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Imagine H2O’s Consumer Innovations Program supports entrepreneurs and startups with promising water solutions for individuals.  

This opportunity broadly applies to innovations related to water efficiency and quality.  Examples include filtration, onsite reuse and recycling, efficient fixtures and appliances, outdoor irrigation, home leak detection, water usage monitoring tools and other residential or personal solutions.  The consumer market also represents an opportunity to deploy decentralized solutions in communities with stressed or non-existent water infrastructure and supplies.

Read the announcement about our finalists.

 

 

Competition Winners and Runners Up

 

 

 Pre-Revenue Track

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      

RUNNER UP

Led by a team of Haitian and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors, Dlo Haiti offers a market-based solution providing safe drinking water in Haiti at a price average Haitians can afford.  Dlo Haiti seeks to replace centralized water purification and delivery by truck with a decentralized approach to lower costs and improve water quality.

 

 

This stainless steel retrofit toilet flapper is designed to address a very basic, yet large, source of lost water. According to the American Water Association, one out of five toilets are leaking today because of faulty toilet flappers.

 

RUNNER UP

By matching the flow of water to lawn outlines, Innogation's SMARTRotor™ dramatically reduces water used for outdoor irrigation while providing up to 98% distribution uniformity.

 

 

 

 

 

A biomimicry and nanotechnology company that harvests water from the air, NBD Technologies employs materials science and chemical engineering innovations to create water from the air.

 

A provider of water on the go, ReFresh’s water distribution machines provide bottled water and accept used bottles for a partial refund making drinking water cheaper, more convenient, and more environmentally friendly.

 

WINNER

Leak Defense Alert combines an easy-to-install sensor and transmitter that automatically identifies home leaks and notifies the homeowner that there is an issue requiring attention - essentially creating a "smoke detector" for water.

 

 

 Early Revenue Track

 




 

 



 

The Jompy water boiler is a simple, easy to use device that allows the user to cook food and boil water simultaneously, so saving on fuel and time spent over an open fire. The Jompy will pasteurize contaminated water reducing the chance of water borne diseases such as diarrhea and cholera.

 

The HighSierra Showerhead combines a low-profile design that uses 40% less water and a flow control that maintain the feel and experience of a conventional showerhead even at varying pressures.

 

WINNER

Mitigating storm water through arched paving bricks, PaveDrain incorporates an arch design in the middle of an articulating concrete block to create an internal storage chamber that can be filled with storm-water runoff while simultaneously providing strength for heavy vehicular loads

 

A Path-to-Market Opportunity: Competition Highlights  
 
  • Over $200k USD in cash prizes and in-kind services awarded to the winning companies
     
  • All participants receive written feedback from a panel of investors, designers and market experts
     
  • Access to Imagine H2O's Accelerator, a program specifically designed for promising water businesses
     
  • Market visibility on World Water Day and at tradeshows including WaterSmart Innovations and WEFTEC
     
  • Corporate Sponsors include Wells Fargo, Autodesk, Cooley, Weber Shandwick and WEF

 


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