Building Impact, Together
Partners
We collaborate with organizations, governments, and innovators to expand clean water access and drive sustainable solutions worldwide.
Our Partners
Our partners help us deliver the WaHa Vaporator®, our sealed thermodynamic engine for regenerating solid desiccants. It will transform three markets: pure water, desiccant dehumidification, and HVAC. In each, success comes down to the same three measures: energy efficiency, strong economics, and machine reliability.
No single company can serve all three markets alone. Our partners bring the engineering, manufacturing, distribution, and market knowledge we need to build the WaHa Vaporator®, deliver it where customers need it, and prove its performance in the field. Each contributes a specific capability, from productizing the design for commercial release, to supplying the sorbents at its core, to validating energy savings in real operating conditions.
This section introduces the organizations working with us across those disciplines. Together, they help us turn a validated technology into products customers can buy, install, and rely on.
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Sales & Support
Dicode Technologies is an investor in WaHa and our partner in the UAE. With an established presence in the UAE and throughout the GCC, Dicode will enable WaHa to have an in-person presence in this critical market.
Concord Enviro Systems Ltd. (NSE: CEWATER), a publicly listed Indian water treatment company, is an investor in WaHa and one of our global manufacturing partners. Concord manufactures the WaHa Vaporator® at its facility in the UAE and holds a license to sell WaHa systems for industrial dehumidification in India.
Ibyma is WaHa's exclusive distributor for the Permian Basin, covering the Texas and New Mexico portions of the basin. A water engineering and solutions firm with more than 15 years of field experience, Ibyma sells, installs, and supports WaHa systems, starting with on-site water for remote workforce camps and field operations where trucked-in water is costly and unreliable.
Engineering
Czero is a specialized boutique engineering firm that is working with WaHa to model machine performance.
Synapse is a large engineering design firm with experience developing mechanical refrigeration-based industrial products. Synapse is working with WaHa to productize WaHa’s design for commercial release.
Air Conditioning
The US Department of Energy Building Technologies Office (BTO) and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBL) have signed a CRADA (collaborative research and development agreement) with WaHa to optimize the design of the WaHa Vaporator® for the HVAC market as well as select initial market(s) for the air conditioner product.
Dehumidification Efficiency
UC Davis professor Shamim Ahamed, is a member of the WaHa Technical Advisory Board. With funding from CalNEXT, Professor Ahamed will be measuring the performance of the WaHa Vaporator® in one of their controlled environment agriculture (CEA) test chambers.
CalNEXT is a statewide initiative to identify, test, and grow electric technologies and delivery methods to support California’s decarbonized future.
Etanomics specializes in energy optimization and the development of holistic energy concepts. They are working with WaHa to validate our energy efficiency savings in our key customer markets.
Academia
The University of California, Berkeley is where WaHa’s core water harvesting technology originated. WaHa licenses from Berkeley the metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) developed in Professor Yaghi’s laboratory, including MOF-303, along with other water harvesting IP. WaHa’s lead technologists, our CTO, Eugene Kapustin, and our EVP, Engineering, David Kuo, both received their PhDs from Berkeley.
Arizona State University, through Professor Paul Westerhoff and the ASU Global Center for Water Technology, is working with WaHa on desert atmospheric water generation and the regulatory pathway for AWG as a permittable water supply. Westerhoff is a Regents Professor and the Fulton Chair of Environmental Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU and serves as president of the International Atmospheric Water Harvesting Association (IAWHA).
Khalifa University brings significant value to WaHa through its advanced materials research expertise and rigorous testing capabilities in the UAE’s challenging climate. The university has validated the WaHa Vaporator’s® impressive performance, achieving 100% uptime and 99.9% reliability while enhancing energy efficiency and water production. This collaboration aligns with UAE’s sustainability goals, providing WaHa with credibility and regional recognition. Khalifa University’s involvement also opens doors for further technological advancements and energy efficiency, accelerating WaHa’s development and implementation of AWG technology in the Middle East.
OST, the world leading university in heat pump technology, has been working with WaHa to develop a comprehensive heat-pump desorption system model. The approach involves creating a detailed MOF transient model, validating it against experimental data, simplifying it to a 0-d model, and integrating it into a full system simulation.
Novel Sorbent (MOFs) Synthesis and Coating
These global chemical companies supply the metal-organic framework (MOF) powders that are a key component of the WaHa Vaporator®. WaHa has developed and patented advanced coating formulations for MOFs and solid sorbents, and works with these partners to apply the sorbents onto substrates at commercial scale.
Markets
These companies provide WaHa with a deep understanding of market requirements for both the water utility market as well as the real estate development market.
