What FLUSH Does
We bridge your impact work to the ultimate climate story–water
FLUSH started in 2018 in the water and sanitation sector. While we’ve grown and changed as a team we still know a lot about the technical aspects of water and sanitation. From mapping out flood impacts in sanitation to communicating business water needs to a city, from mapping local policies on greywater to surveying willingness to pay for recycled water, from designing a toilet to surveying a community’s response to it, we bring decades of sophisticated, nuanced, and grounded expertise. We also know how to translate that technical expertise into practical, actionable strategies, plans, communications, and impacts for our clients and their stakeholders. We connect operations and sustainability to water in ways your team and audience will understand and feel in real time.
In recent years, the private sector and its supply chain partners, as well as NGOs and nonprofits, have shifted water from just a reporting line to a keystone of impact. From global credit ratings that include water status in their risk rankings to EU and US states beginning to require Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) reporting on corporations' circular economy efforts, water is now recognized as central to climate resilience and as a real operational risk to businesses.
Through our technical expertise in water and sanitation, we help clients
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Assess and navigate the social impact in their watersheds, catchments, and basins through stakeholder engagement and assessments
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Improve water stewardship efforts through Alliance for Water Stewardship auditing and water stewardship project management
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Unite an integrated water management approach with their sustainability strategic plans
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Review water and sanitation services available in a watershed
Our global network of water and sanitation experts means no watershed is too difficult for us to map, and we ensure that, when dealing with water systems, we have a team built to understand your local context and interact comfortably with local stakeholders.
What CAN YOU EXPECT?
We ensure our approach meets your budget and watershed needs. We take time at the beginning to understand any limitations and key operational requirements, as well as your long-term goals regarding sanitation use and water governance. We are comfortable talking to community members, regulators, environmental advocacy groups, and any neighbors you need to work with to ensure your water strategy is sustainable, responsible, and achievable.
From this work, FLUSH can provide detailed stakeholder maps, watershed overview assessments, contextual background and perceptions of a specific stakeholder group, and legal and regulatory analyses to support your work.
Clarify goals
We begin with an in-depth look at what your goals are, where you are located, and what are your main pain points around water and sanitation
Gather INFO
We’ll look at what information you have and what you need to really understand your local water and sanitation contexts. Market research, stakeholder mapping, assessing and improving existing strategies — we can cover it all.
Create stories
Working with your team, we’ll co-develop clear and actionable water and sanitation stories with clear action points for you and your team to manage.
Depending on your needs, we can adjust our approach, from training your staff in how to understand the local context in water to creating templates to help you continue your water stewardship work in the future.
Design & run
We’ll design and help you implement impressive yet practical water and sanitation strategies for short- and medium-term success. .
We’ll wrap up with plans to sustain demand, so public buy-in for your work continues. We finish with clear, practical action points so you know your next steps.
Results from Work & Testimonials
Getting started
With most projects, we’ll have a chat about your needs, goals, timelines and budget, and put together a quote based on our packaged deliverables and an estimated work plan to complete your project. We keep detailed updates though, so you’re always in the loop.
We’re here to help you succeed, so we’ll make sure we have a clear scope of work and understanding of your requirements before any work begins. Grab our guide through the link below to get started.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why should we hire FLUSH over the other options available?
FLUSH boasts a unique combination of technical knowledge in storytelling, data systems, communications, and marketing. We also have world-class knowledge about water, sanitation, and climate/ Because we know and understand many ‘worlds’, our team of consultants can ensure everything we create for you is creative, practical, and business-oriented.
Also, while many of our competitors have to hire Westerners to work on programs in low- and middle-income countries in Africa and Asia, we also have a network of skilled local consultants with a variety of business specializations, who also have strong knowledge of local contexts—making our support more relevant for customers.
Lastly, FLUSH prides itself on asking difficult questions and finding new ways to do work based on evidence from other industries. We try to proactively inform the public and professionals about new ways to think about water, sanitation, an climate, and investigate how to improve efforts that are failing the sector.
Who would work with us from FLUSH?
We’ll match you with a consulting team based on your needs and location, so we can ensure whoever’s on the team supporting you is best equipped to understand your local context and specific requirements. Check out our list of key associates that you could work with.
Can you lower your quote prices for us?
At FLUSH, we try to accommodate different organizational resources while ensuring we can continue offering the same quality of services. While we can’t guarantee we’re within every budget, we’ll do our best to find a way to work within yours. Get in touch to chat more.
Do you help with sales teams?
We could! We believe that sales is part of the bigger marketing world, so it’s definitely something we can tackle.
Do you have educational content we can use with our audiences?
Let’s discuss more — we have a bunch of off-the-shelf content that we could offer through your organization to your audiences.
Is there anyone you don't or won't work with?
We work best with organizations whose values are in alignment with our own—so we'll have to pass on anything that would put us on the wrong side of our human rights values. Basically, if working with someone would put us in an ethical grey area, we won't take the work.
Are there any base criteria for working with FLUSH?
We don’t mind if the organization is brand new or really old, as long as it’s a legally registered company somewhere. The only things we require are that you have a clear set of services you provide, an existing website and/or social media accounts, and staff who can apply the work with us. We also strongly encourage that your leadership supports what we do and how we will collaborate on any project.