(MILWAUKEE, Wis. — August 13, 2024 — Water Resources Council Release) — PAGE Technologies, a Boulder, Colorado-based water and soil monitoring platform, has won the Water Resources Council’s Spring 2024 Tech Challenge.
The Tech Challenge connects water innovators with leading water technology companies to foster potential partnerships and help raise awareness of new ideas and technologies in the industry. Themes and winners are selected by challenge sponsors AO Smith Corporation, Badger Meter, and Watts Water Technologies. This session's challenge called for a water quality sensor solution.
Leveraging research from the University of Colorado Boulder and University of California, Berkeley, PAGE Technologies offers an affordable, all-in-one chemical monitoring platform. The compact system continuously and instantly measures critical parameters such as pH, nutrient concentrations, salinity, and other analytes in aqueous environments. Using scalable printing technology, they produce sensor arrays that are over 100 times more cost-effective than competitive products. The company's mission is to disseminate its technology worldwide to help disadvantaged communities and promote sustainable practices to build climate resilience in a variety of markets.
“With water challenges growing around the world, the search for water technology solutions is crucial,” said Karen Frost, vice president of economic development and innovation for the Water Council. “We're proud to showcase new innovations such as PAGE technology to the water technology sector and local communities through the Tech Challenge.”
Since launching the Tech Challenge in 2019, the Water Council has awarded $190,000 in funding to 19 innovators across nine countries.
The Water Council (TWC) is a global hub working to solve critical water challenges by driving innovation in freshwater technologies and advancing water stewardship. Built on more than a century of innovation, TWC is headquartered at the Global Water Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, and has formed one of the most concentrated and mature water technology clusters in the world. Recognizing the need for smarter, more sustainable water use around the world, TWC advances water stewardship as a natural complement to water innovation in efforts to protect freshwater resources in the Midwest and around the world.
