Remarkable Year for Water & The Water Council – The Water Council
Summary
The Engine will align these resources while ensuring the area offers a strong innovation pipeline and diverse, trained workforce to identify needs and quickly move solutions from the laboratory to the factory floor.Weve spent the six months since receiving the award holding informational sessions and connecting with potential partners and supporters. With a strong leadership team in place, in 2024 we will roll up our sleeves in building the Engine and tackling a wide range of initiatives that encompass use-inspired research, workforce, entrepreneurs, investor and economic development, and diversity and inclusion. We are grateful to our sponsors, Beckhoff Automation, Xylem and Thales Water Advisors.Our fall Tech Challenge yielded a record-setting crop of solutions coming from eight countries on the topics of PFAS remediation and mitigation and structural analysis of pressurized pipes. We also conducted a request for proposals on behalf of the Green Lake Association seeking solutions for phosphorus overloading, with more than 20 responses an encouraging result.Our groundbreaking WAVE: Water Stewardship Verified program showed strong growth in its second year. We welcomed several new tenants to our headquarters at the Global Water Center this year, including Corvias Infrastructure Solutions (CIS), ECT of France and Pipesonic of Canada.