The Water Council (TWC) announced that it has opened its fall Tech Challenge, where participants compete to solve water sector challenges for a prize of up to $10,000 and a chance for company partnerships.
This fall session includes three topics, along with a request for information about solutions addressing phosphorus loads.
This session’s topics, selected by the program’s sponors A. O. Smith Corporation, Badger meter and Watts Water Technologies, are:
- Destruction and treatment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water at facility or point-of-use scale
- PFAS detection in drinking water at facility or point-of-use scale
- Non-destructive structural analysis of pressurized pipes
The semi-annual Tech Challenge is open to anyone with a novel solution for the selected topics, including researchers, individuals, entrepreneurs, startups and established companies. This session’s topics, selected by program sponsors A. O. Smith Corporation, Badger Meter and Watts Water Technologies, are:
Tech Challenge participants compete for a prize of up to $10,000 and, more importantly, the chance to get their innovation in front of leading water technology companies with the potential for further partnership down the road. All finalists present directly to research and development representatives from the sponsor companies.
Also this fall, The Water Council is conducting a request for information (RFI) on behalf of member Green Lake Association, a nonprofit safeguarding Big Green Lake, Wisconsin’s deepest natural inland lake. The association seeks effective and proven technologies, materials, systems or engineered solutions for addressing excessive phosphorus and duckweed loading.
Tech Challenge applications and responses to the RFI are due November 5. More information is available at thewatercouncil.com/TechChallenge.
“We are excited to address three challenge topics this session, including problems as widespread as PFAS detection and destruction,” said Karen Frost, The Water Council vice president of economic development and innovation. “And we are pleased to support our member seeking to solve the persistent problem of phosphorus overloading. We know many innovators, including some of our members, are working on phosphorus solutions and we look forward to helping Green Lake Association discover them.”
