When Climate Hazards Collide

Podcast
15 min listen
September 26, 2025
In this episode

Climate change doesn’t just bring one disaster at a time, it stacks them: droughts then floods, heat then fire. These compounding shocks can turn small risks into major financial losses. In this episode, we explore how layered climate hazards are reshaping the bottled-water industry, what Nestlé’s 2024 water-quality scandal reveals about the future of safe drinking water and why investors can’t afford to look away. 

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