Averil B. Rance

SouthWest Water Co. is a company that owns and operates regulated water and wastewater systems in seven states in the United States, serving over half a million residential and business customers. The company provides a broad range of operations, maintenance, and management services, including water production, treatment, and distribution, wastewater collection and treatment, customer service, and utility infrastructure construction management. The company has subsidiaries in the United States, including Hornsby Bend Utility Company, Midway Water Utilities, Inc., and more. The company takes pride in delivering high-quality, reliable service to its customers. The company was founded in 1891 as Land & Water Company and is headquartered in Sugar Land, TX, with around 500 employees. The CEO is Robert MacLean.

Waterlink, Inc. is an international provider of integrated water and air purification solutions for both industries and municipal customers. It uses carbon to purify air, water and gases by retaining impurities in carbon granules. The company supplies activated carbon for liquid, air and gas filtration systems and is a leading manufacturer of specialty-impregnated carbons used in applications where the capacity of activated carbons can be significantly increased. It was founded on December 7, 1994 and is headquartered in Canton, OH.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of waste management services. It offers municipal solid waste, commercial and industrial waste, special waste, metals recovery and recycling, and ash management services. The company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Portsmouth, NH.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

National Association of Water Cos. operates as a non-profit organization that provides water and wastewater services. It offers drinking water, wastewater, public-private partnerships, water reuse, design, build, and operate, conservation and sustainability, water operating services, and biosolids solutions. The company was founded in 1895 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Clean Earth Dredging Technologies LLC engages in recycling dredging materials. It handles types of dredged materials, including clean and contaminated, non-hazardous, marine sediment, fresh water sediment, marine debris, and pier demolition debris. The firm’s recycled material will be processed into engineered structural fill and employed in wide variety of reuses including mine reclamation, landfill capping, golf course contouring, and the redevelopment of over twenty-five brownfields in the state of New Jersey alone. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

UGSI Solutions, Inc. provides chemical feed and water disinfection technologies to municipal and industrial clients. It offers infrastructure technologies to the water, wastewater and energy industries. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Harvest Returns, Inc. provides investment advisory services. It invests in agriculture, investment, finance, crowd funding, farming, wealth management and real estate sectors. The company was founded by Paul Christopher Rawley in 2016 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

Apposphere Inc. provides artificial intelligent based cloud software as a service solution. The company was founded by Sridhar Kamma and Hector Sanchez and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

SUEZ Water Idaho, Inc. provides water supply services. The firm offers water and waste recycling services to domestic, commercial and industrial sectors. The company is headquartered in Boise, ID.

Kloudgin, Inc. develops predictive field service management software. The firm offers field service suite, asset management suite, KloudPlatform, and ERP for Mid-size. It offers services to the utilities, public sector, telecommunication, facilities maintenance, asset rentals, manufacturing, engineering and construction industry. The company is founded by Vikram Takru and Vikas Bansal and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Burnt Island Ventures Management LLC (Burnt Island Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Thomas Ferguson. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Cleanwater1, Inc. provides water quality and wastewater treatment products and solutions. The private company is located in the US.