About Imagine H2O

Imagine H2O is a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire & empower people to solve water problems. Our vision is to turn water challenges into opportunities.
 

The Imagine H2O Prize & Incubator

We host prize competitions for water innovation including our 2009 Water Efficiency Prize,  2010 Water-Energy Nexus Prize and 2011 Wastewater Prize.  We offer not only cash prizes for the best ideas, but also an accelerator program to help competing entrepreneurs turn their plans into game-changing real-world solutions. Our program helps innovators identify problems that have social impact and major commercial market opportunities, chooses the most promising plans, and brings together world leaders in water business, government, and social enterprise to help our contestants turn ideas into self-funding, high impact solutions.
 

Join Imagine H2O's  global ecosystem for water innovation to learn more about the competition and connect with water innovators from around the world.


Impact

Our impact is direct - new solutions to key water problems, and systemic – developing the Silicon Valley for water, an ecosystem of stakeholders to the next great water innovations.

Why Are We Doing This?

The struggle for clean water is the challenge of our time. We’re entrepreneurs, so to us, that means it’s our greatest opportunity. Ever thought about where your water comes from? How much you use? Whether it will be there tomorrow when you turn on your tap? Over a billion people lack access to clean water. Right now. Even in the US, pollution, scarcity, and a crumbling system of pipes and plants threaten our water supply. Availability of clean water and sanitation will be the dominant issue of the coming decades, touching everything from human life, to health, to economics. We’re turning these problems into opportunities.

Hear the story of Imagine H2O…