Indigenous majority-owned and controlled
Our Water. Our Hands.
Our Future.
Sovereign Pure is Indigenous majority-owned and controlled. We move an abundance of pure glacial water into a network our Nations own: the infrastructure, the jobs, the revenue, and the decisions.
Who we are
Built by Indigenous leadership.
Owned at every layer.
Sovereign Pure is led by our President & CEO, Valerie Vanderwyk, a Mi'kmaq leader who has spent her career opening doors for Indigenous people in skilled trades and education. We hold 51% ownership and control of the national company, and every community venture in our network is majority-owned by its Nation. Our supply partner, Arctic Freshwater, brings the water, the logistics, and the technology, and holds the minority position. That order is deliberate. Ownership is the point.
Meet our leadership
Why water
Water is life. Access to it should never depend on someone else.
For generations, our communities have lived under advisories, hauled water, and paid outside companies for water that moves through our own territories. Water carries responsibility, to family, to community, to the generations coming. Sovereign Pure exists so that responsibility comes with authority: safe drinking water our Nations control, from the day it arrives to the decades after.
Decades
of long-term drinking water advisories.
58%
of failures are operational, not missing infrastructure.
The Shift
From extraction to equity.
Today
The community is a customer.
- Every dollar spent on water leaves.
- No assets. No jobs.
- Advisories persist while contracts renew.
With Sovereign Pure
The Nation is the majority owner.
- Revenue, wages, and assets stay home.
- Depots run by our own people.
- Infrastructure that belongs to the community, permanently.
The three-layer model
Ownership at every layer.
A supply chain and a governance structure, engineered together, so majority Indigenous control exists at every step from source to sip.
Explore the model- 01
Global Supply Backbone
Arctic Freshwater - Icelandic glacial water, 24,000L flexitank logistics.
- 02
National Indigenous Engine
Sovereign Pure - the national engine, Indigenous majority-owned and controlled. Funding, standards, brand, and replication for the whole network.
- 03
Community-Owned JVs
Each Nation holds 51% of its local venture. Local jobs, revenue, control.
The system
Source to sip, one connected network.
Source
01
Bulk Logistics
02
Regional Hubs
03
Distribution
04
Community Depots
05
Monitoring
06
Certified pure at the hub. Tracked at every step. Reported to your community, transparently.
What your Nation receives
A working water system, and everything that comes with owning it.
Reliable drinking water in weeks, not construction years
A community depot staffed by your own people
18.9L jugs, bag-in-box, bulk and emergency supply
Training and certification pathways for local operators
Transparent monitoring your council and community can see
51% ownership of the venture, its assets, and its profits
How we work together
Nothing about a community
without the community.
No solution is designed before we sit together. Every engagement is co-designed with community leadership, guided by Free, Prior, and Informed Consent, and moves at the Nation's pace. Nations opt in, never the reverse. The community shapes its own venture and holds us to every commitment, because the community is the majority owner.
See the five stepsOur people
Every depot is a workplace.
Every route is a career.
The network is projected to create 870 to 1,610 direct Indigenous jobs at maturity: operators, drivers, depot managers, water quality technicians, logistics coordinators. Training and certification are built into every launch, with pathways for youth to grow into the work of water stewardship.
Jobs at maturity
870-1,610
Projected at full network maturity.
Faster than construction
A working system in weeks, at a fraction of the ongoing spend.
Multi-year build
Treatment plant
$9.8M - $58M one-time
Then decades of operations risk.
Ongoing spend
Bottled water
$156K - $312K per year
Wasteful. Value leaves the community.
Weeks to deploy
Sovereign Pure
Lower than current bottled spend
Community-owned. Assets stay.
51%
Indigenous ownership at every layer
870-1,610
Projected direct Indigenous jobs at network maturity
24,000L
Bulk flexitank supply backbone
Owners, not customers.
For government and funders
A partner that ends the cycle,
not another contract that renews it.
Sovereign Pure gives federal and provincial partners what decades of spending have not: safe water in weeks, community-owned assets instead of recurring invoices, measurable outcomes reported through live monitoring, and delivery aligned with Indigenous ownership and reconciliation commitments. Program funding becomes permanent community infrastructure.
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