A remarkable spring does not guarantee a water brand. Dr. Elena Berg speaks in Paris with musician Josef Salvat about the natural mineral water found on his mother’s working farm in the Australian outback. Their conversation examines Australian water rights, the history of profiting from water, the symbolism of bottled water, and the practical difficulty of building a fine water business across vast distances. Josef discusses packaging choices, transport costs, regulation, and the ethics of selling an essential resource as a premium experience. By the end, Elena explains that the project has been placed on hold because bottling and distribution remain costly and because they are still considering whether the water should be extracted at all. It is a candid study of water sustainability and the limits of ethical entrepreneurship.
Episode Guest: Josef Salvat
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Hosted by Elena Berg
Written and produced by Elena Berg and Clark Marchese
Audio Editing by Clark Marchese
Cover art by Sarah Glavan
Theme Music by Josef Salvat