Your Future in Fresh Water Technology is Here

MATCHING FRESHWATER INNOVATORS TO OPPORTUNITIES

The Water Council designs a variety of programs to help students, researchers, entrepreneurs and professionals get to the next stage of development--from unproven ideas to commercial viability, from seed funding to visibility. The Water Tech Hub is your one-stop portal for all of The Water Council’s application-based competitions and challenges. It provides you a convenient hub for learning about and applying to a challenge to advance your freshwater technology. Then, through our global network of researchers, entrepreneurs, innovators and partners, we serve as the conduit between those with new ideas and the companies seeking new solutions. All that’s left to do to get growing is apply for one of our challenge opportunities.

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Fast track your emerging tech

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The Water Council’s BREW Accelerator is the world’s foremost water-focused early stage business accelerator. The BREW connects startups with resources, stimulates water-related innovation, and brings new, game-changing technologies to market in pursuit of real-world solutions to global water challenges. Entering its seventh year, startups from around the world compete for selection into the BREW Accelerator program.

Tech interests: Agriculture runoff, Emerging water tech, Water treatment, Water heating, Sensors, IoT, machine learning and artificial intelligence

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TECH CHALLENGE: Inline Sensors

Opening Soon

The Water Council is managing a Tech Challenge seeking innovative solutions for detecting water quality parameters inline at a pipe without the need for grab samples. Inline sensors or sensing methods are sought for key water quality analytes.

Tech interests: Metals, Microbiological Contaminants, Biological, Chemical, PFAS

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TECH CHALLENGE: AI for Pipe Networks and Systems

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The Water Council is managing a Tech Challenge seeking innovative solutions for operational aspects of piping systems using artificial intelligence or machine learning. The solutions may be complete systems, algorithms, or concepts by talented individuals with the focus on optimization of operation, condition assessment, conservation, leak detection, and water quality controls.

Tech interests: Plumbing systems in residential, commercial or industrial facilities, cooling water systems, Drinking water distribution, Wastewater collection, Water reuse distribution

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We would not have found this specific technology company without the help of The Water Council.
Bob Heideman
SVP Corporate Technology
A. O. Smith

The Water Council has created a really unique platform to accelerate water technology commercialization.
Dr. Junhong Chen
Program Director Engineering Research Centers Program
U.S. National Science Foundation

We really are a close community and are supportive of one another. The Water Council has been very helpful in our brand development efforts.
John Tillotson
CEO
Microbe Detectives, a BREW Graduate