Water Efficiency Lab 2 (WEL 2)
Funds UK water-sector innovators tackling customer-side leakage with grants of £150,000 to £1.5 million.
Before drafting an entry, applicants read the Entrant Handbook, the Terms and Conditions and the published FAQs, and can download two offline templates - an Entry Drafting Form for the written answers and a Project Delivery Template covering the budget and delivery plan - before transferring their final answers into Submittable. The entry form itself must be submitted in English, even though the w…
The Water Efficiency Lab is a challenge-led competition run through Ofwat's Water Innovation Fund, seeking innovative technologies, processes and approaches that close the water efficiency gap in England and Wales. This second round, WEL 2, is themed around reducing customer-side leakage.
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