# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000933972
**File Stem:** 0001654954-26-004906
**Filing Date:** 2026-5
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001654954-26-004906.hdr.sgml**: 20260514

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001654954-26-004906

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 18

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20260514

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Results of Operations and Financial Condition

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260514

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260514

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** 374Water Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000933972
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** MOTORS & GENERATORS [3621]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 04 Manufacturing
- **EIN:** 880271109
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-41420
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26980049

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 701 W. MAIN STREET
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 410
- **CITY:** DURHAM
- **STATE:** NC
- **ZIP:** 27701
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 440-609-9677

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 3710 SHANNON RD #51877
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 410
- **CITY:** DURHAM
- **STATE:** NC
- **ZIP:** 27717

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** POWERVERDE, INC.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20080820

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** VYREX CORP
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19951206

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-K**

**CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF**

**THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): **<u>May 14, 2026</u>**

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| **374WATER INC.** |
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**<u>100 Southcenter Court, Suite 200 Morrisville, NC 27560</u>**

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)(Zip Code)

**<u>(440) 601-9677</u>**

(Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

**<u>N/A</u>**

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading** <br>**Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange on which** <br>**registered** |
| Common Stock, par value $0.0001 | SCWO | The Nasdaq Capital Market LLC |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR §240.12b-2).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

**Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition.**

On May 14, 2026, 374Water Inc. (the "***Company***") issued a press release (the "***Press Release***") reporting its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, and certain other business information and updates. A copy of the Press Release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K (this "***Current Report***") and incorporated by reference herein.

The information furnished in Item 2.02 of this Current Report, including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "***Exchange Act***"), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing made by the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

**Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.**

**(d) Exhibits**

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| **Exhibit No.** | **Description** |
| [99.1](scwo_ex991.htm) | [Press Release of 374Water Inc., dated May 14, 2026.](scwo_ex991.htm) |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL)  |

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**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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| Dated: May 14, 2026  | **374WATER INC.** | **374WATER INC.** |
|  | By: | /s/ Danny Bogar |
|  | Name: | Danny Bogar |
|  | Title: | President and Chief Executive Officer |

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## Exhibit 99.1

**EXHIBIT 99.1**

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**374Water Reports First Quarter 2026 Financial Results; Gross Margins Expands Year-Over-Year as Company Advances Contracted Deployments, Waste Destruction Services Platform, and Strategic Partnerships**

*Recurring Revenue Platform Takes Shape as Contracted Operations Scale Across Municipal, Federal, and Industrial Markets*

**MORRISVILLE, NC / ACCESS Newswire / May 14, 2026 /** 374Water Inc. (NASDAQ: SCWO) ("374Water" or the "Company"), a cleantech environmental services company deploying supercritical water oxidation technology for the destruction of organic waste with its proprietary AirSCWO<sup>TM</sup> technology, today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2026. The Company's Waste Destruction Services ("WDS") platform continued to scale, with gross margins expanding 38 percentage points year-over-year, and contracted deployments advancing across multiple market segments.

Anchored by the Company's purchase order with the City of Olathe, Kansas and Garney Construction — a national leader in water and wastewater infrastructure — 374Water enters the second quarter of 2026 with growing momentum around commercial partnerships, operational execution, and higher gross margins. The Company also strengthened its balance sheet by adding $800,000 of financing as of March 31<sup>st</sup>, 2026, with an additional $1.1M in financing as of the date of this release.

"The first quarter of 2026 has been another inflection point for 374Water," said Brad Meyers, Chief Operating Officer of 374Water. "Our new leadership team, including the Board of Directors, is positioning this Company to meet the extensive demand for AirSCWO from several key market segments.

"We are delivering dramatically improved gross margins, our mobile AirSCWO system has arrived in Minnesota for its inaugural campaign with the City of St. Cloud, and we continue executing in lockstep with Orange County Sanitation District ("OC San") and the City of Orlando.

"We are scaling our Waste Destruction Services facility with additional tankage and infrastructure, and expect to showcase the operations later this year."

"Opportunities like the one in front of us are rare," said Sunny Viswanathan VP Solutions for 374Water. "The U.S. biosolids management market exceeds $2 billion, and with increasing regulations and growing awareness of the risks associated with traditional disposal methods, we believe market dynamics are steadily shifting municipalities toward destruction-based solutions. This trend strongly positions 374Water at the center of that transition. I've spent my entire career in water, wastewater and biosolids, and I've never seen this level of pent-up demand focused on a single company and solution. It's an exciting time, and we are ready for what's ahead."

**First Quarter 2026 Business & Financial Highlights**

**Operational Highlights**

·  **<u>Appointed</u>** Danny Bogar as CEO and strengthened the Board of Directors by adding directors Brad Freels, Chuck Weiser, and Stephen McKnight, who join Jim Pawloski and 374Water Co-Founder Marc Deshusses. Rick Davis was subsequently added to the Board of Directors during the interim reporting period.

