Dan Deocampo Gary Keller Clarisse Croteau-Chonka Joel Rosenfield

The “Technology Opportunity” Water Markets

SBIR Awards in Water Technology, Funding by Agency DoE$22,613,101 NSF$18,963,788 NIH$12,392,558 DoD$10,246,737 USDA$8,649,754 EPA$6,762,752 NASA$4,995,531 NOAA$2,532,253 Total $87,156,474 3

The Cluster Concept Clusters are dense, regional networks of companies and other groups in the same industry. Cluster Univer- sities Startups Local Gov’t State Gov’t Federal Gov’t Support Groups Large Corps.

R&D contract R&D R&D, startup Incubation Testing & Demonstration

13 1.Clean Urban Water Technology Zone (Tacoma, WA) 2.Oregon Water Tech 3.The BlueTechValley (Central and San Joaquin Valleys, CA) 4.Las Vegas Cluster Effort (Nevada) 5.H2OStream (Tucson, Arizona) 6.Colorado Water Innovation Cluster (Fort Collins, CO) 7.Surge Accelerator (Houston, TX) 8.The Water Council (Milwaukee, MI) 9.Michigan Water Technology Initiative 10.Confluence WTIC (SW Ohio/N Kentucky/SE Indiana) 11.Cleveland Water Cluster (NE Ohio) 12.Akron Global Water Alliance (Akron, OH) 13.Water Economy Network (Pittsburgh, PA) 14.New England Water Innovation Network (Massachusetts) This map is not intended to be comprehensive, and may not include some emerging water clusters. Locations of U.S. Water Clusters 14 Full map available at www2.epa.gov/clusters-program/clusters-map.www2.epa.gov/clusters-program/clusters-map / 12 7

H2O Tech Univer- sities Startups & Small Biz Local Gov’t State Gov’t Federal Gov’t Support Groups Large Corps. UGA, GaTech, GSU, Emory, FSU, UA, USC, FSU IntelligentDots Ecodeucis Nclear OzomaxUSA Governor Deal GaDNR GaEPD GaDOT GaDPH GaDED Dekalb Fulton COA Sen Isakson EPA FHA/DOT CDC DOC/EDA USGS GAWP GWWI Confluence NGO’s H2O Consumers wH2O Emitters H2O Technologists

Many Potential Focus Areas Prevention & Response to toxic algal blooms Monitoring and Assessment for Indirect Potable Reuse Reduce nutrient loading to surface & groundwaters Monitoring & early warning (inorganic, biomonitoring, & emergent) Intelligent water systems Biosolids Energy Optimization in water treatment Aquifer Storage & Recovery Disinfection Byproducts Scaling up & commercialization of successful technologies Workforce development & certification Interstate regulatory issues

January, 2015 Authorization from GSU VP for R&ED Xomix, Ltd engaged as business accelerator March, 2015 EPA ORD partners CollabTech Space Allocation (58 Edgewood Ave) USDOC/EDA proposal submitted ($1.2M) April, 2015 H2O Tech joins EPA Cluster Leaders program H2O Tech invited to stage 2 for USDOC/EDA grant Joel Rosenfield joins H2O Tech as Industry Liason June, 2015 EPA Region 4 & CDC-NCEH joint meeting Kevin Moody (USDOT) joins H2O Tech as Fed Advisor September, 2015 Met with Confluence, Intent to Partner Milestones set for Launch November, 2015 H2O Tech meeting with GWWI Intent to partner w/CSU Sac Office of Water Programs December, 2015 Baker Hostetler incorporates H2O Tech as 501(c)(3) January, 2016 Meeting with Sam Williams, Harold Reheis Meeting with GAWP Reuse Committee February, 2016 EPA Clusters Program invited to White House Water Summit,March 22 (H2O Tech??) H2O Tech Co-Authors Water Cluster White Paper for OSTP March, 2016 White House Water Summit? TO DO: Build Stakeholder Network Identify Innovation Needs & Solution Providors Begin commercialization acceleration August 18-19, 2016 Tentative Public Launch and Stakeholder Roundtable in Atlanta (sponsors? host?)

Funding Model Membership-based 501(c)(3). Tiers of membership, Tiers of value Federal and State Grants and Contracts State appropriations for economic development Other Programmatic Funding Streams E.g. Industry-funded or public-private partnership workforce development

Agenda for 2016 Early Milestones: – Identify anchor corporate/private partners – Establish MOU with Confluence and others – Establish milestone programmatic success (e.g. H2OTech-sponsored SBIR/STTR, or other funding) – Build Workforce Development plan Launch event & stakeholders summit in August, 2016