European Investor
28 Sep 2026, 18:51
AWS and The Nature Conservancy Partner to Scale AI-Powered Stormwater Management
Amazon Web Services and The Nature Conservancy’s Brightstorm program announced a strategic collaboration to expand data-driven stormwater management using cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence and real-time sensor networks.
At the center of the partnership is Brightstorm’s Smart Watershed Network Management framework, which combines AI, weather forecasting and smart sensors to manage stormwater across entire watersheds. AWS will provide the cloud and AI infrastructure needed to scale the system and make its data and tools more accessible to planners, policymakers and water managers.
The collaboration will also support Alluvia, a free open-source platform designed to build, host and scale smart watershed tools. AWS is providing the cloud infrastructure behind the platform, with a focus on scalability, reliability and security.
One of the first real-world deployments will take place around Florida’s Indian River Lagoon, where stormwater pollution threatens water quality and biodiversity. The pilot will connect stormwater ponds into an intelligent network designed to improve flood control and reduce pollution.
The partnership reflects AWS’s broader push to apply cloud and AI technologies to environmental infrastructure, while Brightstorm aims to turn aging stormwater systems into more adaptive and data-driven networks that can eventually be replicated across the U.S. and other markets.
Amazon Web Services and The Nature Conservancy’s Brightstorm program announced a strategic collaboration to expand data-driven stormwater management using cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence and real-time sensor networks.
At the center of the partnership is Brightstorm’s Smart Watershed Network Management framework, which combines AI, weather forecasting and smart sensors to manage stormwater across entire watersheds. AWS will provide the cloud and AI infrastructure needed to scale the system and make its data and tools more accessible to planners, policymakers and water managers.
The collaboration will also support Alluvia, a free open-source platform designed to build, host and scale smart watershed tools. AWS is providing the cloud infrastructure behind the platform, with a focus on scalability, reliability and security.
One of the first real-world deployments will take place around Florida’s Indian River Lagoon, where stormwater pollution threatens water quality and biodiversity. The pilot will connect stormwater ponds into an intelligent network designed to improve flood control and reduce pollution.
The partnership reflects AWS’s broader push to apply cloud and AI technologies to environmental infrastructure, while Brightstorm aims to turn aging stormwater systems into more adaptive and data-driven networks that can eventually be replicated across the U.S. and other markets.
