innovation as connecting the dots


from the article:
H20’s founder, Frédéric Dugré, got into the water business after being shocked by the Walkerton, Ont., e-coli contamination tragedy that killed six people two decades ago. The then-recent Laval University mechanical engineering graduate said he was facing bleak prospects in the mining industry as bullion prices sank to a 28-year-low.

“I thought if it’s not gold, it might be blue gold,” Dugré, 47, recalled by phone in a recent interview. “I heard indeed what happened on the radio about Walkerton and said, ‘Oh my god, how can this happen in Canada?’”

Frédéric Dugré:
I found out that membrane filtration was used to filter and concentrate maple sap. It’s pretty nasty with a lot of sugars, sticky, a lot of organics—bacteria—and I thought: If we can do this, we certainly can do it for surface water and drinking water and filter it.*


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