Water Values Podcast Industrial Water Applications and Reuse with Gradiant Co-Founder and COO Prakash Govindan
Prakash Govindan, COO and Co-Founder of Gradiant, provides a phenomenal look at industrial water applications and reuse. Prakash describes a multitude of issues and uses relating to water in industrial settings. He does a great job putting water in context of business needs and political decision-making.
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- Prakash’s upbringing in the Chennai, India, and how it shaped his appreciation of water
- How Prakash earned his Ph.D. and became unemployable, so had to start a company
- How Prakash worked on and invented zero liquid discharge technologies at MIT
- How in Prakash’s words, Gradiant is a water company that solves societal problems
- How Gradiant facilitates lithium extraction and production, and PFAS destruction
- Gradiant’s involvement in industrial water reuse
- Prakash’s unique perspective on the intersection between water, geopolitics, and national security in the context of the semiconductor industry
- How water-intensive industries can flip a water rich area to water-stressed (see: Taiwan, where Prakash explains uses 60% of its water in the semiconductor industry)
- Water reuse in industrial applications and manufacturing processes
- Differences in developing water reuse solutions for greenfield and brownfield projects
- How Prakash tries to futureproof water solutions
- Why water is not a piece of the puzzle, it is the puzzle
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