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Utilities Are Careful for a Reason. New York Built a Way In.
The largest water utility in the country has to be careful with what it adopts. The Environmental Tech Lab is how startups get to test inside it anyway. Applications close October 23.
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A Trillion Dollars Hiding in Plain Sight, with Burnt Island's Tom Ferguson
Water had no dedicated seed fund until 2020. Tom Ferguson on the S-curve, $11B in 2025 exits, and what running the first water VC actually costs.
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Why Water Can Never Be Organic, with Loonen's Clara Sieg
USDA Organic only certifies what's grown, and water isn't grown. Clara Sieg on sourcing, treatment, and what actually separates one bottle from another.
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Water Is a Soup: What's Really in Your Tap Water with Zach Hamilton
It still contains things the EPA has no mandate to remove. Zach Hamilton on PFAS, reverse osmosis, and why filtration has to happen at your tap.
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Alec Ajnsztajn on Destroying PFAS, Not Just Filtering It
Materials scientist Alec Ajnsztajn on CoFlux, the reactor that destroys PFAS forever chemicals into fluoride and CO2, instead of just capturing them.
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Why the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Turns Green
A pool chemistry expert explains why the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool keeps turning green, and what its 1920s design got fundamentally wrong.
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Newsha Ajami on AI Data Centers and Water
Stanford water expert Newsha Ajami on why AI data centers strain local water, a US national water strategy, and water's hidden role in the economy.
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Robert Strand on Cinema, PFAS, and Water Policy
Robert Strand explains how the World Water Film Festival uses cinema to drive water policy, fight PFAS contamination, and pursue UN Water partnership status.
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Cold Fusion, Deuterium, and the Future of Water: Pure Water Northwest's Cydian Kauffman
Pure Water Northwest's Cydian Kauffman on why power grid failures threaten clean water, and how cold fusion could turn seawater into a combined energy and drinking water source.
