------- SA WATER INNOVATION PTY LTD -------(Trading as SAWI Water Innovation) ACN 693 871 199 / ABN 48 693 871 199
Investing in Prevention-First Water Infrastructure
Intercept pollution before it becomes remediation.
“With a clean capital structure, disciplined governance, and a scalable model, SAWI offers investors a clear pathway into next-generation water infrastructure.” Rob Manning - Founder
SAWI Water Innovation is building a prevention-first water resilience platform designed to identify, intercept, measure and recover pollutants before they spread through waterways and become significantly more difficult and expensive to manage.
Our model combines advanced filtration media, engineered deployment systems, environmental diagnostics, monitoring, retrieval and circular recovery into one scalable operating platform.
Characterise → Intercept → Measure → Recover → Verify
Rather than building the company around a single filter or single contaminant, SAWI Water Innovation is building an environmental infrastructure platform capable of being adapted across stormwater, industrial water, ports, aquaculture, harmful algal bloom response, hydrocarbons, PFAS-associated contamination, microplastics and coastal resilience.
Prevention at source. Measurable environmental outcomes. Recurring commercial pathways.
THE INVESTMENT THESIS
The economics of water pollution change when intervention moves upstream.
Governments, industries and communities spend substantial amounts monitoring environmental deterioration and responding after contamination has spread. SAWI Water Innovation is pursuing a different proposition: intercept the load earlier. Pollution entering stormwater networks, rivers, ports and coastal environments creates downstream costs across remediation, asset management, fisheries, tourism, aquaculture, public health and environmental restoration. SAWI Water Innovation develops modular infrastructure intended to intervene closer to the source while creating measurable evidence of what has been captured and where it originated. This creates the foundation for a scalable commercial model built around:
- environmental assessment and program design
- engineered system deployment
- filtration media supply and replacement
- diagnostics and monitoring
- retrieval and maintenance
- environmental reporting and verification
- regional licensing and delivery partnerships
- circular recovery of captured materials
The objective is not simply to sell filtration media. The objective is to own and scale the operating architecture around prevention-first water resilience.
More than a filtration technology
The competitive proposition is the integration of
technology + deployment + evidence + recovery.
1. Prevention-first infrastructure
SAWI Water Innovation targets pollution before it disperses through larger environmental systems, where intervention becomes more complex and expensive.
2. Modular and retrievable deployment
Systems can be configured as booms, curtains, cages, cartridges, diagnostic devices and other engineered installations appropriate to site conditions.
3. Low-energy intervention
Many applications are designed around passive or low-energy physical interception rather than permanent chemical treatment infrastructure.
4. Environmental intelligence
Captured material can be analysed to help characterise pollutant loads, identify contamination patterns and inform subsequent intervention.
5. Recurring commercial relationships
Deployment can create continuing demand for monitoring, media replacement, servicing, retrieval, reporting and recovery.
6. Circular recovery
SAWI Water Innovation is developing pathways intended to move captured material away from conventional disposal and toward responsible recovery and reuse wherever technically, environmentally and legally appropriate.
7. Scalable operating architecture
SAWI Water Innovation's PAGE™, PEA™ and SHIELD™ frameworks provide a structured methodology for adapting materials, engineering deployment and managing environmental intelligence across different contaminants and jurisdictions.
Our investment proposition is evidence-led.
SAWI Water Innovation does not believe environmental technology should be scaled on marketing claims alone. Its commercial pathway is: Test → Validate → Deploy → Measure → Improve → Scale Current evidence includes controlled laboratory research, independent university work and field deployments involving the Gyroid™ interception platform.
SARDI testing
Controlled testing has demonstrated significant interception of algal particulates by Gyroid™ configurations, including results above 96% under specific test conditions.
University of Technology Sydney
Independent research investigated Gyroid™ media across PFOS, PFOA and PFHxS together with multiple metals and freshwater and marine conditions, providing an important independent evidence base for continued development.
Tuggerah Lakes field deployment
Field work in New South Wales recorded substantial hydrocarbon reduction, while subsequent analysis of deployed media identified captured contaminant loads including PFAS and metals.
Evidence discipline matters.
These results should not be interpreted as universal removal rates across every water body, contaminant concentration or deployment configuration. Performance is affected by environmental conditions, contact time, media configuration, flow, pollutant characteristics and deployment design. SAWI Water Innovation's commercial strategy is therefore to convert promising evidence into repeatable, independently verifiable performance under controlled deployment protocols. Any investment opportunity will be subject to appropriate legal documentation, investor eligibility requirements, due diligence and applicable law. Forecasts, pipeline opportunities, target economics and forward-looking statements involve assumptions and risks and should not be interpreted as guarantees of future performance.