·  **<u>Signed</u>** a 5-year agreement with the City of Orlando, FL to build out the Company's Waste Destruction Services facility. The agreement includes two 5-year extensions.

·  **<u>Received</u>** the purchase order and associated milestone payment of $2.2M from Garney Construction for the City of Olathe sale and services contract. The total contract is valued at more than $4.5M.

·  **<u>Delivered</u>** the mobile AirSCWO system to St. Cloud, MN for a six-month campaign destroying PFAS-laden biosolids and other PFAS waste streams.

·  **<u>Released</u>** destruction results from U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Innovation Unit testing conducted with the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, Arcadis, and Clean Earth. Third-party lab analyses showed AirSCWO consistently destroyed PFAS well beyond project targets, and often in excess of 99.9%.

**Financial Highlights for Q1 2026 Compared to Q1 2025**

· **Revenue:** $551,155 vs. $543,100 in Q1 2025

· **Gross Margin:** $348,412 (63%) vs. $138,283 (25%) in Q1 2025 — a 38-percentage-point improvement year-over-year

· **Net Loss:** $(4,571,623) vs. $(3,698,414) in Q1 2025, reflecting continued investment in commercial infrastructure and certain non-recurring items: $184,000 in capitalized offering costs expensed upon the Company's strategic shift to convertible debt financing and $158,000 in Delaware franchise tax related to an increase in the number of authorized shares of common stock.

**Overhead Reduction and Cash Burn:** Cash used in operating activities was $(2,508,341) vs. $(3,494,477) in Q1 2025 — a 28% improvement in operating cash efficiency. Since its leadership transition in March 2026, the Company has taken decisive actions to improve operational efficiency, streamline overhead, and focus resources on near-term commercial opportunities.

**Building the Platform for Waste Destruction Services**

374Water is scaling its recurring revenue platform to better serve municipal, federal, and industrial markets, with AirSCWO positioned as the end-of-pipe solution for PFAS treatment chains.

**Waste Destruction Services Facility:** We believe Waste Destruction Services ("WDS") is the future of PFAS destruction and wastewater treatment. Since late 2024, the Company has been operating on-site at the City of Orlando's Iron Bridge Water Reclamation Facility, destroying biosolids, AFFF, ion exchange resin, and foam fractionate under contracted service arrangements. We have more recently begun the buildout of a dedicated WDS facility at the same location.

The Company's WDS facility is designed as an industrial-grade, multi-waste receiving and destruction hub with more than 80,000 gallons of tank storage. The current facility buildout, now underway, converts that operational foundation into a permanent, scalable infrastructure asset.

We expect initial operations to generate between $100,000 to $200,000 in monthly revenue, increasing to more than $400,000 monthly by late 2027, with 374Water's initial investment.

The WDS facility is designed for modular expansion. Active discussions with potential co-investment partners are underway regarding expanding the facility and capacity to increase our revenue potential from $5M ARR to more than $15M ARR by adding additional modular AirSCWO platforms. These partners could bring not only capital but potentially operational synergies and contracted inbound waste volumes of foam fractionate, reverse osmosis brine, activated carbon, and ion exchange.

The Orlando WDS hub — anchored by a long-term municipal partnership — represents 374Water's scalable deployment model. The Company intends to replicate this structure across additional geographies as contracted demand and strategic partnerships develop.

**City of Orlando Demonstration:** During Q1 2026, 374Water successfully completed its full-scale demonstration at Orlando's Iron Bridge Regional Water Reclamation Facility, generating approximately $482,000 in service revenue and demonstrating its commercial proposition across the municipal wastewater sector.

**Modular AirSCWO Platform:** We're moving – and thinking – outside the box. The modular AirSCWO architecture is a core component of the Company's innovative product offering and scalable platform. By uncoupling the system into discrete sub-systems — pumps, reactor, heat capture, and others — 374Water has improved manufacturing, simplified field maintenance and operations, and enabled capacity to be added incrementally at any deployment site. Customers can right-size an initial installation and scale up through additional modules as contracted volume grows, potentially reducing capital barriers to entry and accelerating time-to-revenue for new deployments.

**Mobile AirSCWO System:** The Company's next-generation mobile AirSCWO system — designed for rapid on-site deployment — has arrived in Minnesota for its inaugural six-month service campaign with the City of St. Cloud. We expect the system will serve as a key component of 374Water's recurring service revenue model.

**OC San Equipment Contract:** The AirSCWO 6 system designed for OC San —the third largest wastewater agency on the West Coast — has met continuous run-time factory acceptance test requirements and continues toward final volume milestone completion. OC San's selection of AirSCWO represents the platform's commercial and operational readiness at institutional scale.

Biosolids and slurry (liquid and solid mixture) processing has long been the challenge for SCWO technologies. 374Water has established a notable advantage within the industry and among competitors with this capability being one of our relative strengths. While competitors and other companies avoid slurry waste streams, 374Water is unlocking massive markets and offering a truly unique value proposition.

