Advocates for Water Science
Who We Are
Our History
Since 2013 the initiator participated in the annual water conferences organized by Gerald Pollack (the conference series started in 2005). It is a gathering of water scientists curious to venture into the unknown properties of water. In those years, we experienced our own struggle in water science, to get it funded and accepted, and at the same time the inspiration we always had to continue to dive deeper into water science and water’s connection with literally all of life. We always enjoyed the mixed group of people with different backgrounds coming together (scientists, entrepreneurs, healthcare practitioners and more) and we felt the urge to bring into reality the full collective potential of this group to change the world.
Water touches every conventional scientific discipline, it therefore requires a multi-disciplinary approach. One cannot acquire expertise in all these disciplines, therefore collaboration is key. And since water touches even the unseen, a new science needs to develop.
The idea for the World Water Lab arose: a world wide connected lab consisting of scientists and labs sharing their expertise and resources to efficiently and effectively tackle the subject of Water; a strong outward message for water science, so that individual labs and scientists don’t need to stand the ‘test’ alone; solid science and quality marking for water solutions on the market; education for the general public; and a new scientific discipline.
Our vision
To enhance, change and influence the future of water science, through world-wide scientific collaboration across all scientific fields and accelerate a scientific revolution across all the sciences.
Our mission
To form a network of global scientists sharing expertise, equipment, and worldwide laboratory space to collaborate on scientific projects efficiently, cost-effectively, and with high-quality output.
Our strategy
- To contribute to public or private water projects through fundamental or applied science.
- To enable convincing and high-quality research projects that no individual lab could afford, through lack of equipment, staff or funding resources.
- To enable/facilitate the safekeeping of all existing experiences, knowledge, material, and expertise that might be lost from labs running low on funds or out of existence.
- To determine research lines that can be collectively focused on, with real perspectives to create a way to ‘quality mark’ water products.
- To build a wealthy and quality library of scientific texts implying water science in its various aspects.
Our values
- Create an open, transparent, harmonious culture with respect, open discussions, positive criticism, including many perspectives
- Act based upon common drive, intrinsic motivation, shared vision and positive impact (and not to focus on intellectual property, contracts, publication pressure)