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Back to EpisodesKen Berenger: Why Water Infrastructure Is Moving On-Chain
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Water infrastructure is quietly becoming one of the most interesting new real world asset classes in finance. In this episode of The Index Podcast, Ken Berenger, CEO of Water On Demand and Gridwater, breaks down how he built a real world asset platform that turns restaurant grease traps into a fully tokenizable, investable asset class, and why he believes water infrastructure is headed on-chain next.
From a $20 billion pitch to European family offices to a new tax law that just made water more attractive than real estate or energy, this conversation covers how Water On Demand is building the real world asset infrastructure behind the next wave of tokenization.
This is what happens when a stock broker from the '90s and a room full of crypto builders realize they built the exact same thing.
🚀 In this episode, we cover:
💧 How Ken built Water On Demand to turn water treatment into an investable asset class
🍟 Gridwater: the grease trap and FOG treatment business that became the pilot case for the whole model
🏛️ How a new tax law suddenly made water treatment more advantaged than real estate or energy
💰 Ken's story of pitching $20 billion in family office money in London, and the question that changed everything
🔗 Why Ken believes water infrastructure is headed on-chain within 24 months
🖥️ The AI boom's hidden water problem: why data centers need millions of gallons for cooling
🧩 How tokenizing micro-shares of infrastructure could open up asset investing to everyone
🔗 Follow & learn more:
🎙️ The Index Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@theindexpodcast
🔗 Ken Berenger (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-berenger-6a487a10/
🧑💻 Ken Berenger (X): https://x.com/KenBerenger
🌐 Water On Demand (Website): https://waterondemand.com
🌐 Gridwater (Website): https://gridwater.com
🐦 Water On Demand (X): https://x.com/waterondemand