Our Challenges
We´re looking for startups that have solutions to these challenges.
Water Stewardship
Help optimize the full water process across business operations and help improve water quality and availability in the surrounding communities to build a more water-secure world. We are looking for the following solutions:
Water Monitoring and Analysis
- Water quality monitoring/measurement specifically the availability or accessibility in watersheds (or water sources) to report progress and understand impact
- Easy to implement and affordable analytical monitoring for emerging contaminants at trace concentrations
- Analytical real time monitoring for rapid (in minutes) microbiological quantification and identification of viable organisms within a water matrix
- 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, river flows) and availability of water for production
- Reliable, low-cost, easy-to-use/implement, non-invasive technologies for measuring water at all points of consumption in our production facilities (ideally with data logging/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 for 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
- Data collection of current freshwater and marine water eutrophication attributable to our operations, with impact projections in upcoming years
- Identification of areas at high-risk of eutrophication, with scouting, development and adoption of low cost, scalable technologies / best practices for prevention and mitigation
Watershed Conservation and Stewardship
- Commercially viable investment approaches for watershed conservation projects
- More efficient and sustainable use of water in agriculture and irrigation, and tools to measure agricultural water use improvements
- 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 …)
- Solutions that capture, filter and reduce stormwater in manufacturing facilities
- 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
- Solutions to scale-up and reduce costs from reforestation and soil conservation practices
- Biomimicry solutions/technologies to capture, treat and preserve water
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 in cooling towers
- 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 with real time confirmation of treatment efficacy
- 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 way of external effluent export for new industrial purpose
- New, cost-effective ideas for effluent treatment and zero effluent discharge
- Waterless CO2 recovery systems and/or CO2 scrubber
- Water efficient filtration innovations that are more environmentally friendly
- Alternative refrigeration evaporation with reduced water consumption
- Efficient/automated Clean-Out-of-Place cleaning and sanitization
- 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
- Water reduction projects in can manufacturing, malting, and all vertical operations including Zero Liquid Discharge
