Over one hundred companies and twenty knowledge institutes work together at Wetsus to develop solutions for global water issues.
[1] Wetsus was established as part of Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland (a public-private partnership in the northern Netherlands, covering Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe), the Frisian Water Alliance, the University of Twente, the University of Groningen and Wageningen University & Research to strengthen the position of the region as major player in the water sector.
[6] Wetsus studied reverse electrodialysis to generate osmotic power.
That research resulted in a spin-off company called REDstack that generates blue energy at the Afsluitdijk in the Netherlands.
[7] Wetsus also promoted decentralized sanitation and wastewater reuse in the Netherlands through the spin-off company DeSaH.