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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.
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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.
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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.
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WaterScope: developing an easy-to-use bacterial contamination field kit for use in low-middle income countries
1 Jan 2022 to 30 Jun 2023
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...
A novel rapid, simple, bacterial test for drinking water quality in low-resource settings
1 Apr 2020 to 31 Dec 2020
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