The water category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors projects designed to increase access to clean water, fight drought, protect oceans, or otherwise help solve water-related issues. See the finalists and honorable mentions below, and read about the winner, the report that exposed the dangerous contamination of America’s drinking water.
Finalists
Beacon+, Varuna
Ocean Strainer, MAS Holdings
OH-Wake Magazine, Lonely Whale, HP Inc. and 52HZ
PepsiCo and N-Drip Collaboration, PepsiCo and N-Drip
Phytorestore, Phytorestore Brazil and Superunion Brazil
ReefCloud, Accenture and Australian Institute of Marine Science
Honorable Mentions
City Greenery Dining System, Re-a.d and Allison Newsome
Epic Cleantec, Epic Cleantec
Friendship Cabins, Friendship Products
Irrigation optimization, Ceres Imaging
NanoNetPlatform, CarboNet
PFAS elimination, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Remote Water Sensor, Charity: Water
Well Beyond App, Well Aware