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Hello and welcome. I'm your host, Peter Ballant from Technicon. The Aquarius

project is all about clean water. In the last two podcasts, we learned that the main goal in this

effort was to develop new technologies to look for contaminants in water at the source, not in a lab.

In this way, constant monitoring can take place online and inline rather than remotely.

In today's episode, we speak with Yup Vandabruca from project partner KWR.

KWR is a research institute in the Netherlands, serving, among others, the Dutch drinking water utilities.

UP and his team are currently in the process of evaluating the sensor that has come out of Aquarius.

And you're basically putting the prototype to the test.

Welcome to the podcast, and thanks for joining us today.

You're welcome.

Anyone who looks at the Aquarius project website

could see that this project is about clean water,

but clean water for whom?

That's a good question.

If we look at the Aquarius project,

I think there's a number of different types of interested parties in clean water. So the sensor that Aquarius is ultimately striving to develop

is a sensor that can detect oil in water. And there's a number of different, I would say,

end users for this product. So on the one hand, and you can also see that when you look at the parties involved in the project.

So oil and water is, of course, something that is relevant for industrial companies that are active in the oil sector.

So when oil is produced or when you have a refinery, a lot of water is used in the process of producing the oil, of extracting it from the ground or making refined products.

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