The rainwater runoff fee is an important part of stormwater management and provides DWSD with additional resources to contain their combined sewer overflows through the use of Green Infrastructure, Wastewater Plant improvements and incentives to businesses to reduce impervious surfaces on their site. This fee is used in many cities,...

Sustainable Water Works’ Innovation Factory was highlighted by Chad Halcom, Crain’s Detroit Business for our work in supporting inventors and entrepreneurs in Ideation, Product Development and Virtual Design Education. The Innovation Factory is a unique asset for independent technology development using proven processes such as TRIZ Ideation for Intellectual Property...

This article highlights the connection between food, water and energy we are working on with RecoveryPark and FoodPlus Detroit.  Creating synergistic solutions to reduce the carbon, water and life cycle footprint of food, water and energy is essential to meeting the demand of 9 billion people. View Article >