**Department of Defense PFAS Destruction Program:** 374Water's AirSCWO technology has achieved independently validated destruction and removal efficiency of greater than 99.9% across multiple PFAS-impacted waste streams through the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit ("DIU") and Environmental Security Technology Certification Program ("ESTCP") initiative. Results were independently verified by Arcadis, a global leader in environmental engineering, and publicly presented at the DoD Applied Innovation Workshop in March 2026. The Company was also awarded a subcontract with to support the U.S. Air Force in addressing PFAS contamination at firefighter training areas across military installations nationwide.

**Update on Strategic Priorities for 2026** 

In March, under our new management team, we announced our strategic priorities for 2026. In just 45 days we have made material progress towards each of these objectives.

· The contracted AirSCWO 6 system for OC San in Fountain Valley, CA has met continuous run-time factory acceptance test requirements and continues toward final volume milestone completion. Engineering improvements to system design and operational performance are being incorporated ahead of deployment.

· Infrastructure buildout of the WDS facility at the City of Orlando's Iron Bridge Facility is underway. Receiving and handling systems, tankage, and AirSCWO integration are progressing toward full-scale operations, expected later this year. The facility continues to accept and destroy contracted PFAS waste streams during buildout.

· The mobile AirSCWO system has been deployed to St. Cloud, MN under a contracted six-month service campaign, destroying PFAS-laden biosolids and other PFAS waste streams for the city.

· Engineering and manufacturing teams are building the next-generation AirSCWO system for contracted delivery to Olathe, KS in partnership with Garney Construction — designed for higher-volume slurry and liquid waste processing at industrial scale.

· Management is actively engaged with strategic partners — industrial operators, infrastructure companies, and environmental services platforms — to structure WDS partnerships across targeted verticals and geographic markets.

**Strategic Partnerships & Capital Raise**

374Water's growth strategy is built around strategic partnerships with established industrial and infrastructure operators — companies with scale, commercial networks, and process waste streams that are natural fits for contracted AirSCWO destruction services. We expect these partners bring pipeline access, operational infrastructure, and co-investment capacity that accelerates deployment far beyond what organic capital formation alone can support.

While many of these operators offer an array of entrenched treatment technologies to critical markets, they often fall well short of destruction, achieving only concentration and removal of toxins and contaminants. This leaves continuing and contingent liabilities for years to come.

Management is in active discussions with multiple parties at both the corporate and project levels, structured around long-term contractual alignment.

"We see clear demand from the market, and others see it as well," said Howard Teicher, VP of Government for 374Water. "We have several interested partners who want to help bring AirSCWO to market, create strong commercial pathways, and provide supporting operations for our projects and technology.

"We are heavily engaged in structuring a partnership to unlock tremendous value and accelerate our scale-up."

"We are building a recurring revenue platform with contracted deployments, improving margins, and a growing roster of strategic partners who understand the scale of the PFAS destruction opportunity," said Danny Bogar, President and CEO of 374Water. "Industrial and infrastructure operators are coming to the table because they see what we already know: AirSCWO is not a future technology. It is operating today, destroying waste under contract, and ready to scale."

**About 374Water**

374Water Inc. (NASDAQ: SCWO) is a cleantech and environmental services company developing supercritical water oxidation technology for the destruction of organic waste streams within the industrial, municipal, and federal markets. 374Water's AirSCWO™ technology is designed to efficiently destroy and mineralize a broad spectrum of nonhazardous and hazardous organic wastes, producing safe dischargeable water streams, safe mineral effluent, safe vent gas, and recoverable heat energy. 374Water's AirSCWO technology has the potential to assist its customers to meet discharge requirements, reduce or eliminate disposal costs, remove bottlenecks, and reduce litigation and other risks. 374Water continues to be a leader in innovative waste treatment solutions, dedicated to creating a greener future and eradicating harmful pollutants. Learn more by visiting www.374water.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

**Forward-Looking Statements**

Certain statements in this communication are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "confidence," "could," "design," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "predict," "project," "potential," or other comparable terminology are intended to identify forward-looking statements. 374Water has based these forward-looking statements on its current expectations, assumptions, estimates, beliefs, and projections. While 374Water believes these expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections are reasonable, such forward-looking statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond 374Water's control. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including those discussed under "Risk Factors" in 374Water's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, and in 374Water's subsequent filings and reports with the SEC. The forward-looking statements herein are made only as of the date they were first issued, and unless otherwise required by laws, 374Water disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

**Investor Relations Contact**

**Belton Copp**

Vice President

Direct: 401-419-1545

Belton.Copp@374water.com

www.374Water.com

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| **374Water Inc. and Subsidiaries** |
| **Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets** |
| **March 31, 2026 (Unaudited) and December 31, 2025** |

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**374Water Inc. and Subsidiaries** 

**Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations** 

**For the Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 and 2025** 

**(Unaudited)**

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| **374WaterInc. and Subsidiaries** |
| **Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows** |
| **For the Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 and 2025**<br> **(Unaudited)** |

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