Imagine H2O announced its selection of 12 startups to advance to the 8th annual Accelerator Program, including Acoustic Sensing Technology (UK), AquaSeca, Arable Labs, EMAGIN, Flo Techologies, FREDSense, Hydromodel Host (Spain), Lotic Labs, PlutoAI, Sutro, Triple Bottom Line Enterprises (Ethiopia) and Utilis (Israel). They will join the organization’s growing portfolio of 70 alumni companies, which represent over $1 in every $10 of early-stage investment in the water sector. Over 180 startups from 20 countries registered for the Challenge. The finalists will be honored at Imagine H2O’s WaterGala ‘17 on March 15 in San Francisco, CA, where the organization will announce the Challenge’s overall winner.