People
Built by people stubborn enough to keep going.
Waterfountain isn't a company that appeared. It's a handful of people who spent ten years on a dock, on a boat, and in the water - refusing to let the ocean win.
The founder
Rolf
Rolf saw the problem the way an engineer sees a problem - not as a crisis, but as a question of physics. Why spend energy creating pressure when the ocean already has it?
That question became a prototype, the prototype became a decade of field testing, and the decade became Waterfountain. Through every broken unit and winter night on the water, the answer stayed the same: keep going.
"The ocean rejected everything that wasn't true. What survived is what works."
In the field
On the water, where the work happens
A small team. A long horizon. An ocean that doesn't negotiate.
Waterfountain is built by engineers, field operators, and partners who believe the future of fresh water is in the sea - and that the way to get it out is to work with the water, not against it.
Our partners & investors