Liquid Assets
by Ravi Kurani
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Rebuilding America's Water: A D-Minus Grade and a $1 Trillion Bill
Rebuilding America's Water: A D-Minus Grade and a $1 Trillion Bill
About this podcast
From policy to profit, Liquid Assets uncovers the business and technological implications of water in a changing world.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 68 episodes
- Rebuilding America's Water: A D-Minus Grade and a $1 Trillion Bill · 38 minThe American Society of Civil Engineers grades U.S. water infrastructure a D-minus. Kevin Gast, co-founder, CEO and chairman of VVater, puts the bill for just maintaining it at…
- Utilities Are Careful for a Reason. New York Built a Way In. · 50 minNew York City's Department of Environmental Protection moves 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to more than 9.6 million people, and about 95 percent of it arrives by…
- Water Is a Trillion-Dollar Industry Hiding in Plain Sight | Tom Ferguson, Burnt Island Ventures · 1 h 13 minTom Ferguson runs Burnt Island Ventures, the first venture fund dedicated entirely to water. In this conversation he lays out the investing case for a $1.6 trillion market most…
- Clara Sieg (Loonen): Water Can't Be Organic, and Conventional Treatment Makes It Worse · 32 minThe USDA Organic certification launched in 2002 and water will never qualify for it. Not because of a loophole, but because water isn't grown. That single fact sits at the center…
- Zach Hamilton: What's Really in Your Tap Water and Why PFAS Break All the Rules · 39 minYour tap water passed every government test this morning, and it still contains contaminants the EPA has no mandate to remove. Zach Hamilton built 20 prototype reverse osmosis…
- Alec Ajnsztajn: The Reactor That Destroys PFAS Instead of Just Capturing It · 56 minBetween 97 and 99 percent of all humans have measurable levels of PFAS in their blood. Every major watershed on Earth has tested positive, including the Arctic and Antarctica…
- Terry Arko: Why the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Keeps Turning Green · 34 minThe Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been turning green since the 1920s, and the reason is baked into its original design. The pool stretches roughly a third of a mile, sits…
- Why AI Data Centers Have a Water Problem: Stanford's Newsha Ajami · 44 minEvery time you ask ChatGPT a question, a data center somewhere uses water to cool its servers. Most people have no idea, and neither do the utilities supplying that water. Newsha…
- Robert Strand: How a Film Festival Builds Political Will for Global Water Policy · 35 minA film festival launched because one filmmaker couldn't find a place to submit his short about pharmaceutical pollution in New York City's water supply is now pursuing official…
- Cydian Kauffman: Cold Fusion, Deuterium, and the Future of Water · 31 minOne cubic meter of seawater holds enough deuterium to yield energy equivalent to 300 barrels of oil, and cold fusion may be the key to unlocking it. Cydian Kauffman, founder of…
- From Uganda to Northeastern: How a Student Engineer Is Building Clean Water Access for 4,000 People · 32 minWhat does it actually take to do charity work that lasts? Ravi Kurani sits down with Dhwani Bhatt, a fourth-year chemical engineering student at Northeastern University and…
- He Scaled a $500M Product. His Advice for Water Tech? Slow Down · 34 minA working prototype means nothing if you can't manufacture it at scale. Brad Augustine — VP of Hardware Engineering at Inspiren, former VP of Hardware at Lululemon — is the…
- Plantd's Josh Dorfman: Building Homes From Grass, Not Trees · 39 minRavi Kurani sits down with Josh Dorfman, CEO and host of Supercool, to trace his journey from sustainable furniture startups to co-founding Plantd, a carbon-negative building…
- Harvesting Thin Air: The End of "Free" Water in Las Vegas · 35 minRavi Kurani sits down with Rich Sloan, CEO of WAVR Technologies, to discuss a sobering reality: the era of abundant, subsidized water is officially over. From the "bathtub rings"…
- Beyond the Flush: Using Particle Accelerators and ‘Bugs’ to Save Millions · 35 minMost of us don’t think twice about what happens after we flush, but Jay Bernas spends every waking hour thinking about it. As the CEO of the Hampton Roads Sanitation District…
- Xylem’s Sivan Zamir: The "Silver Tsunami" & The Thirsty Cloud · 37 minSivan Zamir is the VP of Innovation & Venture at Xylem, a Fortune 500 leader in water technology. In this episode, Ravi Kurani and Sivan pulls back the curtain on the massive…
- Bottling the Breath of the Amazon · 34 minWould you swap your fine wine for a bottle of water? In this episode, Ravi Kurani sits down with Ana Livi, Partner at O Amazon Air Water, to discuss a water source you’ve likely…
- Net Zero is Not a Burden: AI & Smart Water with Xylem · 38 minIs climate mitigation just an expensive burden for water utilities? Alexis de Kerchove (Senior Director, Client Sustainability at Xylem) argues the opposite: the path to Net Zero…
- The Trillion-Dollar Toxin: Navigating the New Regulations on PFAS · 37 minIs there a safe level of "forever chemicals" in your water? PFAS are everywhere: from the non-stick pans in your kitchen to the contact lenses in your eyes, and even 92% of…
- Turning 50 Liters into 500: Rethinking How We Use Water · 39 minRavi Kurani sits down with Gregory Holliday, Director of the 50 Liter Home Coalition, to explore how global brands and cities are redesigning the way we live — creating homes…
