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The Stream (with Will & Tom)Voices of Regeneration: Founders Driving InnovationThis special episode of The Stream takes you inside Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Festival 2025, where this year’s theme, Regeneration, inspired bold ideas and brilliant collaborations.Tom sits down with five founders and innovators in water, sustainability, and infrastructure. From 3D-printed concrete and microbial electrolysis cells to citizen-powered AI and leakage detection, these conversations shine a light on the future of the industry, and the minds building it.Featured guests:John Marsden, Origin Tech – Detecting and fixing leakage through satellitesNatalie Wadley, Changemaker3D – Reinventing concrete and enabling 3D printe...2025-07-251h 14
The Stream (with Will & Tom)Pickleball, political headwinds and reflecting on water ‘Legends’ – Brendan TierneyIn this episode, we closed the season with Brendan Tierney, the head of water and wastewater and Raymond James.Brendan joined us to catch up on a whole host of things, including reflecting on the latest season of The Stream and our conversations with water ‘Legends’. This conversation went many different directions, from views on the pickleball craze, through to current political headwinds and impact on water.What a great conversation to close out this season! 🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and subscribe...2025-05-0934 min
The Stream (with Will & Tom)California’s ‘water czar’ - Felicia Marcus on the LA fires and creating resilience in uncertain timesIn this latest episode we were delighted to welcome water policy expert Felicia Marcus, a fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration and former Chair of the State Water Resources Control Board.She was the chair of the board during the significant 2011-2017 drought, and shares some of the lessons learned.During the conversation she provides commentary on what California has done to drive water resilience, and also reflects on the LA fires and intersection with water.🔔 We hope you enjoy the episode and make sure to follow and sub...2025-04-2840 min
The Stream (with Will & Tom)From FIG to FIGS – Usha Rao-Monari on water economics and the need to make flexible financing workFormer UN Under-Secretary-General Usha Rao-Monari joins The Stream to explore why blended finance isn’t working for water, lessons from the energy sector, and how her FIGS model can drive change through finance, innovation, governance, and social equity. In this episode of The Stream podcast, Will and Tom are joined by Usha Rao-Monari — Senior Partner at Wellers Impact and Former Under-Secretary-General at the United Nations.Usha reflects on her 25+ year career across finance, infrastructure, and development, including her time as Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). We dive deep into why blended finan...2025-04-2645 min
The Stream (with Will & Tom)From FIG to FIGS – Usha Rao-Monari on water economics and the need to make flexible financing workFormer UN Under-Secretary-General Usha Rao-Monari joins The Stream to explore why blended finance isn’t working for water, lessons from the energy sector, and how her FIGS model can drive change through finance, innovation, governance, and social equity. In this episode of The Stream podcast, Will and Tom are joined by Usha Rao-Monari — Senior Partner at Wellers Impact and Former Under-Secretary-General at the United Nations.Usha reflects on her 25+ year career across finance, infrastructure, and development, including her time as Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). We dive deep into why blended finan...2025-04-1145 min
The Stream (with Will & Tom)Reasons for hope and climate optimism – Dr Peter Gleick on the three ages of waterWe were delighted to welcome Dr Peter Gleick, a leading scientist, innovator and communicator on water and climate issues.He founded the Pacific Institute in 1987 to be one of the most innovative, independent non-governmental research centres to advance solutions for the world’s most pressing water challenges.For the podcast we wanted to speak with him about his latest book entitled, The Three Ages of Water. The book covers Earth and humanity’s intricate relationship with water. From the prehistoric past where the cradles of civilisation were born around water, through to the current age and...2025-01-3054 min
The Stream (with Will & Tom)Building & selling a water software company for $1 billion – Colby Manwaring on life after the exitOn this episode of The Stream podcast, Will and Tom are joined by the brilliant Colby Manwaring, the former CEO of Innovyse, the chair of Envirosuite and the director of many other companies, who orchestrated a landmark $1 billion acquisition in the water technology sector. In this episode, he shares his entrepreneurial journey, from shifting from mechanical to civil engineering to building a successful software company. Learn valuable insights on:Building a High-Growth Tech Company: Discover Colby's strategies for scaling Innovyse and navigating the complexities of mergers and acquisitions.The Human Element of...2025-01-1651 min
The Stream (with Will & Tom)From ‘idealistic professor’ to water tech titan - Dr Andrew BenedekOn the third episode of The Stream, Will and Tom were delighted to welcome Dr Andrew Benedek. He was the very first winner of the Lee Kuan Yew Prize, cited as someone who has revolutionised conventional water treatment.For some people, founding, scaling and selling a global technology business once is enough. For Dr Benedek, he was just getting warmed up.It was in 1980 that he founded Zenon to help accelerate the reuse of water. After selling the business to GE for over $600 million, he went back into academia and took a position at the...2025-01-0256 min
The Stream (with Will & Tom)Water and digital convergence – hydroinformatics leader Professor Dragan SavićThis 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 mas...2024-12-1253 min
The Stream (with Will & Tom)22 years driving water industry analysis and intelligence - industry torchbearer Christopher GassonIt'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...2024-11-2852 min
The Stream (with Will & Tom)Investing into ag-tech innovations and farmland with agronomist Baptiste Tellier | The Stream with Will and TomIn the latest episode of the season, we were delighted to be joined by Baptiste Tellier, the managing director of Fall Line Capital who is focused on farm management, data analysis and deal sourcing.As a trained agronomist, Baptiste previously he oversaw the development and implementation of sustainable farming practices for over 200 potato farmers at Nestle. Before this, he was the former farm operations intern at The Mitchell Farm, conducting agronomic studies on corn yield.As he currently manages both farmland and venture activities, he provides a super interesting perspective, with Fall Line essentially building...2024-08-0139 min