#waterplan

تُعد المخاطر المائية، مثل الفيضانات الشديدة، والتلوث واسع النطاق، وتدهور جودة المياه، من بين أكبر التحديات العالمية. ومع تفاقم تأثيرات تغير المناخ وسوء إدارة الموارد، باتت الأحداث المرتبطة بالمياه أكثر تكرارًا وتعقيدًا. فيضانات تكساس المدمرة، والجفاف الزراعي في شمال المكسيك، والسيول الموسمية في باكستان، وتلوث الأنهار الأوروبية؛ جميعها أمثلة حية على الحاجة الملحة لحلول متطورة. الأساليب التقليدية…

Excerpt from this story from the New York Times:

Drought, drought, everywhere and not a drop to drink, to misquote the Ancient Mariner. It has become increasingly clear that the world is running short of fresh water.

Yet, while there are many companies addressing carbon — the main culprit in climate change — few focus on water, and more specifically how corporations should be monitoring and controlling their use of it.

“Water is at the center of the climate crisis,” said José Ignacio Galindo, who helped found Waterplan, a company that helps corporations understand and manage water security. “Climate change is the problem and water is the messenger.”

Waterplan’s software platform integrates public watershed data and customer water use data to help companies in water-intensive industries make sure that their current or future operations are not affected by drought. And, perhaps more important, it helps companies monitor and replenish the watersheds and aquifers on which we all depend. (Waterplan charges an annual software license fee per site, but declined to give specifics on the fee range.)

Mr. Galindo and one of his co-founders, Nicolas Wertheimer, met at the Argentine hub of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers program, which brings together young people from different backgrounds to work on social and environmental projects. Mr. Wertheimer had already been working in water stewardship, and Mr. Galindo was a software engineer. They saw that there was a lot of innovation in carbon accounting but not much similar work with water.