As the Director and Founder of ARI Water Solutions, I have over 15 years of experience in developing and implementing a new, highly disruptive mass water filtration technology that uses the existing stormwater infrastructure to address urban waterway pollution and opening up stormwater as a future water source working towards water security. My credentials are I left school in Year 11 to take on a Motor Mechanic Apprenticeship. Later I worked for 10 years in the dredging industry starting as a deck hand working up to 2nd Marine Engineer where I learnt (unknowingly) a lot about reclamation how water and sediments move with water and the waste we were digging up out of harbours 25 years later is the same waste I have found in the 16,000 drains I have opened in Australian and around the world. My core competencies include invention, innovation, product development, and relationship building with various stakeholders in a highly complex industry due to their being no solution to stormwater at a global stage since the infrastructures invention some 200 years ago We have successfully completed 8 years of in-the-field testing with 6 different local councils, 5 years of testing at a large government-owned public marina other applications. The science backing our technology was paramount during the journey with a joint industry PhD carried out at Curtin University (top 1% globally) that won the coveted Chancellors Award for Science and Engineering. My mission in the beginning was to fix the reason all urban waterways around the world in developed nations are now toxic. The more I read, the more I spoke, the more interaction with people from around the world we are now facing the fight for humanity via the death of our major oxygen production mechanism on earth - the ocean.