The Ofwat Innovation Fund Delivery Partners

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Ofwat, the Water Services Regulation Authority for England and Wales, has established the Water Innovation Fund. Ofwat is a non-ministerial government department established in 1989, when the water and sewerage industry in England and Wales was privatised. Ofwat regulates the water sector in England and Wales.

In November 2020, Ofwat appointed Challenge Works (formerly known as Nesta Challenges), in partnership with Arup and Isle Utilities, as the delivery partners for the Fund. You can read more about this announcement in a press notice on the Ofwat website.

The delivery partners

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Challenge Works is a global leader in design and delivery of open innovation challenges that mobilise diverse, innovative thinkers to solve pressing problems and unlock change. Challenge prizes are a unique approach to funding innovation, offering a series of incentives, with a final prize given to whoever can first or most effectively meet a defined goal. These public competitions lower barriers to entry, to attract the broadest possible community of innovators. Founded by Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation for social good, we are a social enterprise that has delivered 86 challenges to date and distributed more than £124 million to winning innovators.

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Arup is global collective of designers, engineering and sustainability consultants, advisors and experts dedicated to sustainable development, and to using imagination, technology and rigour to shape a better world.

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Isle is a global team of independent scientists, engineers, business and regulatory experts with a common drive to make a positive environmental, social and economic impact through the advancement of innovative technologies, solutions and practices.