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The Business of Clean Water with Ed Quilty

Ed Quilty has been in the business of water for over 25 years. He started by cleaning fish poop out of tanks, and now owns Aquatic Informatics, a highly successful software company based in Vancouver which provides water management solutions to over 1,000 organizations across the globe.

Listen to how Ed grew his business from its grassroots beginnings to having over 200 employees.

Ed also speaks to the quality of water here in BC and in Canada, and highlights that we still have a long ways to go in terms of providing drinkable water to all Canadians.

Ed holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Victoria, completed four years of a PhD in hydro-informatics at the University of British Columbia, and completed the Entrepreneurial Masters Program at MIT.