10 companies making waves in water innovation The data on water scarcity continues to be sobering, and shortages increasingly are linked to both natural and human-made causes. By 2025, 1.8 billion people will live in regions that face “absolute water scarcity,” reports the United Nations. Stemming the losses and re-diverting the flow to stressed regions […]
200 pairs of ears and eyes in the Friesland mains network Vitens to install first major smart drinking water network in the world Zwolle, 2 November 2015 – Vitens is the first drinking water utility company in the world to install a large-scale smart drinking water mains network. In order to achieve this, the 9,000 […]
SW4EU recognized with an award in the category ‘Water performance initiative of the year 2014’ The European research project Smartwater4Europe has been awarded a distinction in the category ‘Water performance initiative of the year’ of the 2014 Global Water Awards. The winner of the category was the Indian water company of Dehli, Delhi Jal Board’s, […]
Research to tackle ‘grand challenges’ for water sector gets £3.9m boost A new £3.9million research project has been awarded to ensure the UK maintains a clean, sustainable water supply for the future. The project – led by the University of Sheffield – will help the UK water sector tackle key challenges, including population growth, ageing […]
Vitens is nominated for a Aquatech Innovation Award 2015 in the category ‘Not-yet-to-market’ with CAGIS: Real-time Customer Alert GIS, Vitens. CAGIS is a geographical operations dashboard displaying customer interactions (phone calls, tweets) and sensor alerts used by the operations department to identify events as pipe leaks and water quality problems much faster, ideally before a […]
Network of online sensors monitors Burgos water quality 24/7. The city of Burgos is one of four demonstration locations in the SW4EU project. One of the focus areas in the Burgos demonstration site is the detection of anomalies in water quality and integration of this information with other data streams into the water management solution […]
Acciona Agua has validated the nano::station from s::can at its R&D facilities in El Prat del Llobregat. Different experiments to assess the response of s::can sensors to sudden changes of water quality were carried out by spiking different substances into the medium. As a result, nano::station presented a rapid response to change of salinity, turbidity […]
This future has a TWIST in the tale! Matt Hawkins explains how big data and neuroscience will revolutionise the water industry Technology is advancing faster than ever and our lives are quickly becoming entwined with our devices. Take smartphones for example, we all have one. Whilst sat on our desks they are soaking up data […]
Thames Water uses new technology to keep an eye on 82-year-old Reading water main The company is using the market-leading Syrinix Trunkminder technology to keep a close eye on the 20-inch cast iron pipe, which would cause major flooding and knock out supplies for thousands of people if it cracks. Thames Water is installing new […]
Event Lab – A high density sensor network Optiqua EventLab is based on Optiqua’s awarded and patented Lab-on-Chip sensor technology. The technology measures refractive index changes of the water matrix induced by a contaminant, without the use of chemicals or other consumables. EventLab sensors respond to the entire spectrum of possible chemical contaminants at ppm […]
