Space technology saving lives
Technology used on early space missions is being revived by two Fife companies to provide clean water for 100,000 people in Pakistan.
Innovation
Innovation
£40m Water Breakthrough Challenge now open for entries
The first Water Breakthrough Challenge is now open.
Innovation
CREW-funded flood management and mitigate research by the James Hutton Institute was featured recently in The Guardian.
Highlight: Decentralised Wastewater Treatment System
In 2018-19, the Scottish Government funded Decentralised Wastewater Treatment System became operational and is now serving approximately 200 children and 20 members of staff at Berambadi primary school in the south Indian state of Karnataka. Deputy First Minister John Swinney attended an interactive stakeholder event at in Bangalore in November 2018.
Test, demonstrate and develop new products for the water sector
The Water Test Network (WTN) project will establish a transnational network of testing facilities which can be used by SMEs in North-West Europe (NWE) to test, demonstrate and develop new products for the water sector. In this way, new innovations will be developed and it will accelerate the time to market.