WickedWater #abundancemindset #digitalwater #water #InnovativeWaterTechnologi

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Ep16: Innovation and Ukuleles in the Philippines with Yang Villa

Will Sarni

Nov 20, 2020
1 min

Ep16: Innovation and Ukuleles in the Philippines with Yang Villa

Episode 16 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE Yang Villa, the Head of the Philippines, Isle Utilities, sits down with Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg to discuss innovation in both the public and private sectors in the Philippines water market. Plus, Yang treats Will and Tom to a festive rendition of Santa Claus is Coming to Town on his ukulele... lele... #WickedWater #abundancemindset #digitalwater #water #InnovativeWaterTechnologies #WaterSolutions #WillSarni #WaterFoundry #Wat

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Ep15: Innovation, Unreasonable People & PFAS with Tali Harif

Will Sarni

Nov 12, 2020
1 min

Ep15: Innovation, Unreasonable People & PFAS with Tali Harif

Episode 15 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE Tali Harif, the Chief Commercial Officer at Puraffinity, joins Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg to talk about the importance of diversity in pushing through innovation, including most recently on PFAS. Also, Tali discusses how growing up in Israel shaped a career in startups, and how her experience in both the private and public sectors have given her an eye for innovation. #WickedWater #abundancemindset #digitalwater #water #Innovati

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Ep 14: Crowdfunding water innovations and chicken dinners with Lon Johnson

Will Sarni

Nov 2, 2020
1 min

Ep 14: Crowdfunding water innovations and chicken dinners with Lon Johnson

Episode 14 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE Lon Johnson, the founder & CEO of WaterWorks, joins Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg to talk about how his background in American politics helped him identify a new way to help increase online investment in innovative water projects. They discuss the increasing importance of community in a changing water world and how “chicken dinner fundraising” evolved into a digital operation. #WickedWater #abundancemindset #digitalwater #water #In

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Ep 13: Urban water innovation, dogs & TikTok with Kelly Trott

Will Sarni

Oct 16, 2020
1 min

Ep 13: Urban water innovation, dogs & TikTok with Kelly Trott

Episode 12 of "The Stream" To watch CLICK HERE Kelly Trott, the VP of deployment & impact for Imagine H2O, joins Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg to talk about the Urban Water Challenge and overall winner. Plus, Kelly reveals how her puppy become an overnight TikTok sensation, the wider use of social media and how it can be used to get people engaging with water. #WickedWater #abundancemindset #digitalwater #water #InnovativeWaterTechnologies #WaterSolutions #WillSarni #WaterFound

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