Skip to main content
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.
Great Salt Lake Solution Exchange

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.
Patrick Donnely presenting at a Solutions Series
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.
Group at Bear River Bird Refuge touring phragmite

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.
Partners & Research

Innovation happens through collaboration

We work alongside researchers, universities, entrepreneurs, businesses, nonprofits, investors, and policymakers to advance practical solutions for water resilience.
[01]

University partners

Collaborating with leading research universities to study lake hydrology, salinity trends, and ecosystem health.
[02]

Research partners

Working with scientific institutions and labs to generate the data that drives informed policy and restoration decisions.
[03]

Industry partners

Engaging businesses and entrepreneurs who are developing scalable technologies for water conservation and efficiency.
[04]

Innovation ecosystem

Connecting nonprofits, investors, and
policymakers to align capital and action around the most urgent water challenges.

Donate today to make an impact through our initiatives.

The Great Salt Lake Alliance is catalyzing water innovation by bringing together people, partnerships, resources, and public support to create lasting impact.
Keep up with updates
© Copyright 2026
The Great Salt Lake Alliance
Something went wrong!
Please try again.
Thank you!
Your inquiry has been received. We'll be in touch soon.

Contact GSLA