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The Foundations of Water Positivity

Being Water Positive means restoring more water than is consumed, ensuring a net positive impact through measurable, verifiable, and lasting benefits. This requires intentionality, additionality, and permanence, with independent verification ensuring transparency and accountability. Companies that commit to Water Positive strategies strengthen ESG compliance, risk mitigation, and long-term sustainability while creating real environmental impact.

Develop a Water Positive Project

At Aqua Positive, we go beyond traditional water stewardship, developing high-impact Water Positive projects that are measurable, verifiable, and traceable through our marketplace, which provides time-stamped information for full transparency. Using VWBA 2.0, we structure projects that enhance both water quantity and quality, delivering tangible benefits for communities, businesses, and the environment.

We work alongside Water Benefit Developers across both Water Efficiency and Water Positive sectors, helping structure, validate, and scale projects that create measurable water impact. While both approaches contribute to sustainability, we differentiate them clearly:

Water Efficiency focuses on minimizing consumption and optimizing existing resources, ensuring water is used responsibly within industrial, agricultural, and urban systems.

Water Positive goes beyond efficiency, aiming to restore natural water cycles, regenerate ecosystems, and increase overall water availability through nature-based and technological interventions.

By integrating both strategies, we help organizations and developers align their water initiatives with global sustainability goals, ensuring verifiable, traceable, and high-impact water benefits.

At Aqua Positive, we implement solutions that reduce water consumption and maximize efficiency, while also restoring, replenishing, and generating new water resources. Our integrated approach ensures long-term sustainability, cost savings, and environmental resilience.

Water Governance & Sustainability Compliance

Our approach aligns with global water governance frameworks, including the NWPI under the CEO Water Mandate, and is designed to meet the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) within the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). By integrating these standards, we ensure that our projects contribute to global water security while supporting regulatory compliance and corporate sustainability goals.

Water Efficiency:
Reducing & Optimizing Water Use

We develop strategies to minimize water consumption and enhance efficiency across industries, urban settings, and agriculture.

Water Recycling & Reuse

Reusing water is essential to reducing reliance on freshwater sources. We develop rainwater collection systems and implement wastewater treatment technologies for safe reuse in industrial, agricultural, and urban applications.

If the goal is to reduce potable water consumption, it falls under Water Efficiency (e.g., reusing treated water in industrial processes or irrigation instead of extracting more water). If the focus is regenerative, allowing more water to return to ecosystems, it belongs to Water Positive (e.g., releasing high-quality treated water into rivers or wetlands for restoration).

Improving Water Quality for Sustainable Use

Maintaining high water quality is key to efficiency. Our approach includes advanced wastewater treatment, pollution control in industrial and agricultural operations, and invasive species management to protect aquatic ecosystems.

Water Positive: Restoring & Generating Water Resources

Beyond efficiency, we implement nature-based and technological solutions that restore, replenish, and increase water availability, ensuring long-term environmental and community resilience.

Investment in Water Infrastructure

Modernizing distribution systems helps reduce losses and improve efficiency, while the construction of advanced water purification plants ensures safe and clean water access. Early warning systems further protect ecosystems by detecting and mitigating pollution events.

Aquatic Ecosystems and Soil Regeneration

Restoring wetlands, rivers, and coastal areas enhances biodiversity and water retention.

Soil regeneration is the holistic approach to surficial and sub-surficial biodiversity enhancement that creates the soil structure that plays a pivotal role in improving water infiltration, reducing erosion of fertile soil, improving water quality and watershed health and improving resilience to drought and plagues, thereby helping adapt to climate change. Soil Regeneration can be implemented through various approaches in agroforestry, holistic grazing and sustainable land management.

Climate Change Adaptation & Groundwater Management

Developing resilient infrastructure and stormwater management solutions helps capture and reuse water while mitigating climate risks. Sustainable aquifer recharge ensures long-term groundwater availability, while measures to prevent nitrate contamination safeguard water quality.

Protection of Water Sources & Sustainable Urban Planning

Designing sponge cities, implementing sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS), and promoting reforestation and permeable surfaces help retain water, prevent loss, and reduce urban flooding, ensuring long-term sustainability.

Education & Awareness

Long-term water sustainability depends on awareness and action. We drive educational programs, public campaigns, and behavioral efficiency initiatives, empowering individuals and organizations to actively contribute to water conservation.

The Foundations of Water Positivity

Develop a Water Positive Project