Strategic investment scales Fracta’s artificial intelligence platform for aging water infrastructure Fracta (IH2O 2018) recently announced a $37 million strategic investment from Kurita Water Industries. We recently sat down with Takashi Kato, Fracta’s Founder and CEO, to discuss the company’s founding and new partnership with Kurita. Fracta uses machine learning and big data to optimize […]
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China is strengthening its commitment to the protection of the environment and water, air and soil quality. According to recent estimates, investment in environmental protection will reach €2.15 trillion over the next five years with a considerable amount of resources directed towards water stewardship. Investment is being matched by political support to develop and enforce […]
Deriving Value from Data, Analytics, and Paths to Markets By Richael Young, CEO & Co-Founder Mammoth Trading “We know more about the surface of Mars than we do about water use in our country.” Few lectures from college stand out in my memory, but I’ll never forget when my economics professor announced this startling fact. […]
The California Safe Drinking Water Data Challenge kicked off in last summer as a collaborative effort to leverage open-data to bring safe, clean drinking water to every Californian. While not a new problem, a confluence of factors, including California’s 2016 Open and Transparent Water Data act, heightened awareness of unsafe water via the crisis in […]
Imagine H2O and the Milken Institute convened a select group of California water policy experts and stakeholders at its 2017 Water Policy + Innovation Summit Water innovation can lead to more efficient, more resilient, and more equitable management of our water resources. However, innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum and smarter water management requires a […]