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Waterscope Limited

WaterScope (UK) Smart, simple water testing for all.

Waterscope Limited is a UK company with status active founded in 2015 based in East of England.

CRN
09707638
Founded
2015
Age
10

Overview

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Legal name
WATERSCOPE LIMITED
Region
East of England
Registered address
82 MILL LANE
IMPINGTON
CAMBRIDGE
UNITED KINGDOM
CB24 9HS
Insolvency history
No

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

6 events
30 Apr
2027

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

11 Dec
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

27 Nov
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Jul
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

27 Nov
2024

Confirmation Statement With No Updates

Confirmation-statement

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Published 27 Nov 2024 10:03

29 Jul
2015

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Spinout profile

3 entries

Company description

No-for-profit social entreprenuer company making cheap water testing kits

WaterScope develops microscopes designed to test the bacterial content of water in under 6 hours, without the need for advanced training to use them.

Project impact

RAE Fellowship for Waterscope developments, £30k GCRF funding from University, supported £1M EPSRC funded open Open Instrumentation, competition wins include: EPOC Business Plan Competition, Cambridge University Entrepreneurs Competition, and Downing Enterprise Competition. Organised a successful field trial to Nyarugusu refugee camp, one of the largest refugee camps in the modern world, with our collaborator Oxfam, during which we obtained user data on our system. Nyarugusu camp, based in Tanzania, is home to over 150,000 refugees from Congo, Burundi and Rwanda, with Oxfam supplying the water from boreholes and shallow wells.

WaterScope
2017
WaterScope
2015
WaterScope
2015

Public funding

2 awards
First funded
2020
Funded years
2020, 2022
Age at first award
4 years

Projects

2022 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

WaterScope: developing an easy-to-use bacterial contamination field kit for use in low-middle income countries

1 Jan 2022 to 30 Jun 2023

Awarded
£124,629
Total cost £178,042

WaterScope is developing a digital, rapid, versatile, bacterial testing system for drinking water testing, that anyone can use, in any location. Globally, over 2.2 billion people lack access to a safe water source and more than 2,100 children are estimated to die each day from diarrheal diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria present in water; this is more...

2020 Knowledge Transfer Network Lead participant

A novel rapid, simple, bacterial test for drinking water quality in low-resource settings

1 Apr 2020 to 31 Dec 2020

Awarded
£61,330
Total cost £87,614

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Product types

Collaborative R&D Knowledge Transfer Network