The Water Technologies Demonstration Programme

WADER promotes the early adoption of promising technologies and accelerates innovation in the water sector by showcasing technologies that have gone through a credible assessment process.

Through a series of open calls for water technologies that are in the emerging, pre-commercial or newly commercialised stages of diffusion, innovative water and sanitation technologies will be identified, evaluated and showcased to interested parties like municipalities and industries.

WADER looks at highly innovative technologies that practice in the following categories:

• Water-related alternative energy sources.
• Alternative sources of water.
• Non-Revenue Water.
• Water Reuse (industrial/domestic wastewater/greywater/mine water).
• Innovative low energy technologies to store/or treat water at households and local scales.
• Innovative decentralised low energy sanitation systems.
• Smart water conservation demand management (WCDM) devices for commercial buildings and/or households.
• Smart apps to support behavioural change and practices for consumers and their municipalities.
• Smart technologies to manage water distribution and sewerage systems.
• Smart and IoT innovations for water supply e.g. devices, drones and sensors.

Benefits

• Funding for independent technical evaluation of innovations
• Matchmaking with municipalities, innovation players, funding organisations and investors
• Access to information on a range of technologies through the WADER website and a link to the WRC-WE&RF Leaders Innovation Forum for Technology (LIFT) Co-Hub platform accessible through the WADER website
• Technical advisory services