Visionary water projects honored with Lighthouse Awards

Glob­al orga­ni­za­tions that have blazed a trail of inno­va­tion to con­serve and improve water resources and imple­ment sus­tain­able process­es have been rec­og­nized for their pio­neer­ing work. Recip­i­ents of the 2021 Light­house Awards include com­pa­nies such as Carls­berg and Google, as well as orga­ni­za­tions such as util­i­ties. Now in their sec­ond year, the awards are pre­sent­ed by the Brave Blue World Foun­da­tion, a non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tion that pro­motes sci­en­tif­ic and edu­ca­tion­al sto­ries relat­ed to water.

The award-win­ning orga­ni­za­tions, so named because they are role mod­els for oth­ers, have devel­oped new ways to use tech­nol­o­gy, finance or part­ner­ships to incor­po­rate cir­cu­lar think­ing into their prac­tices to reduce their impact in water-scarce regions or build resilience in their local water systems.

“The Light­house Awards hon­or pio­neers who are cham­pi­oning water inno­va­tion to cre­ate tan­gi­ble change in their orga­ni­za­tion or com­mu­ni­ty. They also pro­vide us with an oppor­tu­ni­ty to raise aware­ness of the remark­able work being done in the glob­al water com­mu­ni­ty. The achieve­ments of the 2021 awardees show us what is pos­si­ble when bold ambi­tions are sup­port­ed and encour­aged. We are proud to hon­or the sto­ries of these vision­ar­ies who are show­ing us the way to a sus­tain­able water future.”

- Paul O’Callaghan, Founder, Brave Blue World Foundation

The selec­tion process for the award, con­duct­ed by judges from tech­nol­o­gy mar­ket research firm BlueTech Research, was based on a set of cri­te­ria and was divid­ed into project themes. These includ­ed blue-green infra­struc­ture, water reuse, part­ner­ships and com­mu­ni­ca­tions, nature-based solu­tions, regen­er­a­tion, water­sheds and cir­cu­lar economy.