Take a horse to water and Hydrasure can gauge what it drinks

Biologist Emer Cooney established Hydrasure in Co Wicklow to bring to market a new monitoring device for the equine sector.

“I had worked as a horse-riding instructor and, with my biology background and my experience in the industry, I identified a problem whereby horse owners were having to use buckets to identify how much water their horses were drinking,” she said.

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