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The Water Council is a global hub dedicated to solving critical water challenges by driving innovation in freshwater technology and advancing water stewardship. From our home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA – the most mature water technology hub in the world – we collaborate with businesses, utilities, NGOs, academia, government and global partners to establish an unparalleled network of water industry movers and shakers. We connect, convene and showcase our members around the globe, providing a full range of business development services and networking opportunities and the potential to collaborate with some of the world’s most prominent water innovators. Our work drives economic development and promotes solutions to address pressing challenges involving water quality and quantity. But water technology is just one side of the coin when it comes to preserving freshwater resources. We have also proved our expertise in water stewardship, connecting corporations of any size and industry with the resources they need to mitigate their water risk. The Water Council is committed to cultivating responsible stewardship of the world’s freshwater.

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11-50 employees

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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2009

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economic development, water stewardship, water technology, nonprofit, and innovation

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We had a great time last week with our member and partner Veolia North America during the Veolia Milwaukee Open Pickleball Tournament. We joined Veolia staff for a river cleanup near our headquarters on Wednesday and for a night of #pickleball playing and watching on Thursday. The Water Council and Veolia recently announced the launch of the Water & Wastewater Workforce Center in Milwaukee, and this year Veolia also named the wastewater treatment plant in Milwaukee its first Ecofactory in North America. They are part of what makes #Milwaukee the place #WhereWaterWorks!
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The 5th World Water Cluster Leaders Forum 2024 is underway at Korea International Water Week (KIWW) in Daegu, Republic of Korea. The Water Environment Federation is represented by Jamie Eichenberger, past president who presented the keynote address for this event, highlighting circular water economy and innovation. The event highlights the importance of discussion and collaboration amongst global water clusters to drive resilience. Groups represented include The Water Council, Catalan Water Partnership CWP, Korea Water Cluster (K-eco), Clean (Denmark), and the Korean Society on Water Environment (KSWE).
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Sustainability Executive ♦ Championing Innovation, Global Partnerships, and Entrepreneurship in Environmental Solutions ♦ Water Management Expert ♦ Aligns Technical Expertise with Business Needs
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We just wrapped up the Water Clusters Leaders Forum in Daegu, Korea. It was great to see old friends from Korea Water Partnership and past Forums like Jordi Cros Herrero and Water Environment Federation Past president Jamie Eichenberger, who carried the circular water economy banner across the globe. As Jordi said, “All water problems are global, but solutions are implemented locally.” That was a common theme in our panels as we discussed how our organizations in Spain (Catalan Water Partnership CWP), Denmark (Clean), Finland (ELY-keskus - Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment), Korea Water Partnership, Indonesia (T. Subekti), and the US (The Water Council) could help spread the knowledge and solutions through partnerships. These collaborations are crucial when companies are looking to bring solutions to a new area, with different regulatory and supply chain challenges. Not all the discussions were about municipal solutions - corporate water stewardship and the WAVE Verified program helped cover the global part of Jordi's global/local paradigm. In addition to the Forum, I was also able to squeeze in a resource recovery session that I was interested in at KIWW: Won Woo(Ben) Kang's presentation about bipolar electrodialysis (BPED) for chemical production using brine. Gotta love the circular economy approach of taking waste brine and using carbon capture to make sodium carbonate (soda ash) and calcium carbonate for cement, glass, and steel production. No conference in Asia would be complete without seeing a fun mascot on the exhibition floor, and thanks to the Korea Institute of Hydrological Survey (KIHS), this expo did not disappoint! As my time in Korea comes to a close, people asked me if I got to do any sightseeing. I replied with “Yes, 3 water resource recovery facilities in Seoul and Daejeon.” I know I’m a water nerd, because I was thrilled to go on tours with BKT and Tomorrow Water to see HydroThermal Carbonization (HTC) and Thermal Hydrolysis Process (THP) and Annamox facilities on my way to Daegu. Luckily, our gracious hosts at the City of Daegu and KWP took us to the Daegu 83 Tower to get a view of the beautiful cityscape of Daegu at night. I’ll tell my water friends about the WRRF tours and my non-water peeps about the Tower, and the wonderful Korean BBQ and Bibimbap. Thanks to the hosts at KWP and I look forward to the next big reunion in Chicago at #WEFTEC 2025.WooJae (Jason) Lee Heejin Kim Dean Amhaus Karen J. Frost Stacy Vogel Davis Matt Howard Fidan Karimova Laila Sukkariyyah E.F. Dongwoo Kim YuSeop Shim Sungpyo Kim Sungjune Kim
