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The Brutal Truth About Groundwater No One Wants to Hear (w. Christian Montag - iFlux)
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How do you manage an aquifer nobody can see, and what changes when iFlux measures how its groundwater moves? iFlux is a Belgian company that measures how groundwater moves: its speed, its direction, and how much contamination travels with it. Most tools only give snapshots, a water table level here, a nitrate concentration there, while groundwater flows anywhere from 2 centimeters to 2 meters a day. So I sat down with its CEO to find out what measuring that movement changes. Christian Montag joined iFlux in 2023 as operations director, coming from...
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that's kind of like the holy grail
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River flows one to two meters per second. The groundwater might flow anywhere from two centimeters to two meters per day. Measuring flux in real time with high accuracy,
that's kind of like the holy grail of groundwater measurements. We built this sensor and we can measure flux with it in real time, it's super cool, right?
And then people are like, yeah, that is super cool. Like congratulations. And then we just looked at each other. When did you first give me this advice, Anton?
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