P&G Innovation Brief – The 50 Lt Home: Making Responsible Consumption of Residential Water Possible
P&G Startup Innovation Brief Call for Startup Submissions
Procter & Gamble is looking for new approaches and technologies that can
help them address key business challenges/opportunities. The following innovation brief(s)
will provide a high-level overview of specific business goals and needs, as well as a high-level
overview of what they are looking for in a solution.
If you would like to submit a solution, please go to the P&G Innovation Brief Response Form –
and complete the form with the requested information.
Submission Detail:
Brief Submission Period: May 15th – June 12th, 2020
Brand or Department: P&G Signal Accelerator, Corporate Innovation
Opportunity for Innovation Partner(s): Pilot Funding & Access to P&G sustainability team
Process Overview:
● Complete the P&G Innovation Brief Response Form –
● All responses will be reviewed, and you will be notified as to whether the response has been
accepted for further consideration.
● If accepted, you will be contacted by a Pilot44 Research Analyst to schedule a meeting to
present additional detail on your company and solution as well as, where applicable, to provide a
demonstration of your product.
● If contacted for next steps, additional detail on the client needs will be provided during at
that time, as well as additional information on the review, selection and reward process.
● You can send any specific questions to submissions@pilot44.com
P&G Signal Innovation Brief Overview
Brief Name: The 50 Lt Home: Making Responsible Consumption of Residential Water Possible
Business Background
P&G recognizes consumers want brands that both meet their traditional value and performance
expectations, whilst help solve some of our world’s most complex social and environmental
challenges. P&G is committed to ensuring that social and environmental sustainability are an
integral part of our brand’s core equity, and overall central to P&G’s mission.
At P&G, 70% of our products require the use of water – and 70% of our Green House Gas footprint is
in consumers’ home hot water use, a product of both freshwater consumption and greenhouse gases
produced from heating water. We have the opportunity to get smarter about water by using new
technologies that reuse, purify, and sanitize much of the water that gets discharged within homes.
Imagine if we could enable people to reuse 50L of water per day that feels like 500L. The 50L Home
is an initiative and coalition spearheaded by P&G to bring awareness to and develop innovative
solutions for responsible water/energy consumption in urban homes. The urgency is further
accelerating today in the face of the impending global water crisis. Through the lens of the
United Nations Sustainable Development, the 50L Home seeks to impact Goals #6, #12, and #16.
Business Challenge:
How can P&G enable consumers to do radically more with radically less water and energy use? How
can we make invisible use of water & energy visible, right at the point of use? How might we
particularly address the triangle of tension that exists between improving sanitization, reducing
water & energy, whilst keeping the feeling of abundance of using water?. From incremental
evolution to product innovation, easy-retrofit water-infrastructure changes (taps, faucets,
showerheads, etc.) and water appliances that aim at both reducing (hot) water and
re-using/purifying/enriching (hot) water, we want to partner!
The Ask:
If you have a solution to partner with us, please submit a summary of your solution, approach and/or technologies that can help bring sustainable products and practices to the world. Please indicate how you would propose pilot testing your solution. We look forward to partnering with you. All ideas and submissions will be fully reviewed.