Achievements by iWater

From prestigious awards to impactful grants, explore how our commitment to pioneering solutions is making a difference in the global landscape of water and soil management.

2025 Energy Educator of the Year. SAEE (South African Energy Efficiency) Confederation.
2022/3 – National Geographic – Sampling of the deep subsurface biology and the search for an enigmatic worm – co-PI with Geatan Borgonie. (Namibia and Botswana expeditions).
2020: National Geographic Grant and film documentary:  SA principle group on searching the subsurface for novel bacteria and an enigmatic worm.

CEA (Circular Economy Accelerator) Fetola Growth program from November 2021 to April 2022. Finalist.

2019:  Top Intellectual Property Creator, received from the Department of Science and Technology awarded by NIPMO.
2018/9: Finalist and winner of the GROUNDSWELL Africa, Fetola, and JP  Morgan Business Growth of Professionals Programme.
2018/9: Finalist and overall runner-up: GCIP (Global Cleantech) Innovation
Programme and Best women-led team: GCIP (Global Cleantech)
Innovation Programme.
2018: Winner of the CleanTech Division presentations at the South
Africa Innovation Summit in Cape Town.
2018: Presenting a lecture series on the application and exploration of
novelties in microbial communities – JIS University and India Coal
Industry, Kolkata.
2018: Keynote presentation on South African Deep Mine projects at the
inaugural symposium of the new International Centre for Deep
Life Investigation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, followed
by the Deep Life community meeting. 

Achievements

From prestigious awards to impactful grants, explore how our commitment to pioneering solutions is making a difference in the global landscape of water and soil management.

2025 Energy Educator of the Year. SAEE (South African Energy Efficiency) Confederation.

2022/3 – National Geographic – Sampling of the deep subsurface biology and the search for an enigmatic worm – co-PI with Geatan Borgonie. (Namibia and Botswana expeditions).
2020: National Geographic Grant and film documentary:  SA principle group on searching the subsurface for novel bacteria and an enigmatic worm.

CEA (Circular Economy Accelerator) Fetola Growth program from November 2021 to April 2022. Finalist.

2019:  Top Intellectual Property Creator, received from the Department of Science and Technology awarded by NIPMO.
2018/9: Finalist and winner of the GROUNDSWELL Africa, Fetola, and JP  Morgan Business Growth of Professionals Programme.
⦁ CEA (Circular Economy Accelerator) Fetola Growth program from November 2021 to April 2022. Finalist.
2018/9: Finalist and overall runner-up: GCIP (Global Cleantech) Innovation
Programme and Best women-led team: GCIP (Global Cleantech)
Innovation Programme.
2018: Winner of the CleanTech Division presentations at the South
Africa Innovation Summit in Cape Town.
2018: Presenting a lecture series on the application and exploration of
novelties in microbial communities – JIS University and India Coal
Industry, Kolkata.
2018: Keynote presentation on South African Deep Mine projects at the
inaugural symposium of the new International Centre for Deep
Life Investigation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, followed
by the Deep Life community meeting.