FROM A PRODUCT TO A PLATFORM
The SAWI Water Innovation data loop
Every successful deployment has the potential to make the next deployment more intelligent.
CHARACTERISE
Understand the site, water conditions, pollutant profile and intervention objective.
INTERCEPT
Configure the appropriate media, engineering and deployment architecture.
MEASURE
Establish baseline conditions and measure performance during deployment.
RECOVER
Retrieve captured material and manage it through an appropriate treatment or circular pathway.
VERIFY
Document outcomes, methodology, chain of custody and environmental performance. Over time, this creates something strategically important: a growing evidence base linking contaminant type, site conditions, deployment configuration, loading behaviour, service intervals and environmental outcomes. The long-term moat is therefore broader than material IP alone. It is the combination of materials + engineering know-how + deployment data + environmental intelligence + recovery pathways + partner execution.
COMMERCIAL MODEL
Multiple revenue streams from each environmental intervention
SAWI Water Innovation is developing a diversified commercial model designed to generate revenue across the lifecycle of a deployment.
Project design & engineering
Site assessment, solution configuration and program architecture.
System deployment
Supply and installation of engineered interception infrastructure.
Media supply
Initial filtration media plus replacement and optimisation requirements.
Diagnostics & monitoring
Water-quality characterisation, pollutant analysis, measurement and reporting.
Operations & retrieval
Inspection, servicing, replacement, retrieval and project management.
Circular recovery
Responsible processing and potential value creation from recovered materials where feasible.
Licensing & regional partnerships
Local manufacturing, distribution, deployment and operating partnerships capable of accelerating international scale. The attraction of the model is the potential for initial infrastructure revenue to generate recurring media, monitoring, servicing and recovery revenue over the customer relationship.
WHERE SAWI WATER INNOVATION CAN SCALE
One platform. Multiple high-value water problems.
Stormwater
Interception of hydrocarbons, sediments, particulate pollutants, microplastics and other contaminant loads before discharge into receiving waters.
PFAS & Emerging Contaminants
Development of low-energy interception and treatment configurations for appropriate PFAS-related applications and contaminated water streams.
Harmful Algal Blooms
Physical interception of algal biomass and associated organic loading as one component of broader bloom-management and environmental resilience strategies.
Ports & Shipping
Pollution interception, marina applications, hydrocarbons and emerging applications around ballast and port water quality.
Aquaculture
Water-quality protection, environmental monitoring and intervention around sensitive production environments.
Desalination & Industrial Water
Potential pre-treatment, polishing and contaminant-interception applications around complex water infrastructure.
Mining & Resources
Contaminated runoff, hydrocarbons, metals, suspended material and water-management applications.
Coastal & Catchment Resilience
Integrated source-to-waterway programs linking diagnostics, interception, monitoring and recovery.
GLOBAL COMMERCIALISATION
Prove locally. Replicate through partners. Scale internationally.
SAWI Water Innovation is developing commercial pathways across priority water-stressed and contamination-sensitive markets.
Australia
Stormwater, catchment management, PFAS, coastal resilience, aquaculture and government-led water programs.
India
Urban drainage, industrial water, catchment remediation and locally delivered environmental infrastructure through strategic partnerships.
West Africa
Municipal, industrial, mining and community water opportunities using regional execution partners and government engagement pathways.
Saudi Arabia & the Middle East
Marine resilience, desalination, coastal development and water-innovation opportunities.
United States
Lake, river, catchment and large-scale environmental remediation opportunities, including western US water systems.
Pipeline transparency
SAWI Water Innovation maintains a developing international pipeline spanning different stages of maturity.
Pipeline does not equal contracted revenue.
Opportunities may range from strategic discussions and technical evaluation through to proposed pilots, partnership arrangements and commercially advanced programs.
Investor diligence materials classify opportunities by status, counterparty, expected pathway, next action and probability rather than presenting the aggregate pipeline as guaranteed revenue.
That discipline is important to us.
THE SCALE-UP OPPORTUNITY
Moving from technical evidence to repeatable commercial infrastructure
SAWI Water Innovation has moved beyond the question:
“Can this technology capture pollutants?”
The next stage is about proving:
“Can SAWI Water Innovation repeatedly manufacture, deploy, measure and monetise those outcomes across multiple customers and jurisdictions?”
