Our mission
Our mission is to secure clean water to empower the bottom billion of the world's population.
Who we are
WaterScope, which was founded in 2015, is a not-for-profit impact-defined company based in Cambridge.
We formed after participating in the Centre for Global Equality Development i-Teams programme, a project that involved an interdisciplinary group of academics investigating the cost of effective methods for testing water quality in the developing world.
Since then, we have gone on to win awards and funding to develop and refine our technology and create social impact with our fast and inexpensive water testing methods. By 2021, we aim to be a self-sustaining business working internationally to bring safe drinking water to rural and urban settings in developing countries.
Our founding team is comprised of biologists, physicists, material scientists and engineers, which means that each unique skill-sets contributes different perspectives to achieve our goal.
Recognition
We are very proud to have been awarded a series of grants, prizes and awards in recent years from the likes of the University of Cambridge, as well as receiving acknowledgements from organisations such as Cambridge TV, Fast Company and Labiotech.
- 3D printing of our OpenScope on 3ders.org
- Labiotech.eu's article on the cost-effectiveness of WaterScope
- Fast Company's article on the flexibility of WaterScope in the field
- WaterScope on Cambridge TV
- Founders, Alexander Patto and Tianheng Zhao, interviewed by Cambridge TV
- The Open-Flexure microscope in Physics World article on bringing open source hardware to the developing world
The team
University of Cambridge.
University of Cambridge.
University of Cambridge
Advisory board
Over 20 years of start-up experience, and a mentor in the Ignite programme.
Bringing connections in the humanitarian sector.
Working to collate medical records in the developing world with fingerprints.