Inside CVC Encore: There's No Exit Strategy for the Water Planet: J. Carl Ganter on Supply Chain Risk, Desalination, and the CVC Opportunity

About this episode

The episode revisits a conversation with J. Carl Ganter about the risks associated with water supply and the opportunities in the CVC space.

In this Inside CVC Encore from Season 1, Episode 1, we revisit his conversation with J. Carl Ganter, founder and managing director of Circle of Blue and a veteran storyteller whose work spans National Geographic, network TV news, and NPR. The episode lands at a moment when desalination plants and water infrastructure across the Middle East are making headlines as targets in the Iran conflict, putting the systemic risks Carl warned about squarely in front of the boardroom. Carl frames water as...

People in this episode

Guest: J. Carl Ganter

Topics covered

• supply chain risk
• desalination
• water infrastructure
• CVC opportunity

Keywords

• water planet
• Iran conflict
• systemic risks

Mentioned in this episode

Products: desalination plants

Books & works: Inside CVC Encore: There's No Exit Strategy for the Water Planet, Inside CVC Encore

Places: the Middle East, Iran

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