Water
The focus of this Flagship Destination is to ensure availability, resiliency, sustainable management, and equitable access to clean water for all people, agriculture, industry, and ecosystems while minimizing GHG emissions by 2050.
Water is the lifeblood of our planet, flowing through a single, interconnected global cycle. This delicate system faces unprecedented challenges due to human activities and environmental changes. We seek innovative solutions that address water challenges holistically. Solutions will come from groundbreaking ideas, policies, and technologies using integrated approaches across institutions, governments, communities, finance, and corporations - a solution space in which we believe Stanford is uniquely positioned to lead and make impact at the scale.
2022 Projects
In 2022 the Sustainability Accelerator funded its first cohort of 31 teams. Several of these multidisciplinary projects advanced sustainability solutions in the area of water.
Achieving the human right to water in California
Designing efficient and sustainable water reallocation in California
Electrochemical nutrient recovery from wastewater: creating circular nutrient economies
