Barcelona, Spain
Water, an essential, finite resource, weaves its way through a maze of cycles, structures, and boundaries, natural and human-made, intricately linking the health of our planet with the prosperity of our communities.
As a potential antidote to the water sector’s many challenges, including the climate emergency, this paper proposes the water sector embrace “Open Water,” a concept, approach, and way of working that draws from an open philosophy.
Open Water encompasses central principles — transparency, collaboration, and free sharing of information (as opposed to competitive guarding) — with an underlying goal to accelerate innovation, improve accessibility, and create value through collective effort. We believe the water sector is particularly well positioned to embrace and benefit from Open Water.
