What We Do
From research to reality, across the whole water cycle.
Identify. Implement. Scale. A meeting point where ideas become projects — and projects become infrastructure.
Everblue identifies, implements and scales innovative solutions for the recovery, recycling and conservation of water — at every stage of its cycle and in every sector that depends on it. Our work follows four connected lines of activity: we curate knowledge, we convene the ecosystem, we catalyse projects, and we help solutions scale.
Knowledge
Making the field legible. We curate and disseminate trusted information across the entire water cycle: research findings, data and indicators, technology landscapes and foresight and validated best practice. Our Innovation Radar maps what is emerging; our briefings translate it for decision-makers who need to act on it. The aim is simple — reduce the information gap that keeps good technologies invisible and bad ones overfunded.
Convening
Bringing the right people into the same room. We facilitate working groups, technical roundtables and international convenings that put the scientific community, industrial operators and investors in direct contact. These are working formats, not showcases: they exist to produce agendas, consortia and commitments that co-create solutions.
Acceleration
Turning conversations into pilots. We catalyse partnerships and pilot projects — matching technologies to host sites, structuring consortia, supporting governance models, and framing funding pathways across grants, corporate budgets and impact investment. We provide scientific and technical validation along the way: evidence-based assessment, feasibility review and implementation roadmaps.
Scale-up
Closing the distance to capital. We help innovative solutions move from pilot to deployment by providing investment-ready project dossiers, introductions to aligned capital, transaction and structuring support, and the visibility that enables successful models to be replicated across multiple sites.
Where we work — from glaciers to the ocean
At the source. Our glacier programme supports research, monitoring and awareness on the world’s glaciers — mass balance, meltwater flows, watershed impacts, and the preservation of ice archives — together with scientific institutions. Protecting the water cycle at its origin is the first condition for everything downstream. From our home in Verbier, at the heart of the Alpine arc, we are constantly reminded of this interdependence.
In use and in industry. We support technologies that reduce water intensity, close industrial loops, recover water and energy from process streams, and improve efficiency in agriculture, manufacturing and the built environment.
In treatment and reuse. We back advanced treatment, recycling and circular water systems that return water to productive use rather than discharging it — and, where the opportunity exists, recover clean energy in the process through heat recovery, biogas and renewable fuels.
In resilience. We support solutions that reduce water losses, improve meltwater reuse in downstream communities, and strengthen resilience to drought and water restrictions in the regions most exposed to them.
At the return. What is not recovered eventually reaches the sea, carrying with it whatever was added along the way. Quality of discharge is part of the cycle, not an afterthought to it — which is why our scope runs the full distance, from the glacier to the ocean.
The sectors we work with
Water conservation and reuse are not a single industry’s problem. We support technological projects wherever water is used at scale — and the challenge takes a different shape in each sector.
Fashion and textiles Dyeing, finishing and treatment make textiles one of the most water-intensive and most polluting supply chains in the world. We look for innovations to support closed-loop dyeing, effluent treatment and reuse, waterless and low-water processing, and the traceability tools that let brands verify what happens upstream of them.
Food and beverage Processing water, cleaning-in-place cycles and cooling represent a substantial and largely recoverable share of consumption. We are interested in recovery and reuse of process water, treatment of high-load organic effluent, and technologies that turn a waste stream into an input — or into energy.
Data centres Cooling has made computation a water question. As demand accelerates, we seek solutions that support closed-loop and low-water cooling, reuse of reclaimed and non-potable water, heat recovery from cooling circuits, and the siting and design choices that reduce pressure on stressed basins.
Energy production Thermal generation, hydrogen, biofuels and renewables all rely on water, and water infrastructure in turn relies on energy. We identify projects that close that loop: recovery of water and energy from process streams, low-water generation technologies, and water-enabled clean energy solutions.
Agriculture The largest water user of all, and the one facing the sharpest adaptation pressure. We seek innovations in precision irrigation, water recovery and reuse in the field, soil and watershed approaches that improve retention, and treated-effluent reuse where it is safe and regulated.
Manufacturing and the built environment Industrial process water, cooling circuits, and buildings and districts designed to recover greywater and rainwater represent opportunities to close loops in the places where water is most routinely discarded.
