A new website dedicated to collaboration and knowledge-sharing in the water sector has been launched by technology consultancy Isle. The Water Action Platform, which is sponsored by leading water industry partners, pools experience and expertise from utilities around the world. It started as a response to Covid19 but is now encompassing a much wider range of topics.
This dynamic platform will catalyse experiences within the global water network to foster responses to Covid-19, at scale, to protect lives and livelihoods. The Water Action Platform is open to all and will be especially useful to water utilities, technology companies, global industry groups, governments and financial and academic institutions.
Six key learnings from the Water Action Platform
- Collaboration identifies 95 technologies addressing Covid-19 issues
- UK nanopore technology offers early virus detection potential
- Sewage epidemiology is increasingly valuable
- Two factors impact on the cost of implementing wastewater surveillance
- Utilities face huge revenue losses due to Covid-19
- Water vending machines provide affordable supplies
Source: Water Active
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