CEWAS
CEWAS’s Water Resilience Solutions Hub connects water utilities in Kenya and Uganda with entrepreneurial solutions designed to anticipate and respond to climate risks. It pairs utilities with innovative enterprises to move promising resilience solutions from the marketplace into real-world application, generating evidence and pathways for scale.
Investment Rationale
The Water Resilience Solutions Hub (WRSH) addresses a critical gap between climate-resilience innovation and the water utilities that need practical solutions to manage growing climate risks.
Bridging innovation and implementation: WRSH helps utilities identify climate-related vulnerabilities, match with relevant enterprises, and co-design and pilot solutions.
Catalytic and scalable model: Rather than backing a single technology, WRSH is testing a replicable mechanism for utility-enterprise partnerships designed to enable long-term adoption and scale.
Impact & Outcomes
WRSH strengthens water systems in Kenya and Uganda and generates practical evidence to inform climate resilience across the water sector.
More climate-resilient utilities: Five participating utilities will assess climate risks, identify operational vulnerabilities, and pilot solutions to improve the reliability and sustainability of water services under climate stress.
Evidence for scale: The Hub is designed to improve water service reliability for climate-vulnerable communities while generating evidence and financing pathways to enable successful solutions to be sustained, expanded, and adopted by utilities.
