Great Lakes Protection Fund Lauds Pioneering Efforts to Improve Water Quality MILWAUKEE (May 20, 2019) – The Water Council was named a winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Leadership Awards for Water Technology Innovation. The Great Lakes Protection Fund today named six organizations from the U.S. and Canada as recipients of the award, which highlights…

MILWAUKEE (April 24, 2019) – The Water Council, together with founding sponsors A. O. Smith Corporation, Badger Meter and Zurn Industries, LLC, a Rexnord company, today announced the first round of Tech Challenge winners, finalists and honorable mentions. The Tech Challenge is designed to identify cutting-edge freshwater technologies and ideas with a high potential for…

Global companies A. O. Smith Corporation, Badger Meter and Zurn Industries sponsor first round of the Tech Challenge Initiative Milwaukee, Wisconsin – Nov 1 – The Water Council today announced the first round of the Tech Challenge,  a new, international competition designed to identify cutting-edge freshwater technologies and ideas with high potential for commercialization or implementation….

Wisconsin’s once-mighty industrial powerhouse is reinventing itself as a water tech hub Posted by Dan Simmons from U.S. News on August 22, 2018 MILWAUKEE — MOE MUKIIBI has seen the world: childhood in Uganda, graduate school in Arizona, Houston after that. His water expertise has made him a global name in the field, called upon to help address…

Milwaukee, Wisconsin – July 25, 2018 – A new report from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program argues that initiatives to support and grow industry clusters remain a potentially powerful strategy to jumpstart local economic growth, but only if certain market and civic fundamentals are in place. The report, Rethinking cluster initiatives, by Ryan Donahue, Brookings fellow Joseph Parilla, and…

SCS GLOBAL SERVICES INDEPENDENTLY CONFIRMS FACILITIES’ CONFORMANCE TO AWS STANDARD EMERYVILLE, CA, June 25, 2018 — SCS Global Services (SCS), a leading international third-party certifier of environmental claims, has certified that MillerCoors Milwaukee Brewery and the Global Water Center conform with the requirements of the Alliance for Water Stewardship International Water Stewardship Standard (AWS Standard), the…

Milwaukee harnessed technology, innovation and a prime lakeside location to become a world leader in the $483 billion water industry. Here’s how. Posted by Nicole Haase from Livability on June 7, 2018 The greater Milwaukee region has always been home to companies that relied on water to operate and grow their business. In the early days, it…

Milwaukee, WI – Oct 3, 2017 – The continued high volume of inquiries for office and research space within Milwaukee’s Global Water Center since the building’s completion in 2013 has led to the creation of a shared, collaboratory workspace called the “Oasis Coworking Community” to house companies from around the world seeking to tap the…

Milwaukee, WI, Aug. 24, 2017 – A. O. Smith Corporation (NYSE:AOS) and The Water Council will be hosting Fostering Public-Private Innovations in the U.S. Water Market – Wisconsin’s Leadership on September 6, 2017 from 9:00 – 11:30 am ET (8:00 – 10:30 am CT) at the U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center in Washington, D.C. The program…