The Salty Water Podcast
Salty Water Podcast with Eric Jankel is a long-form interview podcast exploring the people, technologies, and decisions shaping the future of water. Hosted by Eric Jankel, the Salty Water Podcast features in-depth conversations with global leaders in desalination, water reuse, membrane technology, utilities, engineering, infrastructure development, policy, finance, and sustainability. The show goes beyond headlines to examine how real-world water challenges are actually solved. Water sits at the intersection of public health, climate resilience, energy, infrastructure, and economic growth. Yet many of the most important conversations about water happen behind closed doors, inside engineering firms, utilities, research institutions, and regulatory agencies. The Salty Water Podcast brings those conversations into the open. Each episode explores how major water projects are designed, financed, approved, built, operated, and maintained. Guests include engineers, scientists, utility executives, consultants, researchers, regulators, and project developers with decades of hands-on experience in the global water sector. Discussions focus on lessons learned, tradeoffs, innovation, and the realities facing water systems worldwide. Topics covered on the Salty Water Podcast with Eric Jankel include desalination technology, reverse osmosis and membrane systems, advanced water treatment, potable and non-potable reuse, brine management, infrastructure resilience, climate adaptation, emerging contaminants, energy efficiency, regulation, project delivery, and public trust in water systems. This podcast is not a marketing show and not a technical lecture series. It is a thoughtful, experience-driven conversation designed for professionals who want clarity, context, and practical insight. New episodes of the Salty Water Podcast with Eric Jankel are released every Friday and are available on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast platforms. Visit https://SaltyWaterPodcast to learn more about the show, find us on social media, and listen on your favorite podcast platform. Subscribe for expert insight, informed discussion, and real-world perspective on the future of water.
Episodes
Is America overlooking its most scalable water solution?
In this episode of the Salty Water Podcast with Eric Jankel, we explore why industrial water reuse may be the most under-leveraged strategy for strengthening U.S. water resilience.
Industry in the United States uses nearly four times more water than municipalities. Yet most federal incentives focus on municipal reuse. What would happen if policy shifted to encourage industria...
Is seawater just a source of drinking water… or is it one of the largest untapped mineral resources on Earth?
In this episode of the Salty Water Podcast with Eric Jankel, internationally recognized desalination expert Nikolay Voutchkov explains why brine — long considered waste — may actually hold a trillion-dollar opportunity.
For decades, desalin...
What does it really take to build water independence?
In this episode of the Salty Water Podcast with Eric Jankel, we sit down with Lisa Henthorn, a chemical engineer whose career spans Chevron, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, global desalination leadership at CH2M Hill, and executive roles in produced water and circular water innovation.
From early research and development to large-scale seawater desalination plants around the wor...
What does it take to double the value of a water company in less than four years?
In this episode of the Salty Water Podcast with Eric Jankel, Eric sits down with Henry Charrabé, CEO of Seven Seas Water, to unpack one of the most compelling growth and value creation stories in the global water sector.
What Do People Still Get Wrong About Desalination Technology? | Salty Water Podcast with Eric Jankel
Lessons from 40 Years Inside Desalination and Membrane Technology
Desalination is often misunderstood. It is called too expensive, too energy intensive, or unrealistic at scale. But much of what people believe about desalination technology is outdated, incomplete, or based on early failures rather than decades of real-world progress.
In this episode of the Salty Water Po...
Why does a technology we think of as “modern” actually date back thousands of years?
In this episode of the Salty Water Podcast with Eric Jankel, we explore why desalination is one of humanity’s oldest technologies, and how turning seawater into fresh water has shaped civilizations, public health, and the modern world.
This podcast episode features author and engineer Emilio Gabbrielli, whose book traces more than 7,000 years of de...
Water is invisible, until it is not.
In this episode of the Salty Water Podcast with Eric Jankel, host Eric Jankel sits down with Harry Cohen, Hillsborough County Commissioner and Chairman of Tampa Bay Water, to uncover the hidden infrastructure that quietly supports daily life for more than 2.6 million people across the Tampa Bay region.
From hurricanes and drought cycles to rapid population growth and environmental protection, th...
Salty Water Podcast with Eric Jankel is for decision-makers, innovators, and leaders shaping the future of water.
Each episode features in-depth conversations with experts across desalination, water reuse, water infrastructure, and water technology, offering practical insight into what is working, what is changing, and what is coming next, without hype, just real experience.
Hosted by Eric Jankel, a water industry executive with mo...
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