Thank you. I wish to inform you about our solution (copyrights reserved to http://www.pranasustainablewater.ch/en/index.php. Futures contracts can enable treated wastewater to be bought and sold prior related deliveries to fund efficient wastewater and sanitation valorization infrastructures and disrupt the supply chains. Investments (e.g. by pension funds) in commodities backed by futures contracts are attracting funds because of transparency, liquidity and safety. Oil, copper, wheat, cotton, ... are traded prior their productions, why not treated wastewater? Water is indeed the most traded good in the world (embodied in products and services)! Prana Sustainable Water's commoditization solution has been designed to reduce massively the +/- 85% of wastewater untreated today, to increase access to sanitation, to address water deficits and unreliable supplies and markets. Deliveries of commoditized treated wastewater can be embedded as water footprints of products or services or near the decentralized wastewater recycling plant. The main advantages with W2AREX® Futures Contracts of treated wastewater are: 1/ Water and market security Selling treated wastewater in advance - thanks to its W2AREX® commoditization - can allow the wastewater recycling facilities to get visibility and fix prices of their future deliveries and therefore obtain funding. This resolves gaps to finance water infrastructures. Buying W2AREX® Futures Contracts of commoditized treated wastewater in advance can allow to secure water required for later delivery, save costs and reduce risks, brand reputation (people judge by impact not by intentions) and secure markets; 2/ Digitalize & Monetize wastewater Wastewater can have a higher value than clean water when recycled e.g. into energy, fertilizers, bio-cements, …etc and/or when recovered products are valorized. This means that some goods or services could be paid or exchanged with the value of wastewater resources. This can create a circular economy enabling communities or industries supplying wastewater to get benefits, products and/or incomes. This can bring new markets of more than 2bn consumers (via poverty alleviation thanks to access to sanitation and to wastewater supplies), organize food/productions security and boost responsible products adding or easing the valorization of wastewater. The suppliers of wastewater benefit the advantages of the agreed price and volume at B2B level of W2AREX® futures minus some costs. This supplier of “raw materials” could get for example reverse credits e.g. to equip his house for (improved) access to sanitation More generally it reverses the architecture of the supply chain: . some productions planned according to the requests of end consumers via their valued wastewater resources to produce what, where and how it makes sense (ie. reusing wastewater) . some productions designed to add value to wastewater (e.g. personal hygiene products to be added to wastewater biogas after use).
Published by Valerie Issumo, Designer of the W2AREX, WasteWater EXchange
Futures contracts can enable treated wastewater to be bought and sold prior related deliveries to fund efficient wastewater and sanitation valorization infrastructures and disrupt the supply chains.
Investments (e.g. by pension funds) in commodities backed by futures contracts are attracting funds because of transparency, liquidity and safety. Oil, copper, wheat, cotton, ... are traded prior their productions, why not treated wastewater? Water is indeed the most traded good in the world (embodied in products and services)!
Prana Sustainable Water's commoditization solution has been designed to reduce massively the +/- 85% of wastewater untreated today, to increase access to sanitation, to address water deficits and unreliable supplies and markets.
Deliveries of commoditized treated wastewater can be embedded as water footprints of products or services or near the decentralized wastewater recycling plant.
The main advantages with W2AREX® Futures Contracts of treated wastewater are:
1/ Water and market security
Selling treated wastewater in advance - thanks to its W2AREX® commoditization - can allow the wastewater recycling facilities to get visibility and fix prices of their future deliveries and therefore obtain funding. This resolves gaps to finance water infrastructures.
Buying W2AREX® Futures Contracts of commoditized treated wastewater in advance can allow to secure water required for later delivery, save costs and reduce risks, brand reputation (people judge by impact not by intentions) and secure markets;
2/ Digitalize & Monetize wastewater
Wastewater can have a higher value than clean water when recycled e.g. into energy, fertilizers, bio-cements, …etc and/or when recovered products are valorized.
This means that some goods or services could be paid or exchanged with the value of wastewater resources.
This can create a circular economy enabling communities or industries supplying wastewater to get benefits, products and/or incomes. This can bring new markets of more than 2bn consumers (via poverty alleviation thanks to access to sanitation and to wastewater supplies), organize food/productions security and boost responsible products adding or easing the valorization of wastewater.
The suppliers of wastewater benefit the advantages of the agreed price and volume at B2B level of W2AREX® futures minus some costs. This supplier of “raw materials” could get for example reverse credits e.g. to equip his house for (improved) access to sanitation
More generally it reverses the architecture of the supply chain:
. some productions planned according to the requests of end consumers via their valued wastewater resources to produce what, where and how it makes sense (ie. reusing wastewater)
. some productions designed to add value to wastewater (e.g. personal hygiene products to be added to wastewater biogas after use).