Deadly Water with Ambassador Karl Hofmann

Sex, Body, and Soul

Kate Roberts

Education, Relationships, Sexuality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Ambassador Karl Hofmann has a 30 year career in global development, first as a career diplomat including US Ambassador for Togo and followed by 2 decades as President of NGO giant PSI. He now serves as CEO to HealthX Partners. We delve into how simply drinking water in many countries could be a death sentence and also why the west should care. We also discuss the state of affairs following the abolishment of USAID and its deadly effect on the world’s population.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sex, Body and Soul. I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the Body Agency, and on this show,
0:06.4	we talk about the marvel that is our bodies and souls, what they can do and what we need to thrive.
0:13.1	You out there, listen up. We have some pretty hard, but juicy conversations here, and you need to hear this.
0:19.5	Let's go. Our next guest, Ambassador Carl
0:23.3	Hoffman, has a 30-year career in global development, first as a career diplomat, including
0:29.3	U.S. Ambassador for Togo, and followed by two decades as president of NGO Giant Population
0:36.3	Services International, where we actually work together. He now serves as CEO to as president of NGO giant population services international,
0:37.9	where we actually work together.
0:39.7	He now serves as CEO to HealthX partners,
0:43.2	and on this show, we delve into
0:45.2	how simply drinking water in many countries around the world
0:49.4	could be a death sentence.
0:51.2	And also, why we in America and the West should be worried about that.
0:56.2	We also discussed the state of affairs following the abolishment of USAID and its effect on the
1:02.2	world's population. Carl, Karl, Karl Hoffman, welcome to the show. It's so great to see you.
1:09.2	It's great to see you, too, Kate.
1:12.3	Lovely to connect again with you.
1:15.3	Well, how many adventures have we had around the world?
1:17.1	Too many pounds.
1:21.7	So I think I've probably known you 20 years now, something like that.
1:25.8	You know, we must have first met, yeah, about 20 years ago.
1:30.6	Yeah, when we lured you into the development world from your very sophisticated ambassador ship. It was all to my pleasure, all to my pleasure.
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