Research to Support Industry
We are at the forefront of research into water stewardship. We have built our collective understanding over the past two decades and are still learning – constantly building out research collaborations with Horizon Europe, the EPA, MOSL among others. We strive to unearth new insights while also collaborating in best practice water stewardship, peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and cutting-edge methodologies.
In 2021, we were awarded the Water Governance Award from Water Europe to recognise our efforts over the past two decades to drive better water stewardship knowledge and action across Irish, European and global supply chains. Research powers everything we do for our members – helping identify new solutions for water use practices, water circularity, resource recovery, demand reduction and decarbonisation of industrial water lifecycles.
Internal Research Insights
Supporting members, state agencies and industry as they seek to advance their water stewardship practices, efforts and impacts.
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Additional Research
Other tools, initiatives and programmes that support our shared ethos of water stewardship.
Framework for Industrial Water 4.0
Developing international frameworks for Industrial Water 4.0 in collaboration with the DECHEMA research network based in Frankfurt and a group of Irish based multinationals including Nestle, Thermo Fischer and ABP Food Group.
Behavioural Change Tools to Promote Going Beyond Compliance
This research critically reviewed contextual, motivational and operational aspects that influence organisational environmental regulatory compliance behaviour and performance among regulated communities.
National Roadmap for Water Stewardship in Ireland
This report captures key lessons for Ireland in relation to water stewardship and outlines a national roadmap for Water Stewardship in industry and agriculture with a view towards establishing the country as a leader in the adoption of water stewardship best practice.
IRCSET Water Risk Project
Water Stewardship Ireland supported an IRCSET funded research project focussed on the development of risk assessment standards for major water processes at member sites including GSK.
Johnson & Johnson Innovation Partnership Project
Supported by Enterprise Ireland, this research project was focussed on the development integration tools, data lake infrastructure and advanced water visualisations to enhance efficiency of resource usage across the Visioncare site in Limerick.
True Cost of Water
This project focussed on identifying best practices and generic tools to calculate the true cost of water throughout the business water lifecycle. This will specifically address issues in developing greater awareness of the true cost of water at point of delivery for different industrial and agribusiness contexts.
Water Mapping
This project is focussed on developing a standardised approach to mapping the current state of water lifecycles across industry. This research was completed with support from WSI members in industries such as Pharma, MedTech, Food and Beverage and Manufacturing.
Water Management at WWTP
This Intertrade Ireland supported project focussed on the development of standards based remote monitoring solutions for waste water treatment plants across Ireland.