{"id":948,"date":"2011-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-366\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:21","slug":"innovation-anthology-366","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2011\/01\/06\/innovation-anthology-366\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #366:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 366.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nKim Sturgess<\/b> is an engineer, entrepreneur, and among Canada\u2019s top one hundred women of influence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow she\u2019s putting her muscle behind her passion \u2013 and that\u2019s water.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAt the recent <b>InnoWest Conference<\/b> in Calgary, Kim Sturgess spoke about her experience as the founder and CEO of <b>Alberta WaterSmart. <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is a not-for profit organization dedicated to water management through better practices and technologies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThrough WaterSmart Kim has establish the <b>Alberta Water Portal <\/b>on the internet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd now she\u2019s trying her hand as inventor.   Her product is called a <b>\u201cwater press\u201d <\/b>and it\u2019s the size of a water bottle or go-cup.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nKIM STURGESS: <\/b><em> This started in August of 2006, actually, sitting by the Athabasca River at my campsite saying, I\u2019d really like to drink this water out of the tap here at the campsite rather than drinking out of these horrific plastic water bottles.  But  you know, how do I do that.? I\u2019m not comfortable necessarily with the quality of the water even though they\u2019ve declared it clean.   So I was looking at my coffee  press and came up with the idea of actually  just pressing the water through a filter.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\nKim Sturgess says she has spent the last two years developing and refining the water press, and expects to launch the product early in 2011.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><b><br \/>\nLearn more at Innovation Anthology.com<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>\nI\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02011-01-06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Kim Sturgess<\/b> is an engineer, entrepreneur, and among Canada\u2019s top one hundred women of influence.   Now she\u2019s putting her muscle behind her passion \u2013 and that\u2019s water.    At the recent <b>InnoWest Conference<\/b> in Calgary, Kim Sturgess spoke about her experience as the founder and CEO of <b>Alberta WaterSmart.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-water","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1-366kim_sturgess.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}