Grundfos, a global leader in advanced pump and water solutions, today announced it has assumed a co-champion role within the Water Resilience Coalition for the Colorado River Basin. The role reinforces Grundfos’ commitment to accelerating investment, coordination, and practical solutions that secure water reliability for the communities, industries, and economies that depend on the river.
The announcement builds on Grundfos’ role as a founding partner of Run the River: Colorado, the campaign led by Mina Guli, one of the leading global voices on water, who has spent more than a decade convening action through Thirst. Beginning on June 18, Mina will run 2,000 miles down the entire length of the Colorado River to spotlight what is at stake for the American West. While the run draws national attention, the partnership with the Water Resilience Coalition is focused on translating urgency into action by mobilizing collective investment and measurable progress.
The Colorado River provides water security for 40 million people, supports 16 million jobs, and drives more than 1.4 trillion dollars in annual economic activity across cities, agriculture, energy, manufacturing, tourism, and Tribal Nations. As drought, overuse, and aging infrastructure intensify, strengthening the resilience of the river has become an economic necessity. Failing to act puts livelihoods, supply chains, and long-term growth across the region at risk.
By stepping into the co-champion role, Grundfos will work with coalition partners to combine awareness with coordinated action focused on modernizing water systems, improving efficiency, and reducing losses across the river’s interconnected municipalities, industries, and agricultural regions.
“Keeping the Colorado River running is not only an environmental challenge, it is an economic imperative,” said Ulrik Gernow, Group Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Grundfos. “This river underpins jobs, communities, and growth across the American West. Through our co-champion role, we are committing to help align business, communities, and institutions around solutions that strengthen water reliability and support long term economic resilience.”
The Water Resilience Coalition is a CEO led initiative bringing together 40 companies representing more than five trillion dollars in market capitalization to drive corporate action on water stress. As co-champion for the Colorado River, Grundfos will collaborate with coalition peers, NGOs, utilities, and local stakeholders to help convene action and accelerate progress where it matters most.
“I’ve run along rivers around the world, and I’ve seen what happens when they run dry,” said Mina Guli. “The Colorado River has sustained life across the West for generations. Now, it needs everyone to come together to save it. Partnerships like this one are how urgency turns into the commitments that matter.”
Together, Thirst, Grundfos, and the Water Resilience Coalition will convene a series of regional summits this summer in communities along the river route, including Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. The summits will bring together business leaders, utilities, farmers, Tribal Nations, and policymakers to advance practical steps that improve efficiency, lower long term costs, and strengthen water systems critical to regional economic stability.
Through this partnership, Grundfos continues to position itself as a convener and catalyst for action, focused on investing in the water infrastructure that sustains communities, economic activity, and long-term growth across the American West.
About Grundfos
Grundfos pioneers solutions to the world’s water and climate challenges and improves the quality of life for people. As a leading global pump and water solutions company, we promise to respect, protect, and advance the flow of water by providing energy and water efficient solutions and systems for water utilities, industries, and buildings worldwide. Learn more at www.grundfos.com.
About the Water Resilience Coalition
The Water Resilience Coalition is an industry driven, CEO led initiative of the CEO Water Mandate. It focuses on preserving the world’s freshwater resources through collective action in water stressed regions and ambitious, measurable commitments.
About the UN Global Compact
As a special initiative of the United Nations Secretary-General, the UN Global Compact is a call to companies worldwide to align their operations and strategies with Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. Our vision is clear: to mobilize business to transform sustainability ambition into action at the scale the world demands. With more than 25,000 participants and a presence in over 100 countries through 5 Regional Hubs and more than 70 Country Networks and expansion territories, the UN Global Compact is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative.
About Thirst
Thirst is a not-for-profit organisation founded by Mina Guli in 2012 to drive awareness and action on water. Through ambitious global campaigns, Thirst mobilises communities, companies and policymakers to push water higher up the agenda and accelerate progress on Sustainable Development Goal 6: Water for All. Thirst campaigns have built a global water community active in more than 200 countries and territories.
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