Innovation
Advancing Water Innovation
Innovation creates solutions. Adoption creates scale. Together they create impact.
INNOVATION INITIATIVES
Driving Solutions for a More Resilient Great Salt Lake
Explore the Great Salt Lake Alliance's initiatives advancing innovation through discovery, acceleration, and alignment.
The Utah Water Innovation Platform (UWIP) brings together researchers, entrepreneurs, industry, government, investors, and community partners to help promising water solutions move from ideas to real-world impact. By connecting expertise, resources, and opportunities, UWIP helps accelerate innovation that improves how water is managed, valued, and used. Rather than duplicating existing efforts, the platform strengthens collaboration across Utah's water ecosystem to help the most promising solutions succeed.
We serve as a catalyst and convener for Utah's water innovation ecosystem, connecting people, organizations, and ideas that can create lasting change. Through strategic partnerships and cross-sector collaboration, we help promising solutions gain the support, expertise, and momentum needed to succeed.
We convene conferences, workshops, and collaborative forums that bring together leaders from government, research, business, philanthropy, nonprofits, and local communities to tackle Utah's most pressing water challenges. Our gatherings are designed to foster meaningful dialogue, strengthen partnerships, and identify practical opportunities for collaboration. By creating space for diverse perspectives, we help turn ideas into coordinated action.
Ways to Support
Choose How You'd Like to Support
Whether you're interested in funding innovation, sponsoring an initiative, or exploring strategic partnerships, there are many ways to help create a more resilient water future.
Become a Funding Partner
Support innovation by Investing in the Great Salt Lake Alliance.
Sponsor an Initiative
Help fund the Water Innovation Platform.
Support the Alliance Catalyst Fund
Invest in emerging ideas and breakthrough solutions that address today's water challenges.
Support Collaborative Opportunities
Ensure ecosystem alignment through sponsoring a Solutions Series event or Great Salt Lake Convening.
Funding Priorities
Where Your Support Makes an Impact
Your investment helps advance the initiatives that drive innovation, strengthen collaboration, and accelerate water solutions.
Invest in New Ideas
Help identify opportunities, connect innovators, and advance promising water solutions through Utah's collaborative water innovation ecosystem through the Utah Water Innovation Platform.
Invest in Catalytic Solutions
Make catalytic investments that help promising ideas move from discovery to impact through strategic projects, partnerships, and ecosystem investments through the Alliance Catalyst Fund and the Utah Water Innovation Platform.
Invest in Collaboration
Strengthen collaboration by bringing together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, businesses, nonprofits, and communities to identify opportunities, align around priorities, and accelerate solutions through Great Salt Lake Convenings and Solutions Series.
Why Invest
Invest in Lasting Impact
Support the ideas that move water innovation from research to real-world impact.
By investing in the Great Salt Lake Alliance, funders help:
- Accelerate new water solutions
- Support early-stage innovation
- Strengthen cross-sector collaboration
- Build public support for action
The Challenge
Most organizations focus on a single part of the water challenge. Some focus on research. Others focus on policy, conservation, education, or restoration.
Our Role
The Great Salt Lake Alliance occupies a different role. We focus on the critical space between innovation and impact. We help create the conditions that allow promising solutions to move from discovery to implementation, adoption, and scale.
Why Your Investment Matters
An investment in the Alliance is not simply an investment in a single project.
It is an investment in the innovation needed to address water scarcity and build a more resilient water future.
It is an investment in the innovation needed to address water scarcity and build a more resilient water future.
Partners & Research
Innovation happens through collaboration
We work alongside researchers, universities, entrepreneurs, businesses, nonprofits, investors, and policymakers to advance practical solutions for water resilience.
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University partners
Collaborating with leading research universities to study lake hydrology, salinity trends, and ecosystem health.
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Research partners
Working with scientific institutions and labs to generate the data that drives informed policy and restoration decisions.
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Industry partners
Engaging businesses and entrepreneurs who are developing scalable technologies for water conservation and efficiency.
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Innovation ecosystem
Connecting nonprofits, investors, and
policymakers to align capital and action around the most urgent water challenges.
policymakers to align capital and action around the most urgent water challenges.