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Water-related risks are multiplying for all types of businesses in most regions globally, but confusion is holding back corporate #WaterStewardship. Lauren Kenyon Enright of SCS Global Services and Matt Howard, our VP of water stewardship, seek to clear up the confusion in their article, "The Current State of Water Stewardship." Key points include: 💧Water stewardship requires proactive long-term thinking. 💧 Logical entry points to water stewardship can occur at different levels: enterprise-wide, operational site, across the supply chain, and at a product-based level. 💧Water stewardship is a nexus issue with many co-benefits, such as protecting nature and enhancing biodiversity. 💧Companies of all sizes have an opportunity to set rigorous targets and goals — and to take decisive action to achieve those goals. https://ow.ly/7CUE50U6lZC
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Congratulations to our founding member A. O. Smith Corporation on the release of its 2024 Sustainability Report and especially the announcement of its first public water goal: annual water savings of 40 million gallons by 2030! A. O. Smith was one of the first companies to be verified by our WAVE: Water Stewardship Verified program. As part of its work, it created a roadmap to develop specific water stewardship goals, with the recent announcement as a result. To achieve its water savings, the company will focus on administrative controls, process optimization and water recycling technologies to advance its commitment to water stewardship. See A. O. Smith's Sustainability Report here: https://ow.ly/OvKS50U3yVKRead a case study of its WAVE participation here: https://ow.ly/iJpL50U3yVC #WaveVerified #waterstewardship #sustainability SCS Global Services Matt Howard Noelle Brigham, P.E., ENV SP Jim Stern
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Sustainability Executive ♦ Championing Innovation, Global Partnerships, and Entrepreneurship in Environmental Solutions ♦ Water Management Expert ♦ Aligns Technical Expertise with Business Needs
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I am preparing to present at the 5th annual Water Clusters Leaders Forum (WCLF) tomorrow in Daegu, Korea as part of Korea International Water Week (KIWW). I’ve presented at all of the previous Forums, virtually in 2020 and 2021, In Daegu in 2022, and at WEFTEC in Chicago in 2023, when I was representing the Water Environment Federation. This year, I have the honor of representing The Water Council as part of their partnership with The Korean Water Partnership. For the two days leading up to the KIWW, I have been blown away touring water resource recovery facilities with Korean company Tomorrow Water. For those of us on the water conference circuit, we sometimes don’t have time to think how impactful these gatherings actually are, and why we really participate in these convenings. This trip really gave me the chance to reflect on the connections and impact of the network of global water professionals. So, what are the threads tying these things together? One thread is that Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) is a leading innovative wastewater utility looking for new solutions. MMSD partners with The Water Council to run a Pilot Program to find technology solutions to actual problems (as opposed to solutions searching for a problem). The Water Council’s collaboration with the Korean Water Partnership sourced a potential solution from Tomorrow Water (Proteus biofiltration) for MMSD to pilot. The successful pilot was one of the many factors leading to MMSD’s announcement of a new $13 million R&D center under design to further expand their leadership and demonstrate new technologies under the guidance of MMSD’s Chief Research Officer Matt Magruder. Matt and his team were able to evaluate the Tomorrow Water installations at full scale plants throughout Korea. On this trip, I had the good fortune of being able to see the same installations of the Proteus technology, which combines physical filtration and biological treatment, allowing for primary and secondary treatment in the same tank. With my new friends Won Woo(Ben) Kang and E.F. Dongwoo Kim, I saw this at a water resource recovery facility that was fully underground with a public park on top of the plant – so cool. As I wandered through the facility, I found a piece of the filter media, a patented little x-shaped piece of plastic, that I took home. I kind of felt like Charlie Bucket in with a Willy Wonka everlasting gobstopper as I left the facility! So the point of this little story is that these events like WCLF and WEFTEC make the connections that directly lead to things like MMSD being able to work with The Water Council to have KWP identify proven technologies that could solve real problems in other countries. At these events, we are throwing the proverbial pebbles in the water and seeing the ripples and waves that come from them. Stacy Vogel Davis Dean Amhaus Karen J. Frost Fidan Karimova Laila Sukkariyyah HAYJUNG CHUNG

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