Funding sources to date
The Water Awareness Initiative launched in 2026 as the educational arm of Poseidon Solutions, LLC, a U.S. water services company. Poseidon Solutions funds the initiative's site, hosting, editorial payroll, and operations. We disclose this in the first paragraph of every transparency report because trust in water reporting depends on knowing who pays for it.
- Poseidon Solutions, LLC: operating funder. Covers site development, hosting, editorial payroll, and day-to-day operations. Subject to the editorial firewall described below.
- Individual donations: 0 received as of report period.
- Foundation grants: 0 received as of report period. Outreach to environmental-health foundations in progress.
- Earned revenue: 0. The initiative does not sell products, run advertising, or accept affiliate compensation.
The editorial firewall
Poseidon Solutions, LLC is the initiative's parent and operating funder. Poseidon does not — and under the initiative's editorial policy cannot — review, edit, approve, or veto any article, score, or report before publication. The firewall is written, internal, and applies to every member of Poseidon's leadership.
Funder conditions we will not accept
From any funder, including the parent, the initiative will not accept money tied to:
- Editorial influence over which contaminants, utilities, or topics get covered
- Advance review or approval of any article or score before publication
- Takedown rights over any published article or correction
- Favorable scoring or framing of any specific utility, manufacturer, technology, or product
- Suppression of any contaminant, region, or public-health finding
- Any expectation that coverage be coordinated with commercial activity
Where a Poseidon Solutions commercial activity overlaps with initiative editorial coverage (for example, filtration technology Poseidon sells), the article will disclose the relationship in the article itself — not buried in a footer.
Editorial independence commitments
- No paid sponsorship of editorial content. No article, contaminant page, or news piece is written in coordination with or at the request of any external party.
- No advance review. No funder, partner, or external party reviews articles before publication.
- No takedowns by request. Once published, articles are corrected only for factual error, not for funder discomfort. Corrections are logged publicly at /methodology#corrections.
- Disclosure when relevant. Any potential conflict of interest will be disclosed in the article itself, not buried in a footer.
Operating costs
The initiative runs lean. The largest line items are hosting (Vercel, Supabase), email service (Resend), domain registration, and any commissioned editorial review. The initiative does not currently compensate editorial reviewers; this will change as funding allows.
Annual reporting cadence
We publish a transparency update at minimum once per fiscal year. Material changes (a new institutional funder, a change in funding policy, a personnel change affecting editorial control) are disclosed within 30 days of the change.
Questions
Email transparency@waterawarenessinitiative.com with any question about funding, governance, or editorial independence. We will respond and, where appropriate, update this page.