How We Work
Aqua Positive operates through a basin-first ecosystem where each actor plays a defined role in creating
Positive Water Impact.
Beneficiaries
Territorial Owners of the Challenge
Beneficiaries are basin owners, communities, utilities and territorial partners that face a concrete water challenge. They define the local need, the geographic scope and the purpose of each project, anchoring intentionality and ensuring that every intervention addresses a real basin-level priority.
Water Benefit Providers
On-the-ground Developers
Water Benefit Providers are local utilities, NGOs, engineering firms and solution providers that design and implement interventions on the ground. They generate real, new and incremental basin-level outcomes, anchoring additionality by ensuring that improvements in water availability, quality or access would not occur without the project.
Corporations
Impact Buyers & Strategic Funders
Corporations are organizations with material water footprints across operations and value chains. They activate demand by financing governed basin-level outcomes, enabling projects to be developed both on demand and through the marketplace, and supporting credible progress toward Water Positive goals.
Aqua Positive
Market Infrastructure & Project Structurer
Aqua Positive structures projects, governs standards, verifies outcomes and connects them to real demand through a living marketplace. We identify basin-level challenges, match them with verified solution providers through our network, and ensure the change is measurable and real. Through governance, monitoring and independent verification, Aqua Positive anchors permanence, ensuring that basin-level benefits remain durable, auditable and territorially embedded over time.
All Water Benefit projects structured within Aqua Positive are governed under standardized market rules.
They are measured using Volumetric Water Benefit Accounting (VWBA 2.0) and independently verified to ensure integrity, auditability and compliance with Water Positive principles.
Our preferred verifier for these projects is SCS Global Services