A Place of Honor

Thank you to our supporters.

WaterRising Institute and WaterHouse exist because a remarkable community of benefactors, partners, and institutions chose to back the work before it was easy. With gratitude, we recognize them here.

Global Legal Partner Dentons
Dentons

Supporting the development of a Tier-1 global regulatory ecosystem through a $200,000 commitment to the WaterHouse Salon Dinner Series across New York, Washington, London, and Rome — and as the named global legal partner of the platform's flagship report, to be released at the UN Water Conference in Abu Dhabi and the World Economic Forum.

"Hosted by Dentons" — at the center of an emerging, globally relevant dialogue on regulation, infrastructure, and cross-border capital.

Founding Investors

Meaningful Ventures 2.0
$1.5M Founding Investment

Validated WaterHouse at the World Economic Forum. Managing Director Christine Tennyson is a Founding Builder and public advocate.

Foundations & Philanthropic Supporters

The Wege Foundation
Founding Era Supporter

Funded WaterRising's early convening and systems-design work (2017–2020) and its formative programs.

The Aspen Institute
Fiscal Sponsor & Fiduciary

Administered early funding and provided trusted institutional governance through the founding years.

Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
Community-Grounded Support

$200,000 over two years, keeping the global convening work rooted in lived infrastructure experience in Detroit and the Great Lakes.

Corporate & Industry Supporters

Champions of WaterRising's workforce and water-stewardship mission.

SUEZ
Workforce Supporter
Xylem
Workforce Supporter
Kohler
Workforce Supporter
Heineken
Workforce Supporter

Strategic & Knowledge Partners

Equarius
Strategic Partner · MOU

The intelligence backbone — water-risk quantification and the Water Stability Index™, led by Peter Adriaens.

The Water Tower Institute
Research Partner

Co-author of the workforce white paper, "A Guide for Recruiting and Retaining Talent in the Water Sector."

Acea
Utility Partner · Italy

Operator validation and pipeline development for the WaterHouse Italy workstream.

Cannes Lions / Informa
Creative Ecosystem Partner

Partnership in development following the Cannes 2026 Impact Studio and the Make Water Visible™ brief.

AquaFed
Member

The International Federation of Private Water Operators.

MM Spa · Milan
MOU Partner

Italian collaboration supporting WaterHouse's European workstream.

Public & Multilateral Alignment

U.S. EPA
Grant Support

Innovative Water Workforce Development Grant Program supporting WaterRising's research.

UNESCO-WWAP
Research Alignment
World Bank Water
Research Alignment
National Water Mission of India
MOU Partner
British Water
MOU Partner
Jordan Ministries of Water & Irrigation
MOU Partner

With Masarat, benchmarking workforce development and training in water conservation and digital tools.

Masarat
MOU Partner

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