The WaterRising Institute, in collaboration with The Female Quotient, have launched The WaterWoman Project, a first-of-its-kind movement bringing together leaders in water resource management, water intelligence technologies, and watershed communities to provide leaders of Fortune 100 companies the platform to grow capacities and the partnerships needed to reach water resilience by 2030.
The project aims to leverage the power of branding towards advancing equality for women and water resilience at watershed scale through culture & behavioral change within Industry Partner companies.
“A resilient world by 2030 is a world where human beings and the planet find a balance in which all thrive and survive.”
– Deputy Secretary General UN Amina Mohammed
WaterRising Institute
The WaterRising Institute Women-led nonprofit advancing water intelligence projects in coastal communities through private, public and philanthropy partnership.
The planet’s “water cycle” is changing rapidly due to climate change, we must be able to respond urgently to the growing risks, placing water at the center of their policy and investment agendas. Innovation to advance water intelligence infrastructure along with leadership development with adaptive policies and measures is a critical component for all resilient infrastructure ecosystem projects.
We will achieve this through innovation, investment partnerships and water literacy. Through our strong partnerships with academia, organizations (public, private, and philanthropic), and community scientists, we create a network of tools, technologies and people to solve current and emerging water quality threats, in the Great Lakes region initially, positively influencing water sources nationally and globally, in the longer term.
WaterRising Institute goal is for Detroit to become the global center of Water Intelligence Innovation.
Water Resilience is essential to business performance and sustainability. While some corporate water stewardship progress has been made, these strides are not moving quickly and often reflect superficial activity without real impact.We must infuse behavioral change (information, control and motivation) into the corporate culture in order to embrace transformational water stewardship.
Transformational actions are needed to address our most pressing water challenges
1-Moving beyond risk mitigation to understanding the growth potential of transformational water stewardship. 2- Working together, across silos and with gender parity, to create business ecosystems the produce collective action
We must infuse behavioral change (information, control and motivation) into the corporate culture in order to embrace transformational water stewardship.
Transformational actions are needed to address our most pressing water challenges
2- Working together, across silos and with gender parity, to create business ecosystems the produce collective action
Our Mission
Advancing Water Intelligence Partnership While Creating Gender Parity in Water Resources Management
OBJECTIVES
The WaterRising Institute identifies 6 key objectives relating to water quality issues in global coastal communities .
DEVELOPING NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS
Climate solutions grounded in science are critical to achieving the fundamental systems change to meet the goals of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
EVALUATING WATER INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY
Acting as leaders in identifying and evaluating the best technologies between industries and governments regarding water quality issues.
SOLUTION DRIVEN
Bringing together all the key stakeholders to work together with a solutions mindset (we are not an advocacy group).
INNOVATION HUB
Using the Great Lakes and Detroit’s manufacturing and innovation capability as the hub for proving concepts and establishing quality leadership.
LEVERAGING CAPABILITIES
Scaling in the US and internationally by leveraging our capabilities, expertise, and lessons learned, and then adapting/sharing them across regions and cultures.
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Developing compelling new technologies to replace outdated and expensive water testing and monitoring methods.