Mounce Hydrosmart Ltd are excited to have been named as a partner to the University of Sheffield as one of 20 finalist projects for Discovery 2. Twenty innovative projects from sectors including aerospace, agriculture and tech will each receive £100,000 to test and develop their solutions, with up to ten finalists each receiving a further £550,000 in April 2027 to take them further. As finalists, over the next 7 months the project team will receive financial support and exper

A winner of the first Water Discovery Challenge 1 competition, the project is using Drinking Water Inspectorate incident reports submitted by water companies to unlock historical learning and support better water quality incident response. In this guest blog the team reflects on: The mentorship support they received through the Discovery programme to develop their solution Working with the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) to strengthen the evidence base behind the project N

Mounce, S.R., Mounce, R. B. and Boxall, J.B. (2025). AI-Augmented Water Quality Event Response: The Role of Generative Models for Decision Support. Water, 17 (22), 3260, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.3390/w17223260 (Special Edition in Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Water Quality Monitoring: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/H5KB4LPI3Y )

The Computing and Control in the Water Industry Conference 2025 , hosted by The University of Sheffield, was an excellent and informative event bringing together an international community of academics and practitioners working in the field of urban water systems. Dr. Steve Mounce presented a paper on the Ofwat Discovery project ACQUIRE for harnessing the power of AI in addressing drinking water quality incidents and improving response plans for better water management. You c

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