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The Ofwat Innovation Fund Delivery Partners

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Ofwat, the Water Services Regulation Authority for England and Wales, launched the Ofwat Innovation Fund in 2020. 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.

The Ofwat Innovation Fund is delivered in partnership with Challenge Works, Arup and Isle Utilities. You can read more about how the Fund works on the About the Fund page. 

The delivery partners

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Challenge Works (a Nesta enterprise, formerly known as Nesta Challenges) has established itself as a global leader in designing and delivering high-impact challenge prizes that incentivise cutting-edge innovation for social good.

Founded by Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation for social good, we are a social enterprise that has delivered 101 challenges to date and distributed more than £310 million to winning innovators. And we’ve empowered over 16,000 entrepreneurial teams along the way.

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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.