Join us at Stockholm World Water Week August 23–27 for five sessions featuring entrepreneurs, investors, businesses, and issue area experts THE SWEDISH FISH TANK — GRAND CHAMPION EDITION Date: Monday, August 23 Time: 12pm PST Get to know previous finalists of the Urban Water Challenge who are returning to battle in The Swedish Fish Tank’s Champions Edition, a […]
Across the country, city councils are passing legislation to promote onsite water reuse, with San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin leading the way. As real estate owners and utilities face these new regulations, Epic’s success proves that the future of water and wastewater infrastructure is already being rebuilt — and it’s resilient, efficient, and pretty epic! Here, […]
Led by the Water GP in collaboration with Imagine H2O Asia, the Water Technology Access Partnership (WTAP) creates new pathways for utilities in the region to identify, test and deploy innovative solutions that accelerate progress towards SDG 6. Learn about the initiative and how it aims to make innovation relevant and accessible to its utility […]
Applications to Imagine H2O Asia’s accelerator and market access program are open! What is Imagine H2O Asia? Imagine H2O Asia helps promising water entrepreneurs build and scale solutions across the Asia-Pacific. Harnessing Imagine H2O’s decade of experience supporting 100+ startups, Imagine H2O Asia provides you with the partners, resources and insights to power your success. But […]
What do San Francisco and Chicago have in common? They’re home to organizations focused on ensuring that water technology entrepreneurs succeed. By creating a new water innovation pipeline from the West Coast to the Third Coast, Imagine H2O and Current will work together to support startups leveraging innovation to solve global water challenges. The goal […]
The Urban Water Challenge features the Ocean Sewage Alliance & Sanivation on World Oceans Day Last year on World Ocean Day, the Urban Water Challenge featured The Nature Conservancy’s Stephanie Wear to explain sewage pollution, the ocean sized problem no one was talking about. Since then, we have worked with Stephanie and 15 other water […]
During the spring 2021 semester, six students from University of Southern California’s Impact Investing Group (IIG) collaborated with Imagine H2O on a consulting project. Their scope of work focused on evaluating how Imagine H2O communicates the impact of the organization, the ecosystem and of the portfolio. They focused on our 2020 Impact Report, our portfolio […]
11 companies from 5 countries selected to participate in our 12th Accelerator Program Water is at the intersection of economics, health, climate change, and social justice — themes that are particularly top of mind given the events of 2020. For our 2021 cohort, we sought entrepreneurial solutions from around the world addressing safety, access, and efficiency challenges […]
Smart Monitoring from Pumps to Pipes Large-scale, centralized water and wastewater infrastructure struggle to meet the needs of fast-growing populations across the Asia-Pacific. As more informal settlements spring up in Asia’s megacities, utilities aren’t well resourced to expand network coverage. This is because building centralized systems incur high capital costs and are not always economically […]
Hear how three aerospace engineers are revolutionizing climate solutions in India From prolonged dry spells to devastating floods, cities around the world are increasingly facing climate whiplash. In 2019, Pune, an Indian city of more than five million residents, was hit by extreme droughts that left thousands without clean water. In 2020, flash floods rained […]