Decentralizing Water Treatment: OriginClear’s Innovative Solution with Riggs Eckelberry

 

Imagine a future where businesses not only meet their water needs sustainably but also play a crucial role in reshaping the landscape of water-scarce areas. Our guest Riggs Eckelberry returns to discuss the growing crisis in America’s water infrastructure and how his company OriginClear is pioneering decentralized solutions to overhaul outdated systems.

As cities across America struggle with aging and overloaded water systems, OriginClear provides innovative onsite water treatment technology to businesses. This takes the burden off municipal systems while recycling water. Riggs explains the reasons companies are rapidly adopting these systems, how they enable developments in water-scarce areas, and why they present a unique impact investment opportunity.

00:00 – Intro

05:20 – The neglected state of water infrastructure

07:20 – Failing systems and the risk of privatization

11:25 – Businesses take control with onsite treatment

17:20 – Solving housing shortages and development

25:20 – Applications across industries

31:05 – Breaking monopoly ushers innovation

 

 

Connect with Riggs!

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riggs/

Website:  https://www.originclear.com/


Be the Boss of Your Own Money and Own Your Future.

Connect with us and Discover Investment Strategies Designed to make a Difference.

Website: https://moneywithmission.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moneywithmission

 

Key Quotes:

“We are not advocating privatizing water supplies. Fresh water should remain governmental because it’s a trust.” – Riggs Eckelberry 

The days of government monopoly are fast fading away, and water is one of the last holdouts.” – Riggs Eckelberry 

Share:

Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
LinkedIn

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related Posts

ICYMI: Money Tales: Money’s Everywhere with Dr. Felecia Froe

In this ICYMI conversation, Dr. Felecia Froe sits down with Sandi Bragar and Cammie Doder on the Money Tales podcast to trace the money narrative that shaped her from childhood all the way to founding Money With Mission. She opens up about watching her mother stay in a domestic violence relationship for financial reasons, the credit card mistakes she made in medical school, and how she used the CASHFLOW 101 game to teach her own daughters about money years before most parents even start the conversation. Felecia also walks through the deal that changed everything: a patient named Jamie who challenged her to buy her first real estate property and removed all the risk in doing so.

Foundations #10: You’re Not Bad with Money

You’re not bad with money. In this Foundations episode, Dr. Felecia Froe speaks directly to every woman carrying the belief that she’s somehow failed at money, whether she’s avoided her finances for years, watched a high income never translate into confidence, or is still making sense of a setback that shook her trust in herself. Felecia reframes the whole story: what looks like carelessness is actually overwhelm, what looks like incapability is actually a lack of preparation, and what looks like personal failure is actually a systemic failure.

ICYMI: How to Invest When You’re Scared (Because Everyone Is) with Dr. Felecia Froe

Felecia Froe became a urologic surgeon after succeeding in medical school and urology residency. Somehow she knew this wasn’t the last thing she would ever do. Her mind as rewired about the idea of money after reading Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kyosaki. In this ICYMI conversation with Mary Katherine Johnson of Planet Wealth, Felecia traces her path buying 18 properties in two years, losing nearly everything in the 2008 crash, and rebuilding into a social impact investor who’s now running sober living homes and fighting food deserts. She gets honest about the fear that doesn’t fully go away, even after decades of deals, the mindset shift from working for money to making money work for you, and why she believes no woman should ever feel financially stuck in a job or relationship.