AdvanceH2O, an award winning venture, develops next-generation monitoring & data informatics platforms for water treatment, from the smallest individual systems to the largest utility scale plants. Our primarily mission is to help water managers worldwide avert environmental and health calamities resulting from inefficient water treatment practices. Simultaneously in the process, AdvanceH2O will help satisfy priority customer cost needs and add differentiating value by catalyzing the following:

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1. “Predict process upsets" and thereby “prevent operational failures" to avoid regulatory violations and exorbitant fines ($30K+ per day in some cases).

2. Reduce energy and chemical demands, ultimately by 60%+ and 95%+ respectively.

3. Optimize monitoring equipment such as sensors and simplify onerous data analytics.

4. Reduce green house gas emissions by over 90%.

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Events such as the Flint Water Crisis and the Legionnaire’s Disease outbreak in the Bronx, NY were all avoidable had more sophisticated monitoring and data analytics programs been in place. Moreover, according to the EPA, there are thousands of outstanding regulatory violations, and $700BN+ will be needed for US water infrastructure improvements ($20TN globally). The combination of increasing EPA stringency and all-time high water demands has been leading to debilitating resource costs such as that for energy and chemicals. For example, US water treatment already accounts for 4-6% of total annual national electricity consumption, and this energy footprint could double in 5-10 years (and has already doubled for some of our major water utility partners).

Our team and transformative solutions reflect nearly 20 years of expertise in developing unique solutions to overcome these challenges. Collectively, our team's awards include PowerbridgeNY/NYSERDA, Tamer Fund for Social Ventures, Columbia Venture Competition, Cleantech Open, MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, NSF Carrier Award, and NSF I-Corps.