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Hello and welcome. I'm your host Peter Balland from Technicon. In this episode,

we look at the Aquarius project for the first time. Aquarius is an EU H-2020 project dedicated to

clean water. The consortium advances cleaner water by examining new methods of sampling and sensing for contaminants

and water that is going back into the earth.

Today we speak remotely with Anato Ehrlich from Quinterred Technologies in Vienna.

They are one of nine projects partners throughout Europe.

Thanks for joining us today.

Yeah, thanks for setting it up.

We can see the big picture in Aquarius is clean water, but your goals are actually quite specific.

What are you trying to do in Aquarius?

As you mentioned, the big picture in Aquarius is the clean water and the specific goals

are actually how can we monitor to get this clean water?

So it's a different concept once you say there's one way to get clean water, which would

be hands-on experience, so by developing a process to refine water that is dirty and get it

cleaner.

And then there's a different approach which would be monitoring the clean water process. And in the Aquarius project, we're talking about the monitoring.

So we want to make an analyzer that monitors the quality of the water.

And the way we do this is that we develop a spectrometer, a very compact spectrometer, which is also easy to use.

And with the spectrometer, we can actually target specific molecules, which give a good

indication of whether a process stream or whether water is actually clean or not.

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