The Water Council (TWC) has opened its fall Tech Challenge with topics chosen by industry leaders to help solve challenges in the water sector. This session includes three topics – two dealing with PFAS and one dealing with pressurized pipes – along with a request for information about solutions addressing phosphorous loads. The semi-annual Tech…

Dean Amhaus, president and CEO of The Water Council, and Matt Howard, vice president of water stewardship, were interviewed by CNN Arabic in a story about water scarcity in the U.S. Click here to watch the feature.

In August 2022, a group of business, educational and community leaders met to discuss a vision for Wisconsin in 20 years. We see Wisconsin as the go-to place for manufacturers and utilities to find water and energy solutions in a changing environment. As solutions are discovered, we will shepherd them through the startup, scaling and commercialization process to quickly make them available to anyone who needs them. In short, Wisconsin will export water and energy resiliency solutions to the rest of the world.

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions (CIS), the nation’s leading urban greening/resilience leader, has announced the opening of a new regional office at the Global Water Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. CIS’s new office demonstrates the company’s strong commitment to the local community with leadership and staff that are local to its key public sector partners. Across the greater…

An Entrepreneurial Tale of Two Cities By Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council I had a chance to compare and contrast recently at two very different events: The first involved short “pitches” by entrepreneurs developing technologies to analyze, clean, treat and otherwise manage fresh water on a massive scale; the second centered around…

A recent ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) curtails the power of the EPA to address wetland protection and pollution, limiting its scope in control over water pollution through the Clean Water Act. With the already tenuous state of clean water globally, what does it all mean? What are the implications, near and long-term?…

MILWAUKEE — The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has committed to WAVE: Water Stewardship Verified, a program of The Water Council that helps organizations improve their water stewardship practices. WAVE, established in 2022, offers a continual improvement platform that gives participants clear pathways to improve water stewardship. The efforts are then independently verified by SCS Global Services….

During a fireside chat on the UW-Madison campus in March, a leader in the National Science Foundation’s newest and most hands-on program gave a tip of the hat to what he was seeing in his quick tour of Wisconsin. “There’s talent all around this state,” said Erwin Gianchandani of NSF’s Technology, Innovation and Partnerships directorate….

The Water Council and its partners have been awarded $1 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to plan a Regional Innovation Engine in eastern Wisconsin addressing water and energy resilience for manufacturers and utilities. The Water Council applied for the two-year grant with its lead partners MKE Tech Hub Coalition, Wisconsin Technology Council,…