Water Monitoring and Analysis
- Measuring and monitoring water quality or availability in watersheds (or water sources) to report progress and understand impact
- Techniques to assess water risk and predictive analytics for specific geographical locations
- Techniques to assess water status by integrating water source availability by region (aquifer data, rivers flows) and availability of water for production
- Reliable, low-cost, easy-to-use technologies for measuring water at all points of consumption in our production facilities (ideally with data transfer capabilities)
- Data collection of water consumption across supply and value chains. Ability to measure in real time (portable flow meters or indications) all water consumption by process.
- Data collection and measurement of water action programs to determine efficacy for wells and aquifers
- Real-time monitoring of static and dynamic levels of water wells with automated reporting of changes and prediction of the water availability vs production plans
- Technologies for easy calibration of flowmeters without dismantling installations or creating stops in production.
Watershed Conservation and Stewardship
- Commercially viable investment approaches for watershed conservation projects (proximity to current 100+ Partner operations is a plus)
- More efficient and sustainable use of water in agriculture and irrigation, and tools to measure agricultural water use improvements
- Creating and incentivizing corporate consortium approaches or new financing mechanisms for watershed conservation and management
- Solutions for retaining water in watershed soil
- Solutions for harvesting and scaling rainwater collection
- Cost effective water access, improved quality and/or sanitation service innovations for at-risk communities, especially those not connected to formal water infrastructure systems
- Innovative and scalable ways to have new water sources (air, soil, rain, trees …)
- Green infrastructure in manufacturing facilities. Green infrastructure refers to water management practices that capture, filter, and reduce stormwater.
- Nature-based solutions to improve ecosystem restoration at substantial scale
- Nature-based solutions or technologies to improve sewage treatment and/or reduce runoff and freshwater contaminations
Water Savings and Treatment in Manufacturing and Supply Chain
- Water reuse/recycling including ways to distribute treated effluent for shared local benefit (both urban and rural)
- Alternative cost efficient and reduced water consumption for washing returnable bottles
- Waterless cleaning and sanitization
- End-to-end, energy-efficient and low-cost wastewater treatment
- Compact and modular wastewater treatment solutions
- Solutions to incorporate independent treatment of sanitary discharges at the existing production facilities
- Dry cleaning for packaging lines
- New solutions that achieve higher energy efficiency or lower rejection rates of treated water (with or without using reverse osmosis (RO) technology)
- Disposal or transformation of the high salt concentration/brine solutions of RO/desalination (applications in remotely located areas particularly encouraged)
- Production sequencing to minimize line flushing/Clean-In-Place (CIP)/sterilization treatment cycles or replacements for chemical cleaning agents or processes that reduce water use throughout our process, especially CIP
- New, cost effective ideas for effluent treatment and zero effluent discharge
- Waterless CO2 recovery systems and/or CO2 scrubber
- Filtration innovations that are more environmentally-friendly, specifically in terms of water use/savings
- Alternative refrigeration evaporation with reduced water consumption
- Efficient/automated Clean-Out-of-Place cleaning and sanitization
- Alternative use cases for biogas generated by anaerobic reactors (outside production facility)
- Aeration system with lowest energy consumption and easy, inexpensive installation
- As a service models for water processes including water treatment plants (WTP), wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) and anaerobic biogas recovery etc.
- Monitoring systems (operational and analytical) for WTP and WWTP that allow for off-site management
- Analytics solutions for CIP compliance with inline micro result monitoring to improve CIP times