That is the purpose of the next capital phase.
The priority is execution—not uncontrolled expansion.
CAPITAL OBJECTIVE
Seeking US$5–10 million in strategic growth capital
SAWI Water Innovation is seeking investment to accelerate commercialisation, manufacturing capability and deployment across priority markets.
Investment may be structured and staged around agreed commercial milestones.
Indicative allocation of growth capital
40% — Manufacturing scale-up & inventory
Build repeatable supply, quality assurance and deployment-ready inventory.
25% — Commercial pilots & international activation
Convert priority opportunities into measurable deployments and establish repeatable regional delivery models.
20% — Team & operating capability
Strengthen engineering, project delivery, commercial management, finance and reporting.
15% — Regulatory, IP & working capital
Protect intellectual property, strengthen regulatory readiness and maintain disciplined working-capital capacity.
WHAT CAPITAL SHOULD PROVE
Investment will be measured against milestones—not simply activity.
Key scale-up milestones include:
- converting priority opportunities into paid deployments
- establishing repeatable manufacturing specifications and QA
- measuring contaminant loading and media service intervals
- validating deployment-level unit economics
- demonstrating recurring media and servicing revenue
- expanding independent technical validation
- converting successful pilots into multi-site programs
- strengthening regulatory and compliance pathways
- creating investor-grade financial and operational reporting
- demonstrating repeatable deployment across more than one jurisdiction
The objective is to turn technical potential into bankable commercial evidence.
CAPITAL OBJECTIVE
THE INVESTOR WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Strategic capital can accelerate more than the balance sheet.
SAWI Water Innovation welcomes discussions with investors capable of contributing capital, market access, infrastructure capability or strategic relationships.
This may include:
- water and environmental infrastructure investors
- climate and sustainability funds
- strategic industrial investors
- family offices
- sovereign and development-linked investors
- infrastructure and engineering groups
- water utilities and technology companies
- corporate venture investors
- impact investors seeking measurable environmental outcomes
We are particularly interested in investors who understand that environmental infrastructure businesses are built through validation, procurement, disciplined project delivery and repeatability—not simply technology promotion.
Supporting investment through opportunities
India - opportunities
USA - SALTON sea & Alarivean
India offers scalable river interception, circular infrastructure, and local manufacturing through a Goa Centre of Excellence, targeting Ganga basin pollution with repeatable, high-impact deployment models.
USA - SALTON sea & Alarivean
USA - SALTON sea & Alarivean
SAWI Water Innovation (SAWI) and Alarivean operate as complementary partners delivering a system-scale water remediation platform—combining pollution interception (SAWI) with large-scale in-water nanobubble treatment (Alarivean) and circular recovery.
Ocean Impact Port of San Diego Challenge
SAWI Water Innovation’s selection as a finalist reflects the strength of its submission and its potential to deliver meaningful, scalable water quality outcomes for port environments.
West Africa And Beyond
Engagement with Nana Yaw Ampen Darko Jnr unlocks strategic entry into West Africa, enabling partnerships, pilots, and scalable water remediation and circular economy opportunities across Ghana and broader regional markets.
KSA - SWIC & 1K Mile
KSA - SWIC & 1K Mile
Engagement with Neo Mining Technology (NMT), Dr Fawaz Linjawi, and SWIC through the 1K Mile initiative presents significant opportunities across Saudi Arabia and emerging markets, including mining, water remediation, and industrial applications. These partnerships enable pilot deployments, strategic investment pathways, and scalable infrastructure projects, positioning SAWI to integrate its technologies into large-scale regional programmes aligned with sustainability and resource recovery objectives.
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KSA - SWIC & 1K Mile
Engagement with Meliora ESG and James Alexander provides access to UK and European ESG capital, policy frameworks, and impact networks, supporting SAWI’s scalable deployment. This partnership aligns water remediation with sustainable finance, enabling pilots and infrastructure investment, including ballast water solutions, while addressing fly dumping and environmental liabilities through measurable risk mitigation outcomes increasingly relevant to insurers and regulators.
Evidence regarding this filtration technology was referenced by the NSW Parliamentary PFAS Select Committee (2025).
"Sadekar Enviro Engineers Pvt Ltd (India) identified measurable improvements across multiple water-quality indicators using SAWI's Gyroid filtration material. These included COD, BOD, TSS, ammonia and total nitrogen, supporting evidence for further commercial validation and field deployment."
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