Waterwhelm has been featured as one of 11 UK start-ups showcased by the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Hub during London Climate Action Week 2025.
The Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Hub is designed to showcase Hub Member innovation that is helping the UK to pursue and achieve its net zero targets.
As a featured start-up in pursuing climate innovation, Waterwhelm has been specifically recognised for ‘delivering a nature-positive future’, as it pursues the aims of ‘integrating climate, nature, and biodiversity to restore ecosystems and go beyond net zero’.
Waterwhelm’s low-cost and environmentally-sustainable forward osmosis technology redefines water reuse and desalination by using ultra-low pressure powered by waste heat, solar thermal, or geothermal heat to produce high-quality clean water. In fact, Waterwhelm’s technology has proven its ability to operate at the lowest-ever rate of electricity consumption and CO2 emissions for water reuse and desalination.
In doing so, Waterwhelm is tackling the widening gap between water supply and demand, globally, by offering a solution that frees the water-thirsty industrial sector from an increasingly fragile potable water supply network, allowing additional capacity to be used for other beneficial purposes.
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