A utility director carries five researchable problems they will never write up. A professor picks topics from citation trails. This exchange connects them: the industry posts reviewed problem statements, registered researchers adopt them, and the findings come home as living knowledge in the Graph, credited to everyone who touched them.
Anyone in the field can post: utilities, governments, consultants, vendors, operators. The structure is the quality bar, a steward review is the gate, and published problems reach every registered researcher. If it keeps breaking, it belongs here.
Registration is free, forever, and for .edu and .gov addresses it is INSTANT: your domain checks against the official registries (Educause accreditation for .edu, the CISA registry for .gov), you click one confirmation link, and full access unlocks. Other domains get a same-day human check. Verified researchers see author contacts and co-signer details, adopt problems in their lab's name, and carry credit all the way into the Graph. This roster, organized by what the industry actually needs, is the list that has never existed.
Universities each hold a page in the Water Directory with their research ledger: problems adopted, work in progress, presentations given. Research is shared by reference only; we link to your work and never host it. Findings that operationalize become credited pages in The One Water Graph.