Understanding our water supplies is vital for our health and wellbeing. While traditional water quality analyses require a slow and costly approach, Fluidion deploys automated chemical and microbiological monitoring in areas with impaired drinking water and at the Seine River 2024 Paris Olympics site, enhancing public health and environmental protection.
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Fluidion SAS acknowledges funding from the European Union’s H2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement no. 820954 (Digital Water City) and from the Paris Ile-de-France programme “Future en Seine”. Fluidion US Inc. acknowledges funding from the US National Science Foundation SBIR grant no. 1927079.
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D.E.A. is founder and shareholder of Fluidion US and Fluidion SAS, manufacturer of the e-Chem and ALERT instrumentation described in this article. He is also an author of several patents and patent applications related to ALERT and e-Chem technologies.
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Angelescu, D.E. Monitoring a planetary resource under threat. Nat Rev Chem 8, 561–563 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-024-00631-0
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