{"id":77461,"date":"2026-08-16T04:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/university-spinout-to-launch-water-quality-app-for-uk-and-us-waters\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T04:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:55:19","slug":"university-spinout-to-launch-water-quality-app-for-uk-and-us-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/university-spinout-to-launch-water-quality-app-for-uk-and-us-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"University spinout to launch water quality app for UK and US waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Molendotech will collate data from daily tests that detect E coli and other bacteria amid reports of swimmers falling ill<\/p>\n<p>A UK university spinout behind a rapid bacterial water testing kit is planning to launch live water quality maps, as scores of beachgoers report falling ill after swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Molendotech, a spinout from the University of Plymouth, sells a portable test that detects <em>E coli<\/em> and other bacteria in water and delivers results on the spot, without waiting for days to get laboratory results.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/aug\/16\/plymouth-university-spinout-water-quality-app-uk-us-waters-molendotech-e-coli\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molendotech will collate data from daily tests that detect E coli and other bacteria amid reports of swimmers falling ill A UK university spinout behind a rapid bacterial water testing kit is planning to launch live water quality maps, as scores of beachgoers report falling ill after swimming. Molendotech, a spinout from the University of &#8230; <a title=\"University spinout to launch water quality app for UK and US waters\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/university-spinout-to-launch-water-quality-app-for-uk-and-us-waters\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about University spinout to launch water quality app for UK and US waters\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}