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Water On Demand The Future Runs On Water™ — Creating the first opportunity zone fund for water infrastructure

Utah passed a law this year that lets developers erase water-rights protests by withdrawing their application and refili...
05/26/2026

Utah passed a law this year that lets developers erase water-rights protests by withdrawing their application and refiling it clean. A 40,000-acre data center just tried it.

Stratos, the Kevin O'Leary-backed campus The Verge calls the biggest ever built, withdrew its water request on May 5 and wiped 3,900 formal protests in one filing. The mechanism is HB 60, signed in February, which stripped two of the grounds Utahns used to fight water transfers. The bet was simple: reset the clock, and the opposition fades.

It didn't. Stratos refiled, and fresh protests poured in within days. A May 14 rally had already put 7,000 signatures on the governor's desk, and another is set for the Capitol steps on May 23. You can repeal the paperwork. You can't repeal the opposition. And when the legal process for contesting water gets gutted, the case for supply outside that process gets stronger.

A water utility in Michigan just hit pause on data center hookups for a full year. Not the city council. The utility's o...
05/09/2026

A water utility in Michigan just hit pause on data center hookups for a full year. Not the city council. The utility's own board.

On April 22, the Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority voted a 12-month moratorium on water and sewer service for hyperscale data centers, AI computing facilities, and high-performance computational centers. Two pending projects would have consumed 1.5 million gallons per day combined: a $1.2B U Michigan/Los Alamos facility at roughly 500,000 gallons, and a $1B Thor Equities facility in Augusta Township at roughly 1 million.

Brenda Stumbo, the Ypsilanti Township Supervisor, put it plainly: "Two large data centers could take our capacity just like that."

The notable part isn't the politics. It's the layer. This wasn't an environmental group, a zoning fight, or a state legislature. It was the utility itself, the operator closest to the pipes and the pressure data, saying no. When the people who run the system are the ones drawing the line, the constraint isn't rhetorical anymore. It's physical.

Source: https://www.wndu.com/2026/04/27/michigan-utility-oks-12-month-ban-supplying-water-data-centers/

Rox Capital just sold Scruggs Water Infrastructure to The Sterling Group. Flow control products and municipal water and ...
05/07/2026

Rox Capital just sold Scruggs Water Infrastructure to The Sterling Group. Flow control products and municipal water and wastewater maintenance across the Southern and Midwestern US. Built by combining The Scruggs Companies with Neil Technical Services. Sold to a Houston industrial PE firm.

This is not a tech deal. Not new construction. Not anything that gets written up as innovation. It is the boring middle of water infrastructure, pipes, pumps, valves, the crews that keep them running, moving from one private equity owner to another.

That detail matters. When PE firms start trading the unsexy maintenance layer of an industry between themselves, it means the cash flows are reliable enough to underwrite, the operating playbooks are repeatable enough to scale, and the exits are clean enough to model. The boring part of water now has its own PE exit cycle.

Deal price wasn't disclosed. But the signal is the transaction itself: institutional capital has decided municipal water maintenance is a category worth owning, holding, and selling.

For accredited investors mapping the water infrastructure thesis: https://offer.waterondemand.com

KKR and XPV Water Partners just sold their water-quality roll-up Axius to CRH for $700 million.That's the headline numbe...
05/07/2026

KKR and XPV Water Partners just sold their water-quality roll-up Axius to CRH for $700 million.

That's the headline number. The more interesting part is what it confirms.

Axius was formed in 2019 and built through targeted acquisitions. Six years from formation to a $700M exit to a NYSE-listed strategic buyer. Water infrastructure is no longer a niche thesis — it is a proven PE category with a printed exit multiple.

Water On Demand sits in the same category, earlier in the curve. Decentralized utility infrastructure, recurring contracted revenue, the same structural tailwinds that pulled Axius to a strategic buyer.

The exit print is the validation. The entry point is still open.

Accredited investors can review the offering here: https://offer.waterondemand.com

Big news from Water On Demand.Our Gridwater investment offering is officially live on Fassport, a private markets platfo...
03/28/2026

Big news from Water On Demand.

Our Gridwater investment offering is officially live on Fassport, a private markets platform with more than 870 limited partners and 20 general partners.

Gridwater is mobile water treatment infrastructure. We own the systems. Licensed operators run them. And every single customer is required by law to treat their wastewater. That is not a market prediction. It is a regulatory fact.

The water treatment industry is worth hundreds of billions nationally. Gridwater is starting in Texas, where the market alone exceeds $20 billion, with national expansion to follow.

On April 7 at 11 AM ET, Gridwater Chairman Ken Berenger is hosting a virtual Investor Pitch Day. He will walk through the model, the market, the tax structure, and answer questions live.

Whether you are an investor, a financial advisor, or just curious about what infrastructure-backed investing looks like, this is worth showing up for.

Register here: gridwater.com/event/pitch-day

JUST ANNOUNCED: Formation-stage terms for Water On Demand's accredited investor offering are ending.Updated terms take e...
03/18/2026

JUST ANNOUNCED: Formation-stage terms for Water On Demand's accredited investor offering are ending.

Updated terms take effect as soon as counsel finalizes the documents -- could happen at any time.

What's changed since formation stage:
- Gridwater launched, anchor investment secured
- $200M Opportunity Zone fund live
- QSBS qualification -- potential 100% tax-free upside
- First mobile wastewater units deploying
- PWT manufacturing up 63%

The formation stage is over. We're funding ex*****on now.

Accredited investors: offer.waterondemand.com

JUST ANNOUNCED: Gridwater orders its first next-gen mobile wastewater treatment unit.5 units deploying in Austin. First ...
03/11/2026

JUST ANNOUNCED: Gridwater orders its first next-gen mobile wastewater treatment unit.

5 units deploying in Austin. First one goes live in May.

Treat-in-place means no more pump-and-haul. On-site processing for restaurants, food processors, and industrial facilities.

This is what "water as an asset class" looks like in practice.

waterondemand.com/company-news/gridwater-begins-phase-one-deployment-with-purchase-order-for-first-mobile-wastewater-treatment-unit/

Indiana's legislature just let a school drinking water testing bill die without a hearing.HB 1124 would have required ev...
03/10/2026

Indiana's legislature just let a school drinking water testing bill die without a hearing.

HB 1124 would have required every school in the state to test for lead. The House Public Health committee never brought it to a vote.

The communities with the oldest pipes and tightest budgets are left drinking untested water. That's the environmental justice gap playing out in real time.

Decentralized water treatment gives those communities control over their own water quality -- no waiting on state mandates that never come.

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Read the full announcement at waterondemand.com
03/10/2026

Read the full announcement at waterondemand.com

TODAY: Gridwater takes the stage at OZ Pitch Day.If you're an investor still locked into 10-year OZ holds, you need to h...
03/04/2026

TODAY: Gridwater takes the stage at OZ Pitch Day.

If you're an investor still locked into 10-year OZ holds, you need to hear what QSBS can do.

Shorter hold. Better tax treatment. Real cash flow from Day 1.

Register now: ozxchange.com/oz-pitch-day

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