WaterShift News

💧 WaterShift and Impulse Partners will be present at Pollutec 2025. In partnership with the event organizers, we will host two learning expeditions focused on sustainable water management.

👉 Let us know if you’ll be attending and would like to take part in our key moments by filling out the following form: Impulse x Pollutec 2025 Form.

🆕 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.

📅 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.

💧 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

💧 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.

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.