Partners & Licensing

We license our technology to strategic operating partners.

RHST Industries is the technology and IP company behind WaterPearls. Deployment at scale happens through licensed partners — water and environmental-services operators, infrastructure developers and agricultural distributors who run WaterPearls programs in their territories.

The models

Three ways to work with RHST.

01 · Operating licence

Run WaterPearls in your territory.

A licence to deploy WaterPearls programs — field agriculture, reservoir covers and WRIA™ projects — in a defined territory or sector, with RHST training, engineering support and product supply.

02 · Project partnership

Co-develop a WRIA™.

Develop a Water Replenishment Infrastructure Agreement with us — pairing a data-center offtaker, the basin's water agencies and your operating capability under one 25-year contract.

03 · Distribution

Bring WaterPearls to your growers.

Regional distribution for agriculture — orchards, vines, nurseries and greenhouses — backed by RHST deployment know-how and field data.

What RHST brings

A licensable system, not just a product.

  • A patented system — U.S. patent 9,901,043, granted in 2018, with the water-retention patent family filed since 2013
  • A manufactured product with a 50-year service life and field deployments in five countries since 2016
  • A verification framework — VWBA 2.0 water-benefit accounting and an ISO 14046-based Water Impact Report prepared by Oxia Initiative
  • Independent recognition — NCPD Innovative Technology Excellence Prize 2025, Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label (2020 and 2023) and VivaTech 2026 Top 400 Tech for Change
WaterPearls mats deployed in an almond orchard, with in-ground moisture instrumentation
What we look for

The right partner profile.

  • An operating footprint where water is scarce — North America, southern Europe, MENA, Australia
  • Field-services or engineering capability to install and maintain deployments
  • The balance sheet and customer base for long-term infrastructure contracts
  • Shared discipline on measurement — metered results and third-party verification
A reservoir held in green watershed hills
Licensing

Explore a licence for your market.

Tell us your territory, sector and operating capability — we'll come back with the licensing models that fit.