Water Innovation Prize goes to startups targeting methane and wastewater

Water Innovation Prize goes to startups targeting methane and wastewater
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  • Symbrosia co-founder and CEO Alexia Akbay, second from left, and co-founder and CTO Jonathan Simonds, third from right, pose with members of MIT's Water Club following the MIT Water Innovation Prize Thursday.
  • A startup with a cheap technology for purifying textile wastewater and another with a system to help reduce methane emissions from cattle were named co-winners of the MIT Water Innovation Prize on Thursday.
  • The founders of both the seaweed-producing startup Symbrosia and the textile wastewater purification startup SiPure said they were happy to split the winnings.
  • Each year, student-led finalist teams from around the country and, increasingly, the world, come to MIT's campus to pitch their water -related innovations.


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