AquaHub

We are… AquaHub 🌊🌍🛰️

Amid rising flood risks, water scarcity, and increasing European regulation, planning infrastructure has become a real challenge for public servants. Making informed, fair decisions in complex water systems isn’t easy, especially under time pressure.

The data to support these decisions already exists, but it’s often fragmented, technical, and hard to use in practice.

At AquaHub, we help local governments turn that data into action. By leveraging satellite data, we enable decision-makers to detect potential conflicts in water systems and plan infrastructure more effectively in water-sensitive areas.

As the demand for housing and development grows, alongside the need for fair and sustainable water allocation, it’s becoming urgent to equip planners with the right tools.

Our web platform makes satellite-derived insights accessible and usable for everyday decision-making. Today, AquaHub is the only platform that combines Copernicus Earth observation data with Irish infrastructure planning workflows in a simple, actionable way.

🛰️ Our link to EU space technologies

At AquaHub, we selected tools and datasets that make water-related insights usable for infrastructure planning.

We rely on Sentinel-2 L1C data from the Copernicus Programme, using a moisture index to estimate soil conditions. This provides high-resolution, frequently updated, and standardized data, which is essential for identifying local water constraints early in the planning process.

We process this data in QGIS to extract soil moisture spatial data across Ireland, and deliver it through Streamlit as an interactive, easy-to-use platform. This allows planners to move from complex satellite data to clear, actionable insights. 

🌊 EU Space for Water

At AquaHub, we want to help secure equitable and efficient access to water

Water resources are under increasing pressure as the natural water cycle becomes more unstable. Floods, droughts, and extreme events are happening more often and with greater intensity across Europe and beyond. For local governments, planning how water is allocated and managed in the years ahead is becoming urgent. At the same time, policymakers face growing pressure from EU and national regulations to deliver fast and reliable decisions.

The data to support these decisions already exists at both national and European levels. Yet it is rarely used to its full potential. When it is used, it often remains complex and difficult to interpret, making it hard for public servants to rely on it with confidence.

Infrastructure and urban planning decisions are not straightforward. A new warehouse might bring jobs and economic growth, but it can also raise concerns about noise, environmental impact, and water use. Add regulatory constraints like the EU Water Framework Directive and 2030 targets, and decision-making quickly becomes overwhelming. It is difficult to keep the bigger picture in focus.

So the question is simple. How can we help local governments use space data to make better infrastructure decisions while securing the future of water resources? How do we empower decisionmakers to manage water resources, as fair and equitable as can be?

AquaHub addresses this challenge by turning complex satellite data into clear, actionable insights for planners.

🤼 Team

Eline Coustenoble - Project Manager : Strong from her experience as a coach for social entrepreneurs and student of complexity science, Eline transforms insights into action to bring a project to its full potential. 

Gamaliel Kan - Business Analytics Director :  As a versatilist, Gamaliel is an essential asset to the team's business strategy and changing raw-data into actionable insights. 

Johannes Müller - Data Architect : Geospatial data doesn't have any secret for Johannes. With this challenge, he utilizes his theoritical background into a project with concrete impacts.

Sona Maharjan - Head Data Scientist : With her dozen of program languages, Sona brings a wide variety of skills, always ready to adapt and make an idea into reality.

Quinta Revana - Outreach Manager : After her experience in multiple international non-profits, Quinta has an extensive portfolio in turning mission into narratives that the people hear, and believe.