Sustainability Focus WRF funds and publishes research on water treatment, reuse, and stormwater systems, highlighting opportunities to offer advanced water quality analytics, monitoring technologies, and data-driven sustainability solutions aligned with their mission.

ML and Automation Recent initiatives include developing ML-based chloramination control, suggesting potential for selling predictive analytics, control systems, and AI-enabled optimization tools to utilities and plant operators.

Research Partnerships Active collaboration with industry groups and academic partners (e.g., GW-Project, Rice University, US Water Alliance) indicates openness to joint ventures, pilot programs, and sponsored research funding opportunities for vendors.

Funding Scale With substantial revenue and a broad project portfolio, WRF can be a conduit for large-scale piloting of cloud-based data platforms, dashboards, and reporting services that support grant-funded research and member utilities.

Industry Networking Regular participation in conferences and awards signals fertile grounds for sponsorships, speaking engagements, and association partnerships to raise product awareness among water utilities and technology providers.