When I was twelve, I discovered that if I drank two or three glasses of water first thing in the morning, my whole day changed. I felt clear, energised, ready and since then, it's the first thing I do every morning. I loved tap water, simple as it was. Years later, in 2015, I moved to Mechelen in Flanders and suddenly I couldn't drink the tap water anymore. It just wasn't a pleasure. That confusion became my starting point: there was something about the water, but maybe something about me was changing too. That question is where my research really began.

I never wanted an intellectual understanding of water. I found the literature too chaotic, full of contradictions. So, I built my own approach: measuring vibratory levels with a pendulum, testing an apple fresh off the tree against one cut days earlier, learning to trust perception over concepts. That's why I call myself a self-taught researcher. What that work revealed is simple, but often forgotten: there is no life without water with vital characteristics, visible or deep inside our cells. In our modern, patriarchal, capitalist world, we've disconnected from that basic link and from each other. If we want a healthy, vibrant society, water has to sit at its centre, at least as important a criterion for every decision as carbon is today, maybe more.

Water, to me, is a means, not an aim. It's for life, for society, for people. What I discovered is that there are many initiatives around water: citizen initiatives, private associations, NGOs, governmental and international projects but they don't talk to each other. Researchers studying the quantum physics of water don't know the activists fighting megabasins in France or the effects of bottling companies like Nestlé and Coca-Cola on water sources. What can emerge, beyond any single project, is a collective narrative and a collective dynamic, coherence and synchronicity between different efforts, contributing to one broader vision instead of many disconnected ones. This naturally amplifies action, because consciousness is crucial, but it doesn't do anything by itself. Action is crucial, but it doesn't do anything by itself in the long term either. If you have action without consciousness, you have chaos, a spill of resources. If you have consciousness without action, you have disconnection. You need consciousness in action. So, our missions are to deepen awareness, support initiatives, and federate the most committed actors. We're also creating a foundation in Belgium, so that money can flow as fluidly as water in service of a lively and vibrant society.

It's the core of my vision that any company, any government and any individual answers to water before answering to profit. What would change first, without effort, is a culture of sufficiency, a culture of measure. Our monetary system runs on debt - 80 to 90% of the money in circulation doesn't really exist; it's virtual, created and then erased when debt is repaid. That illusion tells us resources are unlimited. Water reminds us of the opposite. You can't create virtual water. Water is the one thing every human actually needs to survive. Measuring against water instead of profit means measuring against something real and limited.