Fall 2025
Technologies to better manage water quality within water systems and enable smarter, faster decision-making
- Grand Prize: Geotek Water Solutions (Jos, Nigeria)
- Runner-up: Service ID (Fitchburg, Wisconsin, USA)
Spring 2025
- Sensors for biological organisms and disinfectant byproducts: Atkinson Lab, Princeton University (New Jersey, USA)
- Removal of organic contaminants from water: Nafura Advanced Technologies (Stoke-on-Trent, UK)
- “Lab on a chip” for water and wastewater applications: Segura Water (Oxford, UK)
Fall 2024
- Microplastics and nanoplastics detection: Lucendi, Inc. (California, USA)
- Microplastics and nanoplastics treatment and removal: PolyGone Systems (New Jersey, USA)
Spring 2024
- Water quality sensors for phosphate, ammonia and other nutrients non-destructive structural analysis of pressurized pipes: PAGE Technologies (Colorado, USA)
- Water quality sensors for hardness, scale and biofilm monitoring in pipe networks: No winner
Fall 2023
- PFAS destruction: Aquagga (Washington, USA)
- PFAS extraction/concentration: Searen (Ohio, USA)
- Non-invasive assessment of pressurized pipes: Pipesonic (Ontario, Canada, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
Spring 2023
• Electrochemical sensors to detect pharmaceutical pollutants in water: No winner
• Low-cost structural plastic materials for use in chlorinated water : No winner
Fall 2022
- Contactless water quality sensors: Meratch (Bratislava, Slovakia)
- In-situ water hardness monitoring: Atlas Sensor Technologies (El Paso, Texas)
Spring 2022
- Non-turbine energy harvesting: MIS7 (Westerbork, the Netherlands)
- Reducing operating expenses in waste management: Biovert Protein (Bangkok, Thailand)
Fall 2021
- Reducing operating expenses in aerobic wastewater treatment: CAVinTace (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Internet of Things-enabled water quality sensing: Anthony Dichiara (Seattle, Washington)
- Microbial control in distribution systems and buildings: Vienna Water Monitoring Solutions/ColiMinder (Vienna, Austria)
Spring 2021
- Reducing scale, corrosion and fouling for pipes, tanks, valves and other equipment: PANI/Ran Suckeveriene (Zemach, Israel)
Fall 2020
- Water quality sensing and/or remediating of heavy metals and industrial chemicals in water and wastewater: Fixed Earth Innovations (Saskatoon, Canada)
Spring 2020
- Sensors and enabling technologies for leak detection: SMART FLOW (Dublin, Ireland)
- Energy harvesting from small- and large-scale water networks: Pydro (Rostock, Germany)
Fall 2019
- Inline sensors for detecting water quality parameters: Verifi H2O (Montclair, New Jersey)
- Artificial intelligence for pipe networks and systems: Waterhound Futures (Sacramento, California)
Spring 2019
- Sensing microbiological organisms or disinfection byproducts: Burge Environmental Inc. (Tempe, Arizona)
- Detecting heavy metals (such as lead) and industrial chemicals in water and wastewater: ANDalyze (Houston, Texas)