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February 3, 2026 - AFNOR presentation on certification issues for sustainable water management
📅 On Tuesday, 3 February, AFNOR hosted a workshop on certification issues for companies in relation to sustainable water management.
💧After presenting its activities, AFNOR shared its experience on these issues and led a discussion session on the following topics:
- Voluntary standardisation, a strategic lever for companies
- Concrete means of action available to companies to use voluntary standardisation
- ISO 46001 and ISO 14046 standards on sustainable water management
- Compilation of issues and challenges faced by WaterShift partners and discussion on available levers for action
🙏 Many thanks to the AFNOR teams and our WaterShift partners for their contribution to this workshop.
December 4, 2025 - Third Watershift workshop: Financing water management projects and infrastructure
📅 On Thursday, 4 December 2025, our partner Leonard hosted a new WaterShift workshop dedicated to the challenges of financing water management projects and infrastructure.
💧Our partners shared their issues, roadmaps and feedback on:
• The visible gap between the sector's announced investment needs and limited growth projections.
• Available financing mechanisms, from the Seine-Normandy Water Agency to the Banque des Territoires, including long-term loans, engineering support, and innovation financing.
• Innovative approaches such as internal water pricing to better promote sustainable water management projects and stimulate strategic investments.
🙏 Many thanks to the teams at VINCI and Leonard for their hospitality, and to all those involved for their commitment throughout this workshop.
The Bel Group joins WaterShift !
🆕 We are pleased to welcome the Bel Group to the WaterShift initiative.
An international leader in the food industry, the Bel Group has been taking strong action for several years to reduce the water footprint of its sites and its value chain.
By joining WaterShift, Bel aims to actively contribute to collective efforts toward more sustainable water management, sharing its on-the-ground experience and best practices
WaterShift was at Pollutec Lyon, October 7–10, 2025
💧 WaterShift and Impulse Partners were present at Pollutec 2025. In partnership with the event organizers, we hosted two learning expeditions dedicated to sustainable water management.
Welcome to our new partner, Sika!
🆕 We are pleased to welcome Sika to the WaterShift initiative.
As an internationally recognized company, Sika designs and develops innovative solutions for the protection, waterproofing, and durability of hydraulic infrastructures.
Sika joins the WaterShift initiative with the goal of contributing to the development of sustainable water resource management through concrete actions, by leveraging its expertise and technologies to support the environmental transition.
September 24, 2025 – Partner workshop: Challenges and innovations around water recycling
📅 On September 24, 2025, a WaterShift partners visit was held, dedicated to the challenges and innovations around water recycling (rainwater, greywater, water reuse).
On the agenda:
✅ Visit of the CIRSEE and five of its laboratories:- BIOPROCESSlab (treatment of pollutants and recovery of wastewater resources)
- MEMLab (evaluation of UF, NF and reverse osmosis membranes)
- PIPELab (qualification of materials and improvement of network performance)
- TREATlab (optimization of drinking water treatment processes)
- PLASTlab (characterization, recycling and development of new plastics)
✅ Collaborative workshop with a presentation by SUEZ Consulting and exchanges between partners
✅ Sharing of feedback, challenges, and identified best practices🙏 Many thanks to the CIRSEE teams for their warm welcome and to all the partners for their commitment throughout this workshop.
July 16, 2025 – International online session: Business continuity & industrial ecology
💧 As part of the WaterShift initiative, we were pleased to host an international online session dedicated to the challenges of business continuity and industrial and territorial ecology.
On the agenda:
✅ Introduction to the WaterShift initiative
✅ Focus on climate change-related disruptions
✅ Sharing of experiences from an industrial and territorial ecology project in southern France
✅ Pitch from EHAB, an innovative solution for managing weather and climate risks for businesse
EHAB
Pitch during the July 16, 2025 event
EHAB is developing a climate risk management platform dedicated to the industrial and construction sectors. Its solution leverages weather data and climate projections to help companies anticipate hazards, reduce operational losses, and optimize planning.
🙏 We would like to thank our partners, speakers, and all participants for their commitment to this initiative!
May 20, 2025 - Launching event
💧 We were pleased to launch Watershift, an initiative designed as a space for reflection and action to support businesses and industrial players in addressing the critical challenges related to water resources.
🔎 What we’re proud of:
- An unprecedented mobilization of public and private stakeholders — including companies, industrial actors, local authorities, investors, experts, and entrepreneurs — in line with our mission to unite ecosystems around emerging issues.
- Rich and insightful content, shaped by partners who shared real-world challenges, exchanged experiences, and collaboratively outlined actionable pathways to preserve water and enhance the resilience of activities.
Aquality
Pitch during the May 20, 2025 event
Aquality offers rainwater harvesting systems for applications such as washing machines, watering and cleaning, as well as a grey water treatment system capable of filtering water without the need for a power supply or chemical additives.
Nomad'o
Pitch during the May 20, 2025 event
Nomado offers containerised wastewater treatment solutions for construction sites and industry. The start-up produces systems for a wide range of uses, including the management of water from tunnel boring machines, concrete mixing plants, living bases and rainwater.
A warm thank you to the organizations that chose to join us: VINCI, Saint-Gobain, Schneider Electric, Stradal, and Banque des Territoires.
Special thanks as well to our speakers from Suez, Aquality, and Nomado.
For further information: LinkedIn
April 2025 - Launch of WaterShift
Impulse Partners and SUEZ Consulting are launching WaterShift in April 2025, an initiative aimed at bringing together private and public stakeholders around common issues related to water use and management, and identifying innovative solutions to address them.
